Project Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know covers Project Management concepts in concise and easy-to-understand manner for both practising and budding Project Managers. This book includes PRACTICAL APPROACHES and BEST PRACTICES, including TEMPLATES, to be applied to contemporary projects. The topics covered are: a) Overview of Project Management b) Project Initiation - Constraints, Stakeholders, PMO, Life Cycles c) Project Planning - WBS, PERT/CPM, Budgeting, Risk d) Project Execution - Audits, HR, Communications e) Project Monitoring & Controlling - Tracking, Quality Control, Change Control f) Project Closure This Self Learning Management Series intends to give a jump start to working professionals, whose job roles demand to have the knowledge imparted in a B-school but haven't got a chance to visit one. This series is designed to address every aspect of business from HR to Finance to Marketing to Operations, be it any industry. Each book includes basic fundamentals, important concepts, standard and well-known principles as well as practical ways of application of the subject matter. The distinctiveness of the series lies in that all the relevant information is bundled in a compact form that is very easy to interpret.