The Project Techniques Toolbox Book

Project management has been around for a long time and many powerful and proven techniques have been developed to help you get the job done. Often the trouble is finding them and most mainstream project approaches, including the UKs PRINCE2TM project method, dont cover many. Instead they say that project techniques are well documented elsewhere. For you, the Project Techniques Toolbox can be that elsewhere. The Project Techniques Toolbox covers more than 50 project techniques including those for the powerful product based planning approach. These are grouped into five categories: Project Planning (including product and activity planning techniques) People Management (such as the RACI Matrix and what makes for demotivation) Business Case (including Discounted Cash Flow - NPV - and Sensitivity Analysis) Risk Management (including the Work Flow Diagram for risk and Ishikawa fish bones) Project Control (including Exception Management, Delivery Checklist and spend control) But it also includes several advice notes on things like where to put contingency in a plan and how to move from product planning to activity planning. Each technique is explained simply and concisely, usually on a single sheet and many have full colour diagrams. The whole set is presented in an A4 ring binder which means you can take out a single page for reference while you are working and you can also add in your own notes to personalise your copy of the toolbox and make it ever more useful. The Project Techniques Toolbox is written by Nick Graham, who is also the author of the book PRINCE2 for Dummies and who will be co-authoring the UK edition of Project Management for Dummies due to be published in early summer 2010. Nick has many years of experience as a trainer and consultant in project management and PRINCE2 and so is well used to getting ideas across in an easy-to-understand way.Read More