Understanding Practical Project Management

Good project management sets standards and ensures that all project participants speak the same language. In this book you will also learn the reasons behind the specific steps taken in the project and how to contribute to making projects a success. It takes you on a journey through all areas of classical, traditional project management and provides insights into agile and hybrid PM. Graphics and comprehensible examples from everyday project work help develop a basic understanding. This book includes interviews with experienced project managers such as Arie van Bennekum, Peter B. Taylor, Petra Berleb or Tobias Rohrbach and an extensive glossary with the most important technical terms.

Content:



- The five standard phases from DIN 69901: initialization, definition, planning, control, and completion.

- Agile methods and hybrid process models

- Which soft skills are important

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Michaela Flick



For more than 20 years Michaela Flick is working on international projects. She is training managers and project people in the areas of leadership and project management. Her philosophy of life: "We cannot change the direction of the wind, but we can adjust the sails to reach our destination." (Aristotle)











Mathias Flick



Mathias Flick looks back on 25 years of profound project management experience. At Lutz & Grub Academy he leads the project management division being responsible for the conception and implementation of project management related courses and trainings. "First, have a definite, clear practical ideal, a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends, wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end." (Aristotle)