PMP Certification

From senior executives across the globe, insights for

successful project management implementation

The bestselling first edition of Project Management Best Practices: Achieving Global Excellence set the course for project managers navigating the increasingly challenging task of working within global corporations and with distant and diverse work teams. This new edition carries that tradition to the next step, presenting a new set of firsthand accounts of how corporations around the world incorporate project management into their strategic business operations.

In this Second Edition, senior managers of more than fifty global companies—both large (Fortune 500) and small, and in all sectors of the market—share their best practices in project management. These industry leaders offer insight into best practices for:

• Project risk management

• Project management for multinational cultures and cultural failures

• Focusing on value as well as cost and schedule

• Integrated and virtual project teams

With new and updated information on the latest developments in the field, Project Management Best Practices: Achieving Global Excellence, Second Edition offers a must-have window onto the issues—and their real-world solutions—facing corporate managers, project and team managers, engineers, project team members, and business consultants in today’s global market.

The basic concept and use of the work breakdown structure (WBS) are fundamental in project management. In Work Breakdown Structures for Projects, Programs, and Enterprises, author Gregory T. Haugan, originator of the widely accepted 100 percent rule, offers an expanded understanding of the WBS concept, illustrating its principles and applications for planning programs as well as its use as an organizing framework at the enterprise level. Through specific examples, this book will help you understand how the WBS aids in the planning and management of all functional areas of project management.

With this valuable resource you will be able to:
-Tailor WBSs to your organization’s unique requirements using provided checklists and principles
-Develop and use several types of WBS
-Use WBS software to gain a competitive edge
-Apply the 100 percent rule when developing a WBS for a project or program
-Establish a WBS for a major construction project using included templates
-Understand portfolio management and establish an enterprise-standard

Learn how to develop a standard work breakdown structure for your organization today!

This fully updated and revised third edition complies with official PMI and PMBOK standards and provides full coverage of the discipline, tools, and processes of modern project management.

New to this edition: updated examples for risk assessment and expanded templates, logs, and forms for tracking and analysis.

€ A fully updated and revised 3rd edition, with new templates, forms, and examples
€ Complies with official PMI and PMBOK standards for project management
€ More colleges and universities are offering courses and degrees in project management

From senior executives across the globe, insights for

successful project management implementation

The bestselling first edition of Project Management Best Practices: Achieving Global Excellence set the course for project managers navigating the increasingly challenging task of working within global corporations and with distant and diverse work teams. This new edition carries that tradition to the next step, presenting a new set of firsthand accounts of how corporations around the world incorporate project management into their strategic business operations.

In this Second Edition, senior managers of more than fifty global companies—both large (Fortune 500) and small, and in all sectors of the market—share their best practices in project management. These industry leaders offer insight into best practices for:

• Project risk management

• Project management for multinational cultures and cultural failures

• Focusing on value as well as cost and schedule

• Integrated and virtual project teams

With new and updated information on the latest developments in the field, Project Management Best Practices: Achieving Global Excellence, Second Edition offers a must-have window onto the issues—and their real-world solutions—facing corporate managers, project and team managers, engineers, project team members, and business consultants in today’s global market.

The Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) has emerged as a foundational concept and tool in Project Management. It is an enabler that ensures clear definition and communication of project scope while performing a critical role as a monitoring and controlling tool. Created by the three experts who led the development of PMI’s Practice Standard for Work Breakdown Structures, Second Edition, this much-needed text expands on what the standard covers and describes how to go about successfully implementing the WBS within the project life cycle, from initiation and planning through project closeout.

Filling the gap in the literature on the WBS, Work Breakdown Structures: The Foundation for Project Management Excellence gives the reader an understanding of:

• The background and key concepts of the WBS

• WBS core characteristics, decomposition, representations, and tools

• Project initiation and the WBS, including contracts, agreements, and Statements of Work (SOW)

• Deliverable-based and activity-based management

• Using the WBS as a basis for procurement and financial planning

• Quality, risk, resource, and communication planning with the WBS

• The WBS in the executing, monitoring, and controlling phases

• New concepts regarding the representation of project and program scope

• Verifying project closeout with the WBS

Using a real-life project as an example throughout the book, the authors show how the WBS first serves to document and collect information during the initiating and planning phases of a project. Then, during the executing phase, the authors demonstrate how the WBS transitions to an active role of project decision-support, serving as a reference and a source for control and measurement.

- Processes organized by Project Management Process Group, with color coded Knowledge Areas
- All 42 Processes complete with inputs, tools and techniques, and outputs
- Project Integration Management shown as the backbone of the project
- Data flow between all Processes, Process Groups, Knowledge Areas, and External to the project
- Highlighted:
Project Management Plan
Project Documents
Risk Register
Change Requests
Deliverables
- Initiating Documents, Project Charter and Scope Baseline components emphasized.

PMP

Project Management Professional

Fourth Edition

 

PMP Exam Cram, Fourth Edition, is the perfect study guide to help you pass the 2009 PMP Exam. It provides coverage and practice questions for every exam topic. The book contains an extensive set of preparation tools such as quizzes and Exam Alerts, while the CD-ROM provides real-time practice and feedback with a 200-question test engine.

 

Covers the critical information you’ll need to know to score higher on your exam!

     .    Approach the project management process from PMI’s views on project management

     .    Understand the project management framework

     .    Properly initiate projects

     .    Understand the project planning process

     .    Complete the planned project work

     .    Monitor project work and make necessary changes

     .    Close projects

     .    Follow PMI’s professional responsibility standards

 

CD Features 200 Practice Questions!

 

The test engine gives you an effective tool to assess your readiness for the exam

     .    Detailed explanations of correct and incorrect answers

     .    Multiple test modes

     .    Random questions and order of answers

     .    Coverage of each PMP exam topic