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A Project Manager’s Book of Tools and Techniques

This book is 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 …

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A Project Manager’s Book of Tools and Techniques

You will not see all the 125+ techniques that are in the Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) described in this book. Some of the techniques are just too vague to describe, such as expert judgment, quality improvement methods, or meetings. Some techniques are so descriptive that you don’t really need anyone to explain them, such as ground rules, financing, or feedback. Some techniques are not included because they are general management techniques, for which volumes have already been written, for example, leadership, negotiation, and team building. What you will find in this book is a description of 57 techniques that are used in managing projects. Some of them are used on almost every project, such as analogous estimating and rolling-wave planning. Others are more specialized, such as what-if analysis and the to-complete performance index. The techniques in this book are focused on predictive life cycles; in other words, we did not include Agile or adaptive techniques. This decision was made based on surveying potential users who rated the Agile techniques as low value, because Agile techniques are best described in a book that is dedicated to the topic of Agile