The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Project Management Course

by Helen S. Cooke, Karen Tate

Project management is today's hottest topic, yet fully integrative, timely, and broad-based coverage is difficult to find. "The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Project Management Course "synthesizes and organizes current PM knowledge and material from the Project Management Institute and other leading bodies of knowledge into one comprehensive and contemporary resource. Real-life case studies and examples, placed in the context of state-of-the-art applications, make this course book valuable to a wide range of professionals in virtually any industry.

Genres: Business, Management, Nonfiction

352 pages, Paperback

First published February 11, 2005

Reviews

[Daniel Clausen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Quite a lot of project management can be boiled down to a few things: break big goals into little goals, sequence goals appropriately; make lists; track progress; analyze variances in expected and actual progress; repeat as necessary.

If it's a little more complicated than that, it's not by much. The book reaffirms one solid insight: that much project management acuity comes from practice.

[Bernie4444 · Rating 5 out of 5]

From concept to the profession

For decades I have been managing projects in IS and IT. Now I find myself a project manager that has in-depth knowledge of it. Where and when did this metamorphosis come about? Where will all this lead to? Once a skill used by many professions Project Management has become a profession in itself.

This book takes you from concept through history and delivers you to practical management. As with all 36-Hour courses, it takes more than 36 hours and you will want to go back and revisit the book after applying the information to a real project or two.

Each chapter asks a few simple questions at the end. I found myself once in a while having to re-read to get some of the answers. Even though different project environments the book takes into consideration most of them and has practical forms for most of them.

There is information on professional institutions and other reading material.

Of all the project management books on the market, I am seriously considering this book for the lunch hour discussion with other Project Managers and potential Project managers.

[Vincent]

Plan, Launch, Manage, & Close Projects
Build the best team for each project
Shape & drive a project using effective leadership
Manage quality, costs, time, and risk
Deploy the latest project management technologies

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