This fully updated edition features new templates, forms, and examples and complies with official PMI and PMBOK standards for project management.

The step-by-step guide to becoming a successful project manager. By systematically managing goals and resources, any project, large or small, complicated or straightforward, can be achieved with great profitability. A certified project management professional shares the latest theories, procedures, and software tools available in this fully updated and revised guide including the newest directive from the Project Management Institute. An invaluable guide for any manager, it clearly explains the best way to approach any project, and also gives all the information necessary to those interested in passing the test to become a certified Project Management Professional. ? Includes the most current terms and concepts on the certification test, and the latest software tools from Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, and Primavera. ? Advice from an expert with useful, real-life anecdotes from the field.

You're no idiot, of course. You keep track of your family finances, help your kids with their projects, and even find time to plant a vegetable garden in the backyard. But when it comes to running a project at work, you feel like you'd rather clean out your septic tank. Don't give up yet! The Complete Idiot's Guide to Project Management gives you the special tools you need to seize a leadership role, demonstrate your organizational skills, and meet problems head-on to achieve your goals. In this complete Idiot's Guide, you get:

• Illustrates how to make money and keep it with time-honored strategies • Insightful real-life anecdotes to illustrate key concepts

Discusses management models and concepts, strategies for sharing knowledge, and ways to implement the concept within a company.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Team-Building shows first-time managers and employees how to work together as a smooth, well-oiled machine. The book shows how to: -- Avoid and manage conflict. Inspire creativity. -- Coax employees to help team members who aren't performing. -- Get everyone to pitch in. -- Gain unprecedented results and make the team enjoy going to work.