This book provides a quick and easy guide to the tasks, tools, and skills that will carry you from project launch to project completion.

Everyday Project Management provides the direction you need to apply project management’s time-tested tools for keeping things running on time and under budget. It introduces the wide variety of tasks you will have to tackle, such as assembling a team, mapping out a plan, monitoring progress, keeping your team motivated, and using appropriate planning tools such as project management software or wall charts. In addition, you’ll gain a clearer picture of the project manager’s role in the conception, planning, execution, control, and completion of a project. Each chapter offers essential bite-sized nuggets of wisdom that will help you succeed, outlining the kinds of challenges you’ll encounter, the interpersonal issues that will arise, and ways to stay on time and on budget in pursuit of the desired, quality outcome.