Project Management for Dummies, 2nd UK Edition

Part V

Taking Your Project Management to the Next Level

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In this part …

• Manage multiple projects with confidence, understand programmes and portfolios, and understand too the implications for your project of being in a multi-project environment.
• Recognise software’s role in project planning, control and communication, taking on board its benfits and limitations.
• Come to grips with Earned Value Management and all the terms and formulas that go with it. Understand the how-to of Earned Value Management, and work out the earned value of your project.
• Understand project governance in the context of corporate governance, and what’s involved in implementing good project governance.
• Take on board the guidance given by ISO 21500, the international project management standard, and put that standard into practice on your project.