A self study guide that includes clear instructions or drill book on Project Management. It includes sections on 'The Math' of Project Management, Networking and looking at task times; looking at rules during project preparation and also includes a section on communciation and human relations. A useful list of project management acronyms is also included.
Preface
About the Author
About ESI International
Introduction
Part I: The Math
Chapter 1: Earned Value
Chapter 2: Expected Value
Chapter 3: Decision Trees
Chapter 4: Project Estimating
Chapter 5: Other Project Management Math
Part II: Network and Network Diagramming
Chapter 6: Setting Task Time
Chapter 7: Precedence Diagramming
Chapter 8: Activity-on-Arrow Diagramming
Chapter 9: Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)
Part III: The Rules
Chapter 10: Initiation and Project Preparation
Chapter 11: Work Breakdown Structure
Chapter 12: Project Implementation
Chapter 13: Project Closeout
Part IV: The Soft Side
Chapter 14: Communications
Chapter 15: Human Relations
Afterword
List of Acronyms
Bibliography
Biography
Carl L. Pritchard is the Principal of Pritchard Management Associates and is a widely recognized risk management and project management authority and lecturer. Mr. Pritchard’s publications include courses in project management as well as Risk Management: Concepts and Guidance, How to Build a Work Breakdown Structure, and Precedence Diagramming: Successful Scheduling in the Team Environment. He coauthored Managing Projects in Organizations—The CD-ROM with J. Davidson Frame. With J. LeRoy Ward, he has coauthored The Portable PMP® Prep: Conversations on Passing the PMP® Exam set of nine CDs. He has contributed chapters for numerous major project management texts, including Dr. David Cleland’s Field Guide to Project Management (second edition) and Joan Knutson’s Project Management for the Business Professional. He is the U.S. correspondent for Project Manager Today, a project management journal published in the United Kingdom.
