Starting out

Starting Out in Project Management: A Study Guide for the APM Introductory Certificate in Project Management 2nd edition

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Starting Out in Project Management is a helpful guide to project management and a detailed study guide that will support readers wishing to undertake the APM’s Introductory Certificate in Project Management qualification. It provides close and direct support for the syllabus to the APM Introductory Certificate in Project Management.

The book is designed to be used in a modular fashion. Readers can refer to the syllabus and match each chapter to the sequence presented in the syllabus. They can also read it from start to finish and begin to experience the dynamics of a real world project.

Embedded in every chapter is a set of reflective questions to help readers link the theory with their own experience as well as a detailed case study, which runs throughout the book, and is used to illustrate the key learning objectives in the syllabus. 

Contents:

1. Project management
2. Programme management and portfolio management
3. Organisational roles
4. Project life cycles
5. Project context
6. Stakeholder management
7. Project success and benefits management
8. Communication
9. Business case
10. Project management plan
11. Scope management
12. Project quality management
13. Estimating
14. Scheduling
15. Resource management
16. Teamwork and leadership
17. Procurement
18. Project risk management
19. Issue management
20. Change control
21. Configuration management
22. Information management
23. Handover and closeout
24. Project reviews

Appendices:

• Introductory Certificate syllabus
• Starting Out in Project Management mapped against the syllabus
• Comparison of the 4th and 5th edition of the APM Body of Knowledge
• Glossary of project management terms
   
  

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