Project Management Checklists For Dummies

Chapter 20

Finding Useful Techniques

In This Chapter

Techniques for planning

Control techniques

Techniques for the Business Case

Risk management techniques

How often have you struggled to do something and eventually found a way through? Then, after you’ve finished, you find that there was a great technique that you could have used to make the job both simpler and faster.

Project management has been around for a long time, and in that time a lot of people have come up with a lot of ways of doing things. Then a lot more people have found a lot more ways of making those techniques even better. You benefit from all that experience when you use techniques that are well tried and tested. In your projects then, don’t struggle to do something when by looking at this chapter you could find one or two techniques that will make your life a lot easier.

The techniques listed in this chapter are to give you a starting point. If one looks like it might be useful, have a look around in places like the internet and project management books to find out more about it. There are many more techniques ...