Project Management For Dummies. Stanley E. Portny

Stakeholder Register Confirming Your Stakeholders’ Authority Assessing Your Stakeholders’ Power and Interest Relating This Chapter to the PMP Exam and PMBOK 7 Chapter 5: Clarifying What You’re Trying to Accomplish — And Why Defining Your Project with a Scope Statement Looking at the Big Picture: Explaining the Need for Your Project Marking Boundaries: Project Constraints Facing the Unknowns When Planning: Documenting Your Assumptions Presenting Your Scope Statement in a Clear and Concise Document Relating This Chapter to the PMP Exam and PMBOK 7 Chapter 6: Developing Your Game Plan: Getting from Here to There Divide and Conquer: Breaking Your Project into Manageable Chunks Creating and Displaying Your Work Breakdown Structure Identifying Risks While Detailing Your Work Documenting What You Need to Know about Your Planned Project Work Relating This Chapter to the PMP Exam and PMBOK 7

      6  Part 2: Planning Time: Determining When and How Much Chapter 7: You Want This Project Done When? Picture This: Illustrating a Work Plan with a Network Diagram Analyzing a Network Diagram Working with Your Project’s Network Diagram Developing Your Project’s Schedule Estimating Activity Duration Displaying Your Project’s Schedule Relating This Chapter to the PMP Exam and PMBOK 7 Chapter 8: Establishing Whom You Need, How Much of Their Time, and When Getting the Information You Need to Match People to Tasks Estimating Needed Commitment Ensuring Your Project Team Members Can Meet Their Resource Commitments Relating This Chapter to the PMP Exam and PMBOK 7 Chapter 9: Planning for Other Resources and Developing the Budget Determining Non-Personnel Resource Needs Making Sense of the Dollars: Project Costs and Budgets Relating This Chapter to the PMP Exam and PMBOK 7 Chapter 10: Venturing into the Unknown: Dealing with Risk Defining Risk and Risk Management Focusing on Risk Factors and Risks Assessing Risks: Probability and Consequences Getting Everything under Control: Managing Risk Preparing a Risk Management Plan Relating This Chapter to the PMP Exam and PMBOK 7

      7  Part 3: Group Work: Putting Your Team Together Chapter 11: Aligning the Key Players for Your Project Defining Three Organizational Environments Recognizing the Key Players in a Matrix Environment Working Successfully in a Matrix Environment Relating This Chapter to the PMP Exam and PMBOK 7 Chapter 12: Defining Team Members’ Roles and Responsibilities Outlining the Key Roles Making Project Assignments Picture This: Depicting Roles with a Responsibility Assignment Matrix Dealing with Micromanagement Relating This Chapter to the PMP Exam and PMBOK 7 Chapter 13: Starting Your Project Team Off on the Right Foot Finalizing Your Project’s Participants Developing Your Team Laying the Groundwork for Controlling Your Project Hear Ye, Hear Ye! Announcing Your Project Setting the Stage for Your Project Retrospective Relating This Chapter to the PMP Exam and PMBOK 7

      8  Part 4: Steering the Ship: Managing Your Project to Success Chapter 14: Tracking Progress and Maintaining Control Holding On to the Reins: Monitoring and Controlling Establishing Project Management Information Systems Putting Your Control Process into Action Reacting Responsibly When Changes Are Requested