New Book Shares Project Management Know-how

An American Technical Publishers product story

Edited by the Buildingtalk editorial team May 30, 2003

Engineers, manufacturers, and anyone who manages projects will gain valuable advice from Project Management: Welcome Opportunity or Awesome Burden? a new book from American Technical Publishers

Project management requires skills to plan and guide the coordinated efforts of complex teams of engineers and other employees.

For a project manager, focus is the most critical issue.

The focus of this book is how to be a hands-on, down-in-the-dirt project manager.

It covers the fundamentals of project management in an easy-to-implement, humorous style.

This concise, how-to, self-help guide will help both aspiring and practising project managers.

In Project Management the author, Robert Edwards, shares project management lessons learned through dramatic hands-on experiences and through years of on-the-job successes and failures.

He developed the content of the book during his 44 years in professional engineering and project management.

The principles and practices detailed are based on real-life experience, not theory, and can be easily applied to the most simple or complex projects.

The book covers such topics as risk assessment, communications, project schedules and budgets, strategic planning, teams, and more.

Project Management also addresses the personal skills, attitudes, ethics, and responsibilities that project managers need in order to succeed.

Readers will gain information that will accelerate their personal and professional confidence and growth as project managers.

Many of the concepts contained in the book can be applied to non-engineering situations involving custom contract work, landscaping, custom home building, etc Project Management can be read in a day and kept for quick reference for a lifetime.

It will serve as a valuable resource for every project manager and every professional engineer.

Project Management is available through American Technical Publishers at www.ameritech.co.uk or by calling +44 (0) 1462 437933.

It sells for £15.00 GBP.