No-Nonsense Guide to Project Management

<p >This book provides a &#145;no-nonsense&#146; guide to project
management which will enable library and information professionals to lead or take part in a wide range
of projects from large-scale multi-organisation complex projects through to
relatively simple local ones.</p>
<p >Barbara Allan has fully revised and updated her classic 2004
title &#145;<i>Project Management&#146;</i> to
incorporate<i> </i>considerable developments
during the past decade, including: the development and wide-scale acceptance of
formal project management methodologies; the use of social media to communicate
and disseminate information about projects and the large shift in the types of
project library and information workers may be involved in.</p>
<p >The text is supported by practical case studies drawn from a
wide range of LIS organizations at local, regional, national and international
levels. These examples provide an insight into good practice for the
practitioner, from an individual working in a voluntary organization on an
extremely limited budget, to someone involved in an international project.</p>
<p >Content covered includes:</p>
<p >
</p>
<ul>
<li>an introduction to project management, project workers and
the library and information profession</li>
<li>different approaches to project management, the project
cycle, the people side of projects and management of change</li>
<li>discussion of project methodologies, project management
software, open source software, collaborative working software and use of
social media.</li>
<li>project initiation, communication, analysis and project
briefs</li>
<li>developing project infra-structure, scheduling, working out
the finances and carrying out a detailed risk analysis</li>
<li>implementation, monitoring and reporting and identifying
potential problems</li>
<li>current approaches to funding, bidding and tendering, and
taking part in audits</li>
<li>working in partnerships, in diverse and virtual teams, and
managing change. &#160;</li>
</ul>
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<p ><strong><span calibri","sans-serif";="" mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:="" "times="" new="" roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi"="">Readership</span></strong>:
If you are an LIS professional involved in project work of any kind, whether on
a managerial, practical, academic or research level, this is an invaluable resource
for you.</p>