Collaborative Project Management Planning Toolbook

This book is a robust guide for project leaders and teams to startup and collaboratively plan any type of project. Drawing from a 25-year career assisting complex organizations across diverse industries, Paula K. Martin and Cathy Cassidy bring you a structured collaborative project management process in this illustrated, step-by-step guide. Each chapter presents a different tool, providing detailed steps for completing that tool as a team along with visual guidance on what the results of each step should look like. In these pages, you’ll discover how to clarify what the end solution is that the team is being asked to create and get adopted and how to work in a truly collaborative way create the project plan If you need to bring a group of people together to execute a project. Get clarity about what the team is being asked to do. And build buy-in to the plan, this detailed guide offers you the process and tools to get there.

Decisions impact stakeholders and building buy-in and commitment to those decisions best happens when decisions are made together. This Toolbook provides you with a structured collaborative process and tools that groups and teams can complete to make decisions together.

Boost your performance with improved project management tactics Project Management ToolBox: Tools and Techniques for the Practicing Project Manager, Second Edition offers a succinct explanation of when, where, and how to use project management resources to enhance your work. With updated content that reflects key advances in the project management field, including planning, implementation, control, cost, and scheduling, this revised text offers added material that covers relevant topics, such as agility, change management, governance, reporting, and risk management. This comprehensive resource provides a contemporary set of tools, explaining each tool's purpose and intention, development, customization and variations, and benefits and disadvantages. Additionally, examples, tips, and milestone checks guide you through the application of these tools, helping you practically apply the information you learn. Effective project management can support a company in increasing market share, improving the quality of products, and enhancing customer service. With so many aspects of project management changing as the business world continues to evolve, it is critical that you stay up to date on the latest topics in this field. Explore emerging topics within the world of project management, keeping up to date on the latest, most relevant subject areas Leverage templates, exercises, and PowerPoint presentations to enhance your project management skills Discuss tips, reporting, implementation, documentation, and other essentials of the project management field Consider how project management fits into various industries, including technology, construction, healthcare, and product development Project Management ToolBox: Tools and Techniques for the Practicing Project Manager, Second Edition is an essential resource for experienced project managers and project management students alike.

Boost your performance with improved project management tactics Project Management ToolBox: Tools and Techniques for the Practicing Project Manager, Second Edition offers a succinct explanation of when, where, and how to use project management resources to enhance your work. With updated content that reflects key advances in the project management field, including planning, implementation, control, cost, and scheduling, this revised text offers added material that covers relevant topics, such as agility, change management, governance, reporting, and risk management. This comprehensive resource provides a contemporary set of tools, explaining each tool's purpose and intention, development, customization and variations, and benefits and disadvantages. Additionally, examples, tips, and milestone checks guide you through the application of these tools, helping you practically apply the information you learn. Effective project management can support a company in increasing market share, improving the quality of products, and enhancing customer service. With so many aspects of project management changing as the business world continues to evolve, it is critical that you stay up to date on the latest topics in this field. Explore emerging topics within the world of project management, keeping up to date on the latest, most relevant subject areas Leverage templates, exercises, and PowerPoint presentations to enhance your project management skills Discuss tips, reporting, implementation, documentation, and other essentials of the project management field Consider how project management fits into various industries, including technology, construction, healthcare, and product development Project Management ToolBox: Tools and Techniques for the Practicing Project Manager, Second Edition is an essential resource for experienced project managers and project management students alike.

This book enhances learning about complex project management principles and practices through the introduction and discussion of a portfolio of tools presented as an evolving toolbox. Throughout the book, industry practitioners examine the toolsets that are part of the toolbox to develop a broader understanding of complex project management challenges and the available tools to address them. This approach establishes a dynamic, structured platform for a comprehensive analysis and assessment of the modern, rapidly changing, multifaceted business environment to teach the next generation of project managers to successfully cope with the ever increasing complexity of the 21st century.

This book has grown out of a Collaborative Project Management Guide that we at BrightWork created with and for our customers. This new second edition includes a three-step Collaborative Project Management Framework - Collaborate, Lead, and Evolve - and an expanded section on leadership covering both Personal and Situational Leadership. The book provides a summary of the typical stages and steps involved in successfully managing a project collaboratively with a team, including steps for the project team members. It also addresses the critical topic of Leadership, and describes the habits and qualities that successful project managers and team members practice and exhibit. Our intention and intended audience is as follows: - An easy-to-follow and simple-to-use collaborative project management book for new and 'accidental' project managers - A guide for team members who want to collaborate in the active management of projects - A source of materials experienced project managers can adapt to coach new project managers.

Get connected and improve outcomes with a more modern approachto project management Project Management 2.0 tackles the new emerging approachand toolset for practicing project management in a virtual world.Author Harold Kerzner is recognized as the thought leader inproject management, and in this book, he shows how PM 2.0 offersbetter outcomes with a focus on new tools, better governance,improved collaboration, and more meaningful reporting using KPIs,metrics, and dashboards. This full color guide explores the impactPM 2.0 changes are having on organizations around the world, andprovides a detailed comparison with PM 1.0 to help practitionersadopt new techniques and tools to use within their existing projectmanagement approach. At its core, PM 2.0 recognizes that a new generation of workersgrew up in a Web 2.0 world of web-based project management toolsthat allow virtual or distributed teams to work together much moreclosely than in the past. Advances in technology and informationflow have shown that traditional project management techniques areineffective for many of today's projects. This book offers analternative with PM 2.0, an updated approach that aligns moreclosely with the modern workflow. Discover the new project management tools that are changing theworkflow Learn how to improve collaboration with stakeholders Explore new ideas and processes for better projectgovernance Achieve more meaningful information reporting with traditionaltools Project management is an integral component of successfulbusiness operations. With today's technology, teams are no longerlimited by distance or time zones – so why are they beingmanaged with approaches that are? This book provides a frameworkmore relevant to the way people work today. For the project managerlooking to increase efficiency and improve outcomes, ProjectManagement 2.0 provides the information and tools that can makeit happen.