Develop effective measures for scheduling and controlling projects as you put the tools of project management to work. In this book you?ll focus on managing the constraints you face in any project: limits on time, human resources, materials, budget, and specifications. Discover proven ways to work within your identified constraints, without letting predefined limits curtail creativity or innovation. From the first page, you?ll get hands-on experience, practicing your skills in building project requirements and the work breakdown structure. You?ll learn a sound, logical framework for scheduling and controlling project activities. And you?ll master techniques for estimating, forecasting, budgeting, monitoring, controlling, analyzing, and reporting costs and interpreting the meaning of earned-value data.