Book description
Nicknamed TNT by the authors, this explosive book is a mixture of insider information and effective strategies. Ralph Kliem and Irwin Ludin, former college lecturers whose business experience includes manufacturing, telecommunications, aerospace and artificial intelligence, deliver quick insight into the meaning and application of the most current terms in the project management profession. Although directed toward project management practitioners, others working in the fields of finance, marketing, sales and human resources will find this book an outstanding starting point. Have you ever wished you could find one book that featured all the latest project management terms, ideas and strategies in short, concise, easy-to-read form? Pick up this dynamite book today!Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Affinity Diagram
- Agenda
- Analysis and Analysis Paralysis
- Authority
- Baselining
- Bell-Shaped Curve
- Benchmarking
- Brainstorming
- Breakeven Analysis
- Cause-and-Effect Graph
- Chain of Command
- Change Control Sheet
- Change Management
- Charts and Graphs
- Checklists
- Checkpoint Review Meeting
- Chunking
- Communication Diagram
- Configuration Management
- Conflict Management
- Consultant Selection
- Contingency Plan
- Contract Types
- Controlling
- Cost/Benefit Analysis
- Cost
- Crisis Management
- Critical Issues/Action Items Log
- Critical Success Factors
- Daily Priority Task Listing
- Data versus Information
- Decision-Making
- Decision Table
- Decision Tree
- Delegating
- Deming Wheel
- Design Principles
- Diagramming
- Document Templates
- Earned Value
- Efficiency and Effectiveness
- Entropy
- Equipment Usage Log
- Facilitation (Workshops)
- Fishbone Diagram
- Five Ws
- Flextime
- Flowcharting
- Forms Layout
- Frequency Distribution
- Gantt Chart
- Glossary
- Goals and Objectives
- Grouping
- Heuristics
- History File
- Hypothesis Formulation and Testing
- Imagineering
- Impact Analysis
- Information Center
- Input-Process-Output Analysis Model
- Interruption Reduction
- Interviewing
- Issue-Action Diagram
- Just-in-Time Delivery
- Key Contact Listing
- Leading
- Lessons Learned
- Listening
- Make-Buy Analysis
- Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP II)
- Matrix
- Matrix versus Task Force Structure
- Mean
- Median
- Meetings
- Memo of Understanding
- Methodology Development
- Metrics
- Mind Mapping
- Minutes
- Mode
- Modeling
- Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
- Negotiations
- Net Present Value
- Network Diagram
- Newsletter
- No!
- Nonmonetary Rewards
- Object versus Process Analysis
- Operations Manual
- Organization Chart
- Organizing
- Outline
- Outsourcing
- Overcoming Bottlenecks
- P2M2 Cycle
- Paradigms
- Pareto Analysis
- Parkinson’s Law
- Participative Decision-Making
- Payback Analysis
- PERT Estimating Technique
- Peter Principle
- Phase Breakdown
- Planning
- POSDCORB
- Presentations
- Priority Setting
- Probability
- Problem Analysis and Solution
- Procedures
- Process Streamlining
- Project Announcement
- Project Life Cycle
- Project Office
- Prototype
- Quality Review
- Quartiles
- Recycle and Resale
- Reengineering
- Replanning
- Reports
- Request for Proposal (Response)
- Resource Leveling
- Responsibility Matrix
- Return on Investment
- Reuse
- Risk Management
- Sampling
- Scattergram
- Scientific Method
- S Curve
- Self-Directed Work Teams
- Single Point of Contact
- Sketch
- Software Selection
- Span of Control
- Speed-Reading
- Staff Meetings
- Standards
- Statement of Work (Understanding)
- Statistical Corruptions and Distortions
- Statistical Process Control Chart
- Status Collection
- Status Review Meetings
- Supply Chain Manufacturing
- SWAT Teams
- Systems Theory
- T Account Decision-Making
- Teamwork
- Telecommuting
- Telephone Tag
- Testing
- Time Log
- Total Quality Management
- Transactional Analysis
- Transportation Consolidation
- Unity of Command
- Validity Threats
- Value Management
- Variability
- Verification
- Videoconferencing
- Viewfoils
- Virtual Teams
- Visibility Wall/Room
- Web Site
- Weighted Selection Criteria Approach
- Work Breakdown Structure
- References
- Appendix
Product information
- Title: Tools and Tips for Today's Project Manager
- Author(s):
- Release date: January 1999
- Publisher(s): Project Management Institute
- ISBN: None
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