Make Better Decisions While Managing Projects!
Decision-making is critical in project management. Lack of decision-making knowledge, avoidable mistakes, and improper definitions can negatively impact your company's ability to generate profit. The Project Manager's Guide to Making Successful Decisions is a practical handbook that focuses on the significance of project decision-making skills that will all you to reach workable and effective results. This valuable resource highlights numerous decisions necessary to support the project management life cycle, presents various techniques that facilitate the decision-making process, provides an overview of decision analysis as it relates to project management, and much more!
+ Understand different types of decision-making processes and cycles
+ Recognize how to frame the decision and gather better information
+ Define alternatives and assessments to make the right decision
+ Analyze short case studies demonstrating project decision making success

eBook - ePub
The Project Manager's Guide to Making Successful Decisions
- 334 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
The Project Manager's Guide to Making Successful Decisions
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- About the Authors
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1: Good Decision-Making: The Key to Project Success
- Chapter 2: Managerial Decision-Making
- Chapter 3: Decisions and the Project Management Life Cycle
- Chapter 4: Overview of Decision-Making
- Chapter 5: Project Management Decisions
- Chapter 6: Framing the Decision
- Chapter 7: Generating Decision Alternatives
- Chapter 8: Analyzing the Alternatives in Terms of Values and Uncertainty
- Chapter 9: Handling Risk and Uncertainty
- Chapter 10: Training Project Managers as Decision Makers
- Appendix A: Project Success Case Studies
- Appendix B: Project Management Decisions
- Appendix C: An Introduction to Decision Trees
- References
- Additional Reading
- Index
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