Shortcuts to Success: Project Management in the Real World 
by Elizabeth Harrin
BCS | May 2013 | ISBN-10: 1780171714 | True PDF | 242 pages | 25.1 mb

Anything from an office move to the Olympic Games can be termed a project, and 97 per cent of successful projects are led by an experienced project manager. Presenting over 250 years of professional project management experience in a highly accessible format, this entertaining yet practical book will help project managers get up to speed quickly with good practice, avoid pitfalls and deliver business value. This fully updated edition reflects changes to working practices such as the use of social media and collaboration tools. "Lives up to the 'real world' promise in its title, providing concise, practical advice for leaders of large projects, small projects, and everything between. The interwoven examples from actual projects illustrate clearly why the guidance provided here matters." Tom Kendrick, MBA, PMP, Project Management Director, UC Berkeley Extension, California.

About the Author
Elizabeth Harrin MA MBCS FAPM is a project and programme manager with a decade of experience managing IT and business change projects. She is the author of Social Media for Project Managers (PMI, 2010) and writes the award-winning blog A Girl's Guide to Project Management (www.pm4girls.elizabeth-harrin.com). Elizabeth is a PRINCE2, MSP and P3O Practitioner and a member of PMI. 

CONTENTS
List of figures and tables x
Author xi
Foreword xii
Acknowledgements xiv
Glossary xv
Preface xviii
SECTION 1: MANAGING PROJECT BUDGETS 1
SECTION 2: MANAGING PROJECT SCOPE 43
SECTION 3: MANAGING PROJECT TEAMS 103
SECTION 4: MANAGING PROJECT PLANS 139
SECTION 5: MANAGING YOURSELF 169
Further reading for this section 201
Join the conversation 202
Share these ideas 202
Appendix 1: Risk log 203
Appendix 2: Issue log 205
Appendix 3: Change log 207
Appendix 4: Foreword to the first edition 209
End notes/References 211
Index 218