Project Management Tool Kit, The: 100 Tips and Techniques for Getting the Job Done Right

by Tom Kendrick

Today’s projects are more challenging than ever—and project managers need all the help they can get to succeed amid shifting priorities, budget cuts, interruptions, and other obstacles. Now in its third edition, The Project Management Tool Kit is a must-have strategic partner, filled with step-by-step guidance that will enable managers to get complex projects completed on time and on budget. Extensively updated and revised to reflect the latest changes to A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide), this results-oriented resource offers 100 powerful, practical tips and techniques in areas planning • Schedule development and adjustment • Cost estimating and control • Communications • Defining and using project metrics • Decision making and problem solving • Motivation and leadership • Stakeholder engagement and expectation management • Risk identification and monitoring • Software and technical tools • And much moreComplete with checklists, charts, examples, and tools for easy implementation, this handy guide will help project professionals tackle any challenge that comes their way.

Genres: Business, Nonfiction, Reference

256 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2004

About the author

TOM KENDRICK has over 35 years of project and program experience, including senior positions with Hewlett-Packard and Visa. He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP®) and the author of several highly respected project management books, including Identifying and Managing Project Risk.

Reviews

[Glenn Burnside · Rating 4 out of 5]

I thought this was a good top-level summary of all the core activities, processes, and tools needed to run a project. The content would have been better served being ordered by the logical groupings of the related sections, instead of alphabetically. I found myelf jumping all over the book to get to related content. I get the feeling this book could be converted almost directly into a really great set of hyperlinked pages on an internal project management wiki.

[Bethany · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is not a "learn project management" book. It is a collection of tools that project managers should have in their kit. And most of them are "common sense" to the average business school graduate. It does warn you of this in the introduction. But I did not find it helpful.

[Serena Yates · Rating 3 out of 5]

A lot of the tips in this book are quite useful if you're trying to understand how to best manage projects of different types. It' a good overview of what is available, and will enable anyone who reads this book to pick out the tools they find most useful in a specific type of project.

[Michael Ryan · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is a Project Managers' dictionary, much like the PMBOK or Harold Kerzner's "Project Management, A Systems Approach." Both of those books are more comprehensive. But this book has some processes defined for things like 'Showing Leadership,' 'Lobbying for Resources' and 'Exerting Influence.' Not to say that such activities are entirely process-driven, it is at least handy to have a checklist to refer to, just to make sure that one has the major bases covered, and one's head is in the game, before heading off to the meeting...