The Principles of Project Management

THE PRINCIPLES OF

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

BY MERI WILLIAMS

RUN PROJECTS ON TIME AND TO BUDGET USING THIS SIMPLE STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE

Summary of Contents

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv 1. So What Is Project Management Anyway? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2. Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 3. Getting The Job Done . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 4. Keeping It Smooth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 5. Following Through . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 A. Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 B. Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 C. Professional Qualifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

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The Principles of Project Management

by Meri Williams

Copyright ? 2008 SitePoint Pty. Ltd.

Expert Reviewer: Drew McLellan Expert Reviewer: Kevin Lawver Managing Editor: Simon Mackie Technical Editor: Toby Somerville Technical Director: Kevin Yank Printing History:

First Edition: February 2008

Editor: Georgina Laidlaw Index Editor: Fred Brown Cover Design: Alex Walker

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About the Author

Meri spends her days managing projects at a large multinational, and her evenings writing at Geek | Manager1 and developing web sites. She loves motorbikes, shooting, tattoos, and going home to beautiful South Africa whenever possible. In her spare time she is an enthusiastic gamer, a novice surfer, and a keen cook.

About the Expert Reviewers

Kevin Lawver has worked for AOL for thirteen years, building web "stuff" most of that time. As a reward for all that work, AOL lets him work with Ruby on Rails, serve as AOL's AC Representative to the W3C and build lots of fun stuff like . When he's not working or traveling, Kevin blogs with his wife over at .

Drew McLellan is Senior Web Developer and Director at UK-based web development agency . He holds the title of Group Lead at the Web Standards Project, and likes to bang on about microformats whenever the opportunity arises. Drew keeps a personal site at , covering web development issues and themes.

About the Technical Editor

Toby Somerville is a serial webologist, who caught the programming bug back in 2000. For his sins, he has been a pilot, a blacksmith, a web applications architect, and a freelance web developer. In his spare time he likes to kite buggy and climb stuff.

About the Technical Director

As Technical Director for SitePoint, Kevin Yank oversees all of its technical publications--books, articles, newsletters, and blogs. He has written over 50 articles for SitePoint, but is best known for his book, Build Your Own Database Driven Website Using PHP & MySQL. Kevin lives in Melbourne, Australia, and enjoys performing improvised comedy theater and flying light aircraft.

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