Painless Project Management (eBook)

PAMELA McGHEE, PMP, President and owner of McGhee Enterprises, a project management and IT consulting firm, has consulted with thousands of project managers at Fortune 500 companies. She is a long-standing faculty member at the American Management Association, where she conducts project management and IT seminars. Ms. McGhee is also an adjunct instructor at Baruch College in New York, where she teaches basic and advanced project management. PETER McALINEY, PMP, CMC, is President of Chenery and Company, Inc., which specializes in strategy implementation and project management. He has worked with such corporations as Coca-Cola and GM, as well as with several academic institutions. He is currently developing online project management education programs and assists organizations with cross-cultural communications challenges on virtual team projects.

Preface.

PART I: THE PAINLESS FASTER, SIMPLER METHOD FOR SMALLER
PROJECTS AND NEWER PROJECTS MANGERS.

Chapter 1: Introduction to Project Management.

Chapter 2: The Project Management Life Cycle, the Work Cycle,
and the Business Context.

Chapter 3: Concept-Building the Business Case.

Chapter 4: Planning the Work and Working the Plan.

PART II: THE PAINLESS TRIED-AND TRUE METHOD FOR LARGER, MORE
COMPLEX PROJECTS AND EXPERIENCED PROJECT MANAGERS.

Chapter 5: Developing the Project Charter fro Larger, More
Complex Projects.

Chapter 6: Much, Much, More on WBSs, Networks, and Gantt
Charts.

Chapter 7: Status Reporting: What to Tell, When, and to
Whom.

Chapter 8: The Management Part of Project Management.

Afterword.

Appendix: Templates.

Index.