01 January 2021 at 12:00AM
Project Manager’s Portable Handbook
Project Manager’s Portable Handbook is a useful guide for any project manager who wants to stay on track with related project management standards being a tremendous source of project management theories and practices.
The authors of the book are two prestigious Project Management Institute (PMI) fellows, the late Dr. David I. Cleland who has been described as the “Father of Project Management” and the late Lewis R. Ireland who was a former PMI president with 40 years of experience in project management. They both brought and outlined project management concepts in a structured but insightful manner. Their book outlines ways of how to successfully manage projects and have those concepts handy and easy to find in their handbook.
Overview of Book’s Structure
The book is structured into ten key areas that help project managers or other professionals enhance their knowledge related to various project management areas:
- The Discipline of Project Management: a framework for understanding project management
- Project Organizational Design: discusses standards of how appropriate organizational design entails to managing projects
- Alternative Project Applications: provides examples of alternative project applications
- The Strategic Context of Projects: outlines possible design and execution of organizational strategies
- Project Leadership: an overall description of team leadership characteristics;
- Project Initiation and Execution: discusses key considerations when selecting a project
- Project Planning and Control: outlines ways of how to plan and monitor a project
- The Project Culture: provides insights on how culture can impact a project atmosphere
- Project Communications: discusses various communications patterns in a project
- Improving Project Management: provides alternatives of how to better improve projects’ processes
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