Project Management for Practice: A Guide and Toolbox for Successful Projects

In the 2nd edition, this book conveys updated content and, in addition to classic project management, now also agile project management in a practical manner and serves as a toolbox for projects.

To this end, the most important terms and phases of project management are first explained in a standard-compliant manner.

Tips and hints, examples, templates and checklists from project practice in the automotive and IT environment complement the contents.

For student readers, there is also an extensive question catalog to consolidate the knowledge learned.

This gives readers good and quick access to the topic of project management and helps them to be able to carry out their projects successfully.

Daud Alam, graduate economist, born in Herat, Afghanistan, in 1955, began his career as a programmer for a Siemens subsidiary. The second professional stage was the software house Wesser-Informatik in Oberaichen. He then worked for the Project Management Academy in Stuttgart as a project manager. Most recently, he worked for Daimler AG for almost 20 years. He is currently commissioned as an IT expert by Daimler AG and also conducts seminars in Germany and abroad for AKKA Technologies SE and the Daimler Bildungsakademie. He taught the first edition of the book for five semesters at the Albstadt-Sigmaringen University of Applied Sciences. He lectures for Daimler AG students at the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University and is a lecturer at Pforzheim University.Uwe Gühl, Dr.-Ing. Dipl. Inform., born 1966 from Offenbach/Main, Germany, works as a freelancer in the fields of IT project management of international on/off-shore projects, IT quality and software test management as well as moderation and international team development. After an apprenticeship and work in social security, he studied computer science and earned a doctorate in mechanical engineering. He researched and worked in companies in the automotive, banking, retail, logistics and media industries as well as at universities both in Germany and internationally in Switzerland, France, U.S.A., India and Thailand.