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Building on your basic project management skills, this book will give you powerful new skills, in strategic planning, dealing with the clients, executives & other stakeholders, estimating, risk management and status reporting. See real life examples of all the techniques being applied. Our practical project management books are rich in real world detail. Read the actual conversations where the PM asks the executive what he wants from the project. You read how the PM learns to ask the right questions to define the project scope and success. Then you read the interviews with the other managers involved and learn how to ask the right questions to gather all their requirements. Then you work with your team to estimate cost and hours of work so you can schedule in MS Project(R) or Gantter(R) and you see every click and printout. Last you present your plan and schedule and read as about the PM answering the kind of questions executives ask. Last to track the project through several weeks, entering actual date from your team and present the results in a status report. You master practical project management techniques by doing them yourself in each of the assignments. Planning - You learn how to assess a project situation and ask the right questions of management to clearly define what they want (the scope). You practice asking the right questions of management (role played by your instructor) on a case study project . Work Breakdown & Estimating - With the scope defined, you learn how to work with your team to create their assignments and the sequence of tasks. Their participation will build enthusiasm and commitment to the project. Next you and your team estimate how long each task will take and the risks you face. You will learn 5 estimating techniques and when to use each of them. You will also learn a 5 step risk management process starting with risk identification through qualitative and quantitative risk analysis, planning your risk responses and tracking risks. Scheduling - Next you learn to use the project management software tool: Microsoft Project(R)or the free version of Gantter(R). Our scheduling methodology lets you build and maintain professional schedules in ten minutes for small and medium projects. At each step, you see your schedule and can revise it to match what is in the book. Then you launch your case study project. Tracking - Your team starts their assignments and sends you status data each week. Using this data, you update your schedule and analyze the variances.You plan for corrective action to get the project back on schedule. You will learn variance analysis, earned value and how to make a status report to the executives. Reporting - Using the template we provide, you prepare your status report and a Powerpoint (or Keynote) presentation. You make your live presentation to the project sponsor (role played by your instructor). You also see the PM answering the sponsor's questions. The above is the methodology and the techniques you learn in our project management basic textbooks. In the advanced project management books, we add additional techniques like risk management, advanced estimating and earned value analysis that are appropriate for each industry specialty.

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