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Learn how to install and use 21st Century BUSINESS SYSTEMS, PROCESSES and TOOLS!
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"Practical Project" provides "how-to" guidelines for both the new and the practicing Project Engineer (PE). This book describes your role as PE throughout your product’s life cycle, starting with program planning activities and the proposal process, through contract negotiation and finalization, system requirements definition, detailed design and development, transition to production, and finally production and support. It describes the processes and tools that you will utilize to support your project coordination and control activities, including the latest Project Management PC software solutions. It then provides you with the most effective approach for performing your duties as the PE.
A section is included which discusses obstacles that you will most likely encounter as your project evolves. Advice is provided for ways to overcome these obstacles. Other parts of the book will, in both serious and humorous context, attempt to cover the topic of how to deal with people.
The topic of what a PE is and why one would want to become a PE is addressed along with the significance of and the need for PEs in today's and tomorrow's business environments.
This book will identify ‘Best Practices" for you to study so that you will have the information you need to become an effective and successful PE. Templates and illustrations are provided to support the basic instruction material.
Once you start to use the processes and tools described herein and follow the recommended approach, you should not stumble or falter the way I did when I started off on my journey to becoming a PE.
My purpose in writing this book is to provide you with an encapsulation of "lessons learned" from my experiences - both good and bad. I will present the elements of the PE discipline in a logical order so as to give you a firm grasp of the "Best Practices" to employ during your projects. Finally, I will provide you with a set of "Project Templates" that you can use to assure that you properly apply these "best practices" and also to assure that you cover all the bases as you plan and execute your projects.
Although the processes, tools and approaches described in this book are presented in the context of projects designed and developed by large corporations, I believe they can also be applied to medium and small sized businesses.
I don’t claim that this book is the "be all" and "end all" for program and project management. I am sure, however, that the processes, tools and approaches provided herein can form the basis for success and outstanding performance in your PE career.
There is no substitute for diligent work and persistence in the accomplishment of any task. However, you must keep your goals in clear focus and not become like the fanatic "who redoubles his efforts even when he has lost sight of the goal".
You must "earn your success" in any endeavor. Project Engineering is no different.