Pickerden Anita. Planning and Managing your Work Based Project. A Guide For Students

Bookboon, 2015. — 50 p. — ISBN: 978-87-403-1044-3.
Written for college and university students, this simple guide to project tools and techniques is an ideal introduction to the ‘Work Based Project’. Dr Pickerden invites the reader to use their own project idea as an example as they work through the various steps to a successful project. Following these steps, and working through the accompanying examples and exercises, should help the student project manager to avoid many of the usual pitfalls, and emerge with a successful project and a decent mark for the course assignment.Pre-Planning: What to do before you start your planning.
Who should do what? Roles and responsibilities within the project team.
Stakeholder identification and analysis – What do people want from this project?
Project organisation and general planning.
Starting to Plan: Goals, Objectives and Tasks.
Risk Management: What can go wrong with your project?
Monitoring Progress.
At the end of the project.
Test your understanding.
Useful Links.
About Dr Anita Pickerden.