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Project Management Step By Step

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Project Management Step By Step

How to plan and manage a highly successful project

Pearson Business,

15 min read
8 take-aways
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What's inside?

You need specific management skills to complete any project successfully.

Editorial Rating

8

Qualities

  • Applicable
  • Well Structured
  • For Beginners

Recommendation

A project is an undertaking with a clear endpoint. When you start one, advises consultant Richard Newton, you need to know its goal and how to get there. A project can be as straightforward as cooking for a dinner party or as complex as launching a business. As promised in the book’s title, Newton provides a step-by-step process that will help you successfully conclude a project within a prescribed time frame and on budget.  

Summary

People launching professional careers should gain basic project management skills.

Project management has its own academic qualifications, technical jargon, schools, and strategies. A specialized project management approach can be useful and even necessary for complex projects with multiple elements – whether you’re launching a rocket into space or launching a company.

In such projects, countless details can go wrong, impeding a successful conclusion, and the stakes can be high. Such projects inevitably require advanced technical project management knowledge and skills. However, for most projects – even something fairly elaborate – you usually need only the essentials to succeed. 

Projects emerge in stages and with multiple dimensions, including scope, quality, and risk.

A project is an undertaking, such as producing a conference or making a movie, with a specific end date. While planting a tree next to a parking lot is a project, people generally apply the concept of project management to more complex undertakings. Professional project management is the way to make sure you can complete a project...

About the Author

Consulting program director Richard Newton has published 17 professional books and developed the award-winning interactive project management game Unlock: Project Management.

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