Introduction to Project Management

This page provides an easy-to-understand guide on successful management of projects.


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9.2 Practical Project Management Tips That Work

Cheap, high-payoff habits for running a project: write decisions down the same day, name one owner per item, say bad news early and small, and plan only as far as the detail still helps.

4.3 Communication Planning: Who Hears What, When

How to build a one-page project communication plan: tailoring the same fact to different audiences, choosing channels, and deciding who does not need to hear it.

4.0 Project Team Management: A Practical Guide

Why most project failures are coordination failures, the three things that need managing — team, stakeholders, communication — and the symptoms when each is thin.

3.4 Risk Management: Register, Matrix, Response

How to run project risk management that changes behaviour: finding specific risks, scoring them, choosing among the four responses, and writing triggers that fire.

3.0 Project Planning Basics: Scope, Schedule, Risk

The four things every project plan has to settle — what you are delivering, by when, with whom, and what could go wrong — and what goes wrong on real projects when any one of them is left vague.

2.2 Project Planning Phase: From Charter to Plan

What the planning phase produces, why estimates must be built from the bottom up, when to stop planning, and the watch-outs that make plans wrong on day one.

Project Management Essentials: A Complete Practical Guide

A free, complete guide to project management: what a project is, how to plan one, how to keep it on track, and how to close it well.