Project Management Checklists For Dummies

Your must-have tool for perfect project management. 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. It includes useful to-do lists and checklists to ensure all the necessary steps are completed. It offers simple exercises to help clarify needs and requirements along the way. It provides templates to complete, which can also be downloaded from Dummies.com and customised to suit your unique requirements. It 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.

Table of Contents

Part I: Understanding Projects and Checklists
Chapter 1: Using Checklists and Templates in Projects
Chapter 2: The Key Documents
Chapter 3: Using Project Standards

Part II: Checklists for Kick Off
Chapter 4: Kicking Off the Project
Chapter 5: Checking the Justification and Benefits
Chapter 6: Tackling the Roles and Responsibilities

Chapter 7: Templates for Kick Off
Part III: Checklists for Planning
Chapter 8: Creating the Plans
Chapter 9: Establishing Controls
Chapter 10: Managing the People
Chapter 11: Templates for Planning

Part IV: Checklists for Project Control
Chapter 12: Checking Each Stage
Chapter 13: Stage Reporting
Chapter 14: Conducting a Stage Gate
Chapter 15: Reviewing the Project
Chapter 16: Templates for Control
Chapter 17: Templates for Reporting

Part V: More Project Checklists
Chapter 18: Taking Over an Existing Project
Chapter 19: Auditing Someone Else’s Project
Chapter 20: Finding Useful Techniques

Part VI: The Part of Tens
Chapter 21: Ten Sets of AKAs
Chapter 22: Ten Tips for Effective Planning
Chapter 23: Ten Tips for Estimating