Project Management Checklists For Dummies

Want to take your career to the next level and be a master of planning, organising, motivating and controlling resources to meet your goals? This easy-to-use guide has you covered! Project Management Checklists For Dummies takes the intimidation out of project management, and shows you step by step how to use rigorous self-check questions to save significant time—and headaches—in managing your projects effectively.

Project Management Checklists For Dummies gives you to-do lists, hands-on checklists and helpful guidance for managing every phase of a project from start to finish. Before you know it, you'll be a star project manager as you organise, estimate and schedule projects in today's time-crunched, cost-conscious global business environment.

• Includes useful to-do lists and checklists to ensure all the necessary steps are completed
• Offers simple exercises to help clarify needs and requirements along the way
• Provides templates to complete, which can also be downloaded from Dummies.com and customised to suit your unique requirements
• Supplies hints and tips to help you along the way

If you're a project manager—or any professional charged with managing a project and wondering where to start—Project Management Checklists For Dummies is your ready-made tool for success.

Part I: The Questions 7

Chapter 1: Getting Started with Algebra Basics 9

Chapter 2: Solving Some Equations and Inequalities 15

Chapter 3: Function Basics 21

Chapter 4: Graphing and Transforming Functions 29

Chapter 5: Polynomials 37

Chapter 6: Exponential and Logarithmic Functions 45

Chapter 7: Trigonometry Basics 53

Chapter 8: Graphing Trig Functions 61

Chapter 9: Getting Started with Trig Identities 67

Chapter 10: Continuing with Trig Identities 73

Chapter 11: Working with Triangles and Trigonometry 79

Chapter 12: Complex Numbers and Polar Coordinates 89

Chapter 13: Conic Sections 97

Chapter 14: Systems of Equations and Inequalities 103

Chapter 15: Sequences and Series 111

Chapter 16: Introducing Limits and Continuity 117

Part II: The Answers 125

Chapter 17: Answers 127

Index

Nick Graham founded the consultancy and training company, Inspirandum Ltd and is a member of the Association for Project Management and of the Institute of Directors. This is his fourth For Dummies book.

Learn to:

• Develop projects with confidence
• Use checklists and self-check questions to save time in your projects
• Make sure all key actions and steps are carried out
• Complete vital project documents (with handy templates)

Your ready-made tool for project management success

Want to become a master of planning, organising, motivating and controlling resources to meet your goals? Packed with handy checklists, this easy-to-use guide takes the pain out of project management, showing you step by step how to use rigorous self-check questions to save significant time – and headaches – in managing your projects effectively.

• Got projects? Check! – get expert guidance and find out how to use checklists in line with best practices and the ISO standard
• Sketch it out – get lots of checklists that will help you think a project through, from identifying the benefits and justification of the potential project to who should do what if the project goes ahead
• It’s a plan – use handy checklists and templates to develop the range of plans you’ll need in your project: resource, risk, quality, communications, stakeholder and procurement
• Be in control – discover helpful checklists for keeping control of your project through every stage of its lifecycle
• Master the miscellany – take over someone else’s project partway through or audit someone else’s project with ease and confidence

Open the book and find:

• How to use checklists and templates in projects
• The best way to kick off a project
• Checklists and templates for planning
• The importance of roles and responsibilities
• Time-tested project management techniques worth knowing
• Ten convincing reasons to use a method