A Project Manager’s Book of Tools and Techniques 2018
A Project Manager’s Book of Tools and Techniques 2018 written for practicing project managers, project management students, and for those studying for the Project Management Professional certification (PMP®). The book is meant to help clarify and explain some of the more common techniques we employ in project management. It also describes some of the more specialized techniques that are not used as often, but that can be very useful in certain situations.
If you are a practicing project manager you may fi nd it useful to read up on specifi c techniques to get a deeper understanding of how to apply them. You may want to fi nd out more about a whole category of techniques, such as data representation or estimating. If you are a student of project management you can use this book to help you understand tech-niques presented in class and how to apply them.
Professionals studying for the PMP will benefi t by gaining an in-depth understanding of many of the techniques you will fi nd on the exam.
What’s in A Project Manager’s Book of Tools and Techniques 2018 ?
There are more than 125 tools and techniques mentioned in the PMBOK ® Guide – Sixth Edition. Many of them are in one of these six groups:
- Data gathering
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- Data analysis
- The Data representation
- Communication skills
- Decision-making skills
- Interpersonal and team skills
Each section starts out with an introduction. For example, to learn about scheduling you would probably read in this sequence:
- Precedence diagramming method (Section 6.6)
- Leads and lags (Section 6.5)
- Some, or all, of the duration estimating methods (Sections 4.1, 4.2, 4.5, and 4.7)
- Critical path method (Section 6.2)
- Resource optimization (Section 6.9)
- Schedule compression (Section 6.11)
Each technique starts with a description of what it is. Following this are step-by-step instructions on how to use the technique. There is some additional information, and then a listing of where you will see the technique used in the PMBOK® Guide.
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