Practical IT Project Management

Presents a fresh, intuitive perspective on project management. This book tackles the hard and soft skills a professional needs to be a successful project manager. It covers project management from pre-project through post-project highlighting options, tools, and pitfalls. It underscores the importance of both hard and soft skills.

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A fresh, intuitive perspective on project management is presented in this up-to-date, pragmatic, real-world book that tackles the hard and soft skills a professional needs to be a successful project manager. Author Dale Liu has created the TOP method which discusses and integrates technical, organizational, and people skills. TOP derives its name from T=Technical, O=Organizational, and P=people, extolling just how important each of these areas of expertise are for a successful project manager. The book covers project management from pre-project through post-project highlighting options, tools, and pitfalls. One project will be run through the book to illustrate the process of plan, organize, and follow through that is necessary for all successful projects. "Practical Project Management" is the go-to source for soon-to-be or current project managers that covers and combines technical business processes and the often forgotten human side of successful business. It helps you develop essential project management skills that will allow you to bring in product ahead of schedule and under budget. You can follow a single, complete project from conception to follow up review.
It underscores the importance of both hard and soft skills.