Managing Projects: A Practical Guide for Learning Professionals

The need for project management competencies among learning and development and other groups of professionals is increasing as companies adjust to new and continuing economic and global competition demands This book offers organizations a pathway to build practical competencies in the discipline of project management using targeted processes, tools, techniques and influencing skills for the types of projects most organization employees manage. For this book, these projects are characterized as small to medium size projects that last from 1 day to 6 months with 1-10 members on the team who are not necessarily dedicated project team members.