Project Management Tools and Tips

One of the great benefits of membership is the availability of excellent and practical technical publications at reduced prices.

Our outgoing President, Jerry Cockrell, penned a very useful book some years ago called “Practical Project Management – Learning to Manage the Professional.” This softbound volume aims to sharpen your project management skills by focusing on techniques that are proven to be effective in today’s quick-paced, budget-sensitive environment.

If you’re a project manager in the instrumentation and automation fields, you know the pressures to perform faster, better, and cheaper. Yet, if you’re like most technical professionals, you’ve had little or no training in project management.

Starting with an overview of what every project manager needs to know, this authoritative book defines each unique phase of a project and then provides practical knowledge in areas such as budget and cost estimates, contracts, negotiating, team building, scheduling, and choosing project management software. It even devotes special attention to often-neglected, but important project completion and closeout activities, including tips for how to write and make the most of final project reports.

One critic has praised this book stating: “Practical Project Management has been one of the best books I have read, not just because of the key information and tips I have learned from it, but because of the examples and templates that have helped me so much. It is a book made for engineers!”

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Practical Project Management – Learning to Manage the Professional

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