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Charvat provides lots of first-hand anecdotes to clarify the tips that fill this assertive guide to project management. The profession and implementation of the project manager are described in chapters that detail project strategy; characteristics of a good IT project manager; maintaining an overview of the project; formulating a project analysis; and planning, executing, controlling, implementing, and closing the project.
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Project Management Nation: Tools, Techniques, and Goals for the New and Practicing IT Project Manager by Jason Charvat ISBN: 0471139262 Guides every project manager in responding to challenges promptly, with certainty and expertise. Table of Contents Project Management Nation—Tools, Techniques, and Goals for the New and Practicing IT Project manager Foreword Preface Chapter 1 - Understanding Project Strategy Chapter 2 - Becoming an IT Project Manager Chapter 3 - Project Concepts Chapter 4 - The Project Analysis Chapter 5 - Planning for Success Chapter 6 - Executing the Project Chapter 7 - Controlling the Project Chapter 8 - Implementing the Project Chapter 9 - Closing the Project Glossary Index List of Figures List of Tables Project Management Nation—Tools, Techniques, and Goals for the New and Practicing IT Project manager Jason Charvat John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Copyright ?2002 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, except as permitted under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers,