Project Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know

 Includes Chapter Summaries and Solutions to Practice Exercises

Simplified Project Management concepts

Practical approaches to be applied to projects

Best Practices used in contemporary projects

Project Management Templates

As employees first move towards management, they typically take on management of critical projects. Project Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know: 4th Edition provides the core information about how to manage the complexity of modern projects, including subjects such as:

    A project management overview

    Project Initiation - Constraints, Stakeholders, PMO, Life Cycles

    Project Planning - WBS, PERT/CPM, Budgeting, Risk

    Project Execution - Audits, HR, Communications

    Project Monitoring & Controlling - Tracking, Quality Control, Change Control

    Project Closure

About the Author

Kalpesh Ashar is a management consultant and corporate trainer holding an MBA (Dean's Award Winner) from SPJIMR, one of Asia's top business schools, and an Engineering degree with honors in Electronics. He has over 21 years of experience in large organizations and start-ups in Asia, USA, and Europe.

Kalpesh has worked in several project management roles, like Senior Project Manager, Delivery Manager, and Program Manager. He is passionate about writing on management subjects. His techno-business background gives him a unique position to write on management topics that are easy to understand for non-MBA graduates. His books are authored in a simple to understand manner without unnecessary use of management jargons

.About the Series

Project Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know: 4th Edition is part of the Self-Learning Management Series that helps working professionals moving into management roles. This Self Learning Management Series intends to give a jump start to working professionals, whose job roles demand to have the knowledge imparted in a B-school but haven't got a chance to visit one. This series is designed to address every aspect of business from HR to Finance to Marketing to Operations, be it any industry. Each b...