Project Management Series

Project Management: Project Management Overview provides an overview on the nature of projects as well as project management.

Project Management: Understanding the Project Manager's Role explains the role of the project manager and the traits and abilities he or she must have to be effective.

Project Management: Defining the Problem describes the importance of specifically narrowing down the problem statement. In addition, it explains the detrimental impact that bypassing this step has. It also distinguishes between different types of problems and possible methods for identifying them. Finally, it describes the Project Charter and how to create it.

Project Management: Determining the Strategy defines strategy, describes methods to generate and rank a strategies list, and explains the importance of risk and contingency planning.

Project Management: Developing the Work Breakdown Structure describes how to create and organize project tasks by developing the work breakdown structure and a network diagram.

Project Management: Estimating and Scheduling Resources explains estimating and scheduling concepts, provides guidelines for estimating and scheduling, and describes the advantage of project management tools such as Microsoft Project.

Project Management: Understanding Scheduling Computations explains how to perform forward and backward computations to determine the critical path in a project network diagram and shows how an activity-on-node network diagram can be changed to make an activity-on-arrow diagram and a bar chart.

Project Management: Tracking Project Activities describes the control phase of a project and provides guidelines on how to effectively control a project.

Project Management: Closing Out the Project explains the close-out phase of a project and describes the activities that must be performed during this phase.

Project Management: Formalizing Project Management Standards provides an overview on the nature of projects as well as project management.

Project Management: Developing Project Teams describes project team dynamics and provides guidelines on how to effectively build a project team.