Project Management Essentials, Second Edition.

Cover -- Project Management Essentials -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1: Introduction to Project Management -- What Is Project Management? -- What Is Project Success? -- What Is a Project Life Cycle? -- Key Roles in Project Management -- Overview of Remaining Chapters -- Summary -- CHAPTER 2: Selecting and Initiating a Project -- Portfolio Management -- Project Management Office -- Initiating Projects with a Charter -- Summary -- CHAPTER 3: Engaging Your Team and Other Stakeholders -- Your Team -- Identify and Prioritize Stakeholders -- Summary -- CHAPTER 4: Determining What Your Project Will Deliver -- Collect Requirements -- Define Scope -- Work Breakdown Structure -- Managing Risks -- Establishing Change Control -- Summary -- CHAPTER 5: Project Scheduling -- Defining Work Activities -- Sequencing Work Activities -- Estimating Activity Duration -- Developing the Project Schedule -- Showing Your Schedule on a Gantt Chart -- Assigning Workers -- Identifying Resource Overloads -- Using Software -- Summary -- CHAPTER 6: Budgeting and Baselining Your Project -- Estimate Cost -- Determine Budget -- Consolidate Schedule, Budget, Scope, and Resources into Integrated Plan -- Kickoff Project -- Baseline Consolidated Project Plan -- Summary -- CHAPTER 7: Directing Project Performance -- Continued Planning and Directing -- Maintaining Momentum -- Manage Communications -- Close Project -- Summary -- APPENDIX 1: Templates -- APPENDIX 2: Selecting, Prioritizing, and Resourcing Projects -- About the Authors -- Index -- Ad Page -- Back Cover.