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Oct 20, 2015 this reference book provides an overview of the frameworks and approaches to project management techniques. Book description mcgrawhill education europe, united states, 2004. The best free project management resources azendoo. Ive read dozens of project management books and was responsible for a chapter in the pmbok 5th edition, but i still havent seen a good it or website. Cookis a quickhitting, managers who can bring projects in on time, under budget, and within specs are among the most valuable and marketable in todays project driven environment.
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Regular status meetings and a report of progress against the expected target dates with a projection to the end of the project is a bare minimum for control. As a project management professional, juana clark craig, pmp, has over twentyfive years of project management experience working for fortune 500 corporations. Oct 28, 2008 and if youre studying for the project management institutes project management professional certification exam, you can rest easy knowing that this book is aligned with the guide thats the basis for the exam. Get your projects done without having a masters degree in project managementthere is no shortage of books on project management, yet most of those guides are weighed down with tiresome project management speak and heavy process. Conduct monthly project management meetings to share program management tools e. Bondale, pmp, pmirmp has worked for over thirteen years in the project management domain with a focus on technology and change management. Oct 20, 2004 just enough project management written by globally renowned project management authority curtis r. The fast forward mba in project management, 4th edition, by. Project management lite just enough to get the job done. Just enough project management and millions of other books are available for amazon kindle.
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