Communication Skills LibGuide

Fundamentals of Project Management, a popular handbook for project managers, simplifies concepts, answers questions, and controls chaos. The Sixth Edition includes practical guidelines and tools, updated with changes to the PMBOK® Guide, 7th edition.

The PMBOK(R) Guide - Seventh Edition and the Standard for Project Management both emphasize 12 principles and eight performance domains to promote proactive, innovative, and nimble project outcomes.

Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez's guide offers a simple framework for project management, utilizing case studies from various industries, to enhance project success and guide organizations in the project-driven world.

Oxford professor Bent Flyvbjerg's research focuses on understanding the factors that distinguish triumphs from failures in various endeavors. His work explains why even modest endeavors, like launching a small business or organizing a conference, often fail.

This book teaches you a practical project management approach that works in the real world. It provides you with: A structured project management framework. It will help you manage a project from start to finish with easy-to-use templates, tools, and PM software. Step-by-step process of project planning. You can scale it up and down depending on the complexity of a project. A proven system to manage stakeholders and their expectations. Learn how to engage them in a project so that they help you rather than impede your work. My robust risk management workflow that your team and stakeholders can easily understand and follow. A sequential process of creating a realistic schedule. It's also easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions that you can implement in any project management tool.

The Practitioner's Guide to Project Management offers effective techniques for collaborative discussions and business value, covering both traditional and agile methods. It provides foundational techniques, role and responsibility clarity, project management deliverables explanations, collaborative planning workshops recommendations, and answers to common questions.

This comprehensive guide offers expert advice on mastering project management, focusing on sizing, organizing, scheduling, and handling projects, ensuring productivity and making project managers indispensable for both new and experienced professionals.

The book uses "philosophical triangulation" to address organizational research weaknesses and biases, focusing on project-based work and integrating research theory, design, project success, and governance to identify effective methods.

Project Management Planning is a systematic process for managing planned responsibilities and unexpected situations, involving scope, time, resources, cost, quality, risk, and benefit, and improving system logic.

Project Management: Theory and Practice, Third Edition provides a comprehensive, model-based approach to project management, avoiding academic sterility and focusing on industry-specific aspects.

The Successful Project Management: A Step-by-Step Toolkit provides a structured approach to project planning, implementation, and review, focusing on effective strategies for organizational success.