Project Management Handbook

A Step-by-Step Approach

You are holding a guide to project management, designed for project managers of all levels in every industry. This project management handbook combines elements of the simplest and most complex project management approaches and processes, including those contained in PMI®’s PMBOK®.

This handbook provides guidance through a simple seven-step approach called SUCCESS, resulting in efficient and effective project management planning and execution, with predictable and certain results. With the purchase of this workbook, you are eligible to receive a complementary MS Excel® file, which contains the templates referenced in these chapters.

Rod Baxter, principal of Value Generation Partners, is author of Operational Excellence Handbook and the SUCCESS Series of handbooks. In his career, he has led operational excellence, transformation, and value generation journeys with small to Fortune 500 global companies – representing service, health care, manufacturing, and higher education. Through these experiences, he traveled the globe, facilitating improvement initiatives with colleagues and teams in Europe, Asia, Middle East, and the Americas. As a Value Generation Partner, Rod is a workshop facilitator and content specialist.