Everyday Project Management

Business & Investing

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Synopsis

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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Author Biography

Peter Mulraney is a crime writing mystic from Adelaide, Australia. He worked as a teacher, an insurance agent, a banker, and a public servant before turning to full-time writing. He is the author of the Inspector West & Stella Bruno Investigates crime series, several books as a mystic, including My Life is My Responsibility: Insights for Conscious Living, and the Living Alone & Everyday Business Skills series of self-help books.

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Author Insight

Project management for all.

One of the fun parts of project management is playing with Post-it Notes. They help you see that big jobs can be broken down into lists of small activities, and make it easy to work out the order in which things can, and in some cases must, be done. Even professional project managers start with Post-it Notes. Everyday project managers don't really need much else, unless like me, they like playing with spreadsheets.

Book Excerpt

Everyday Project Management

You do not need formal project management certification to manage everyday projects. All you need is common sense and a framework, like the everyday project management framework, to work with.

You do not need a formal project to apply project management principles to your work. These principles work for any task that requires the completion of a series of activities.

Project management is simply applying self-discipline to your work habits. It’s about taking the time to define what you’re setting out to do, and planning how you will do it, before launching into the doing.

You don’t need any fancy equipment or software. All you need to get started is a pencil and paper or a pen and Post-it Notes. For most everyday projects, a spreadsheet is about as sophisticated as you need to go for planning and reporting purposes. You can even draw a critical path map in most spreadsheet applications, but the easiest way to construct a critical path map is to use Post-it Notes on a wall or a whiteboard.

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Peter Mulraney

Everyday Project Management

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Author Biography

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Project management for all.

Book Excerpt

Everyday Project Management

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