Project Management Step by Step: How to Plan and Manage a Highly Successful Project

How to use this book

This book is called Project Management: Step by Step because it describes project management as a series of steps. Each of the steps is immediately useful and takes you through the life of a project. The book follows the sequence of steps you should follow in completing your project.

You don’t need to read this book end-to-end and then apply it. Chapter 1 provides some basic information that is helpful to understand before you get started. Chapters 2 to 5 provide the step-by-step guide to project management. You can either read a chapter at a time, applying the approach described as you learn it or read it end-to-end and then do your project.

I have tried to avoid using project management jargon as far as possible. In many ...