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Everyday Project Management: Everyday Business Skills, #1
Everyday Project Management: Everyday Business Skills, #1
Everyday Project Management: Everyday Business Skills, #1
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Projects involving billions of dollars require serious project management by highly qualified and experienced project managers.
You probably won't be doing any of that if you're looking at this book, but that doesn't mean you can't benefit from applying the principles of project management to your everyday work or personal projects.
In Everyday Project Management, author Peter Mulraney uses a conversational style to demystify project management for untrained project managers, and gives you access to tools the professional use - without having to read hundreds of pages or take a test.
Everyday Project Management is informed by Peter's twenty years of playing in the project space in banking and government, and his application of project management principles to writing and publishing numerous books.

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Release dateDec 6, 2016
ISBN9780994562418
Everyday Project Management: Everyday Business Skills, #1
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Peter Mulraney

Peter grew up in country South Australia, before going to Adelaide to complete high school and attend university. While he was studying in the city, he met an Italian girl and forgot to go home. Now he's married and has two grown children. He worked as a teacher, an insurance agent, a banker and a public servant. Now, he gets to write every day instead. He is the author of the Inspector West and Stella Bruno Investigates crime series; the Living Alone series, for men who find themselves alone at the end of a long term relationship; and the Everyday Business Skills series for people looking to take advantage of his knowledge and skills. As a mystic, he has written several books which explores some of life's deeper questions, including Sharing the Journey: Reflections of a Reluctant Mystic, and My Life is My Responsibility: Insights for Conscious Living.

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    Everyday Project Management - Peter Mulraney

    Everyday Project Management

    Everyday Project Management

    Peter Mulraney

    Copyright © 2016 by Peter Mulraney

    All rights reserved.

    No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

    ISBN: 978-0-9945624-1-8

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    To RJ Adams and Shawn Manaher from bookmarketingtools for their encouragement and support.

    Contents

    Foreword

    Project Overview

    Project Management Framework

    Everyday Project Management

    Project Definition

    Initiate - what am I doing?

    Plan - how will I do it?

    Execute - let's do it!

    Close - it's done

    Closing early or pulling the pin on a project

    Managing a project for yourself

    Managing a project for someone else

    Overview for event organisers

    Overview for writers

    Final thoughts

    A note from Peter

    Also by Peter Mulraney

    Foreword

    Projects involving billions of dollars require serious project management by highly qualified and experienced project managers.

    Most of us won't be doing any of that, but that doesn't mean we can't benefit from applying the principles of project management to our everyday work or personal projects.

    I was introduced to project management at Adelaide Bank during a manager development program, and undertook formal training in project management with the Australian Taxation Office.

    While I was working for those institutions, I didn't get to manage any billion dollar projects, but I did manage or participate in a number of administrative projects, and I applied project management principles in the execution of my duties as both an auditor and as a portfolio manager of audit procedures.

    These days, I apply those same project management principles to my writing projects and, with this book, you'll be able to apply them to your projects, too.

    The first project management textbook I studied was a tome of several hundred pages, filled with a lot of terminology which took me a considerable time investment to comprehend.

    This is not one of those books.

    Despite all the mystique, project management is not all that complicated, even if some projects are. In my experience, most of the stress associated with projects comes from money, time and communication issues. Project management is all about reducing or eliminating those issues.

    Project Overview

    The development and management of a project involves a series of logical steps. The steps set out below apply whether you are managing a project for yourself or for someone else, however, the extent of the work required for each step will depend upon the nature of the project.

    Concept development

    Somebody has a bright idea or sees a possible solution to a problem.

    Project definition

    The idea or potential solution is described in detail.

    Endorsement

    The person funding

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