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Provides you with instructions on how to control a budget, choose and lead a team, create a workable schedule, and more....

Emphasizing the "people" side of project management, this welcome guide shows you how to accomplish project goals while continuously dealing with ambiguity, change, and time pressures all along the way. Packed with easy-to-understand principles, tools, and techniques, Project Management Practitioner's Handbook delivers the know-how that lets you steer any type of project, in any industry, to exactly the right outcome. At the end of most chapters, you'll find a list of "Questions for Getting Started" that will help you to identify what steps you need to take - and what resources you may already have in place - to accomplish the project segment presented in that chapter. Project Management Practitioner's Handbook is an A-to-Z resour...

A comprehensive guide to analyzing the business rationale for WLANs Evaluate the business rationale behind the deployment of WLANs, including return on investment (ROI), net present value, payback period, and total cost of ownership Develop a robust execution plan to deploy and operate the WLAN Understand the high-level technical issues of deploying and managing your WLAN from a business decision-maker's perspective Maximize the positive impact of supplementary and complementary services such as voice, video, and guest WLAN access Identify potential security threats and develop strategies to mitigate attacks Learn methodological and technical best practices from WLAN deployment case studies featuring real-world, enterprise-class businesses and inst...

This text aims to provide engineers with an understanding of contemporary management concepts and their applications in a technical organization. It covers: product selection and management; engineering design and product costing; concurrent engineering; value management; configuration management; risk management; re-engineering strategies and benefits; managing creativity and innovation; information technology management; and software management. There are a large number of solved examples highlighted throughout the text. This book is intended for use by: professional engineers; technology managers; senior-level undergraduate and graduate students; and instructors of engineering / technology management....