Project Management in Small Business - How to Deliver Successful, Profitable Projects on Time with Your Small Business Clients - Paperback

by Dana J. Goulston (Author), Karl W. Palachuk (Author)

Small Business project management is simply not as complicated as project management in the enterprise. But small business projects have the same challenges as enterprise projects: They need to achieve their goals effectively, on time, and within budget. They also face the same primary challenge - staying inside the scope of the project! This great little book provides a simple process project planning and management process that is easy to learn and easy to teach to your employees, fellow technicians, and sub-contractors. You'll learn to track any project, explain all the stages to clients and employees, and verify that everything is completed on time and under budget. The authors show you a great technique for making sure that scope creep is a thing of the past! Make every project a successful and profitable project! This book jumps right into a down-and-dirty, get-it-done process for creating and implementing projects that work. The primary audience is the technical consultant. But this process, with very little fine-tuning, should work for just about any SMB project. We show you how to -Meet all the project goals -Maintain excellent communication with the client -Manage expectations -Stay profitableand -Avoid scope creep!