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Product Description: Struggling to apply the principles of PRINCE2 in practice? Need guidance on adapting the process for smaller projects? PRINCE2 for Practitioners provides the solution. This practical reference, matching the details and requirements of the 2009 PRINCE2 manual, contains new and updated real-life examples and case studies, links between related components and processes, and clear guidance on how to fine-tune the method to help you manage projects successfully, whatever the context and size...read more

Product Description: A combination of art and skill that results in the balancing of project objectives against restraints of time, budget, and quality, effective project management requires skill and experience as well as many tools and techniques. Project Management Tools and Techniques: A Practical Guide describes these tools and techniques and how to use them, giving students the strong foundation they need to develop the skills and experience needed for a successful career in project management...read more

Product Description: Designed to be used in tandem with the latest edition of the PMBOK® Guide, this comprehensive volume closely follows the PMBOK® Guide's approach to style, structure and naming, while providing readers a balanced view of methods, tools, and techniques for managing software projects across the life cycle continuum from highly predictive life cycles to highly adaptive life cycles...read more

This book provides you with a comprehensive overview of the functions and customizing options of SAP Project System, showing readers how best to manage the entire project lifecycle—from start to finish. Based on various typical project phases, each chapter describes in great detail how you can maintain control of your projects from structuring, to planning and budgeting, to monitoring the project progress, to settlement. Topics that are applicable to multiple project phases, such as reporting, are also covered in detail. In addition, you’ll uncover options for integrating SAP Project System with other tools, such as MS Project, cProjects, and xRPM. The book provides consultants, project leaders who use SAP PS, members of SAP PS implementation projects, and key users with highly detailed information on the functions and configuration options of SAP Project System. Although the book is based on Release SAP ERP 2005 (ECC 6.0), it is also very useful for older releases (4.6C and above). Highlights include: Structures and Master Data: Networks, Milestones, Statuses, Editing Functions, Version Planning Functions: Dates, Resources, Materials, Costs, Revenues Budget Project Execution Processes: Actual Dates, Confirmations, Procurement, Billing, Project Progress Period-End Closing: Overhead Rates, Interest Calculation, Results Analysis, Cost Forecast, Settlement Reporting Integration Scenarios with Other Project Management Tools

Product Description: Describes the PRINCE2 project management method which provides detailed guidance on how to set up, organise, manage, control and deliver your projects on time, within budget and to the right quality. The processes and techniques in PRINCE2 will help your project team cope with the risks and opportunities of today's rapidly changing environment...read more

Product Description: Managing a project can be stressful enough without the added difficulty of coordinating project members working from different sites--or even continents! Managing Virtual Projects outlines techniques, practices, and products that are being effectively used by virtual project managers around the globe...read more

A guide for making information technology work for any company Often corporate IT projects fail because the underlying assumptions about a program are unrealistic. Revolutionizing IT helps organizations find success for their IT projects by showing them how to create and reach realistic goals. A combination of real case histories and examples helps show how this strategy controls both expectations and costs. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: Learn about changes and enhancements to Release 8.1 of SAS/OR software, including enhancements to the CPM, DTREE, GANTT, NETDRAW, NETFLOW, and PM procedures. Also included is documentation for two experimental procedures: PROC BOM, which performs bill-of-material processing, and PROC INTPOINT, which performs optimization using the Interior Point algorithm...read more

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Product Description: This book describes the PROJMAN menu system, a user-friendly interface to many of the project management capabilities in SAS/OR software. This menu system can perform project data management, scheduling, and report generation. It allows you to produce charts and diagrams in line printer, full-screen, and high-resolution graphics form...read more

Product Description: Learn from this series of examples how easy it is to use SAS/OR software to manage projects! Each chapter contains a complete project management scenario and describes how to use the three procedures GANTT, CPM, and NETDRAW to perform the necessary project management tasks as well as other procedures in the SAS System that are commonly used for managing project resources...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: More and more, microcomputers are being used both on- and off-site to track schedules, costs, and project sequences in the construction industry. This practical guide aims to help managers and engineers to select the correct hardware and software for specific applications...read more

Product Description: Book by Bentley, Colin