Author’s
Note
Introduction to Project Management has been
written as a broad based introduction to
the field of project management. This book will
outline all the key project management principles,
tools and techniques and show how they can
be used to manage your projects.
This book
is ideal for managers entering the field of
project management who need
a solid
platform from which to manage small projects
or sub-projects with a limited scope of
work, limited number of resources and a small
budget.
This book is also ideal for project team
members who need to understand the basic
principles
of project management so that they can
support the project manager and carryout
the project
administration function within the project
office. As a team member this may involve
gathering and processing project data,
monitoring and
reporting project progress, administrating
scope change control, administrating documentation
control and expediting progress.
With deregulation
and privatization, large companies and
government departments have
been forced to become more competitive
and more
customer focused. One way of achieving
this is to package work into many small
projects
which can be effectively managed through
a project office.
As the use of projects
becomes more pervasive, so more managers
are entering the field
of project management. Their success will
be
helped by their ability to develop and
apply a comprehensive
toolkit of planning and control techniques
- as a mechanic works with a bag of tools,
so the project manager works with a computer
producing organisation charts, work breakdown
structures, Gantt charts, resource histograms
and cashflow statements.
Introduction to
Project Management is structured inline with
the PMBOK’s nine knowledge
areas, the APM bok, the Australian competency
standards, and the South African unit standards
for project management (numbers 120372,
120376, 120381, 120384, 120387, 120382).
This book
also explains the planning and control
techniques used by the project management
software. These
standards form the corner stones of project
management and will help you ringfence
what you need to know.
Introduction to Project
Management includes
plenty of worked examples and exercises,
together with an Instructor’s Manual
for lecturers using this book.
Rory Burke
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