Target Audience
In general, my books, training sessions, and this website contain tools, articles, and information designed to help newcomers to the field of project management (PM). These materials can also benefit those supervisors or trainers who are trying to help these newcomers learn how to manage projects better. You are a member of my target audience if you share some of these characteristics:
- You are responsible for managing a project of some kind and would like the project to achieve quality results, on-time and within budget.
- You have training or experience in a particular field such as marketing, engineering, accounting, medicine, computer installation, programming, desktop publishing, or one of a thousand other professions.
- You know your profession and you have a pretty good idea of the kinds of results (i.e., the finished product or customer impact) your project should achieve.
- You have little or no formal training in project management.
- You’re not quite sure about all the things you need to do to manage your project.
- You would like to know enough about project management to be able to figure out what a project manager needs to do, with whom, and when to do it.
- You are probably serving as project manager at the same time you are making your own contribution to the project as a specialist in your field (i.e., you may be managing the project on a part-time basis).
- You have no need to learn all the sophisticated management techniques that a project manager would need in order to manage a billion-dollar construction project or to land a space craft on Mars.
- You want some simple, easy-to-use PM tools and strategies and you want clear, practical information about PM.
- You or your supervisor recognize that you need to establish a foundation of basic project management habits that may later be enhanced and adjusted to fit your industry or organization.
- You are a trainer or supervisor of project managers and you want to help them, and your entire organization, develop better PM skills and strategies.
- You are a student of PM — a beginner who wants to learn some basic, useful stuff about project management.
Through my website, books, workshops, Inspired Project Teams blog, and public presentations, I’m continually working to demystify PM and make PM newbies more effective!
[See my related article: The Accidental Project Manager... encouragement for all PM newbies!]
