Russell's ebook Library

Practice Standard for Project Estimating
PMI
Presents guidelines for project managers on developing costs, resources and time estimates in the early stages of a project and techniques for refining these estimates during each project stage.

Practice Standard for Project Risk Management
PMI
The Practice Standard for Project Risk Management provides a benchmark for the project management profession that defines the aspects of Project Risk Management that are recognized as good practice on most projects most of the time.The Practice Stand...

Practice Standard for Scheduling, Second Edition
PMI
Presents a refererence guide for building a scheduling model based on project management principles, describing its major components and the ways it can be assessed for its effectiveness over the life of the project.

Practice Standard for Work Breakdown Structures, Second Edition
PMI
Provides a framework to help managers to define project objectives and delegate tasks to team members, providing in the second edition a standard application of the Work Breakdown Structure as a project management tool.

A Pragmatic Guide to Competency: Tools, Frameworks and Assessment
Jon Holt and Simon A. Perry
Competency is the ability of an individual to perform their working activities.Many organisations are able to demonstrate capability (i.e. that adequate processes are in place) but struggle to demonstrate that they have the appropriate competent staf...

Praxis Framework: An Integrated Guide to the Management of Projects, Programmes and Portfolios
Adrian Dooley and Praxis
For much of my working life I have been involved in developing project managers and consulting with organisations who want to improve their project delivery.Over the years, I felt I was spending far too much time explaining the differences between va...

Praxis Framework: Comparative Glossary of Project, Programme and Portfolio Terminology v1.1
Adrian Dooley and Praxis
Welcome to the Praxis Framework comparative glossary.The aim of this document is twofold. Firstly it acts as a conventional glossary of terms. Secondly, it provides comparisons between terms from the guides listed in the coverage section.The glossary...

Preparing for the Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification Exam
Michael W. Newell
Project managers who need the latest and most complete test-preparation materials will find this new edition a life-saver. Covering each competency area tested on the exam, it also explains question structures and offers numerous case studies and oth...

Prioritising Project Risks
APM
Everyone agrees that projects are risky, which is why risk management has become an integral part of the management of projects. However, projects are not equally risky, and not all risks deserve equal attention. Managers at all levels need to focus ...

Probability Models for Economic Decisions, second edition
Roger B. Myerson and Eduardo Zambrano
An introduction to the use of probability models for analyzing risk and economic decisions, using spreadsheets to represent and simulate uncertainty.

Professionalism in Project Management
Peter Morris
Professionalism in Project Management, IEE.

Project Excellence Baseline
IPMA
This standard, the IPMA Project Excellence Baseline® (IPMA PEB), is designed to promote excellence in managing projects and programmes, and complements our previous standards for individual competences IPMA Individual Competence Baseline (IPMA ICB®) ...

Project Leadership
Arras People
Arras People Project Leadership Report.

Project Management
Gary Heerkens
This reader-friendly series is a must read for all levels of managers All managers, whether brand-new to their positions or well established in the corporate hierarchy, can use a little brushing-up now and then. The skills-based Briefcase Books Serie...

Project Management
Raconteur
Raconteur Report.

Project Management - Best Practices: Achieving Global Excellence
Harold Kerzner and International Institute For Learning
This Second Edition of Harold Kerzner's Project Management: Best Practices: Achieving Global Excellence provides insight from senior executives from over fifty world-class companies on successful project management implementation.The Second Edition p...

The Project Management Communications Toolkit
Carl Pritchard
Effective communication is every project manager's most powerful tool. Helping you achieve a high level of communications expertise and success is the goal of this book and CD-ROM package. This practical resource shows you how to coordinate the effor...

Project Management Confidence Index
Arras People
Project management confidence Index 2014.

Project Management Manual
Harvard Business School

Project Management Pathways
APM and Martin Stevens
To assist aspiring and practising managers has always been central to the aims of the APM.Project Management Professional (APMP), Project Management Practitioner (PQ) and Certificated Project Manager (CPM) are the Association's career benchmark quali...

Project Management Process Improvement
Robert K. Wysocki
No matter how perfect a project plan may be on paper, it is worthless if nobody actually uses it. This truism is an everyday reality for too many project managers who muster all their expertise writing the "perfect" plan only to watch the project fal...

Project Management Training Report
Arras People
Arras People Project Management Training Report 2014.

Project Management for Business Professionals: A Comprehensive Guide
Joan Knutson
No longer restricted to the engineering industry, project management has at long last crossed over to mainstream business. Project Management for Business Professionals is the definitive reference on the essentials of contemporary project management....

Project Management for Business and Engineering: Principles and Practice
John M. Nicholas
Project Management for Business and Engineering is a direct response to the ever-increasing need for better project management. This book encompasses the full range of project management - everything from origins, philosophy, and methodology to actua...

Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling
Harold Kerzner
The updated edition of the landmark reference.This Ninth Edition of the industry-leading project management "bible" applies its streamlined approach to new, authoritative coverage aligned with the Project Management Institute's Project Management Bod...