January 2025
Intermediate to advanced
368 pages
10h 4m
English
Content preview from Project Management ToolBox, 3rd Edition
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
INDEX
- A
- Acceptance criteria, 90
- Accountability, 55
- Accountable, 153
- Actual cost, 267
- Adaptive project execution, 219
- Administering payments, 156
- Administrative project, 7
- Advanced risk management tools, 201
- Agile methodologies, 219, 220
- Agile work, 51
- Alignment Matrix, 32–35
- Alignment scale, 34
- Allocate resources, 116
- Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), 157
- Analogous Estimate, 132–134
- Analysis, 204
- Anchor statements, 41
- Approved business strategy, 33
- Architect, 152
- Assessment information, 57
- Assigned project manager, 45–46
- Assumption, 39, 132, 134, 135, 164–165
- and constraint log, 51–53
- Authority level, 45–46
- B
- Background information, 36
- Backlog, 6
- Backward pas, 118–120
- Baseline requirements, 84
- Benefits Map, 11–15
- Beta distribution, 190
- Bidder conference, 159
- Bid documents, 159
- Bid process, 156
- Bottom-up Estimate, 199–203
- Brainstorming, 75, 100, 191
- Branches, 97, 196
- Breakthrough projects, 6
- Budgetary authority, 45
- Budget consumption chart, 6, 262–265
- Budget estimates, 131, 138
- Buffer Chart, 241–244
- Business case, 7, 35–37, 287, 289
- Business environment, 36
- Business requirements, 79, 83, 86
- Business strategy, 36
- Business success criteria, 36
- Business success factors, 13–14
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.