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Project Management Tools & Techniques; Expertise from Story-Based Learning. The book teaches the 44 best practices in project management using 132 stories of project managers actually applying them in projects of differing complexity. You learn not only how to do each best practice but when to use it. You learn how to conduct meetings with clients, executives and stakeholders by reading the dialogue and hearing how the expert PM handles questions and objections. You learn project planning for small projects done within a department, up to larger projects that involve multiple functional areas. Last you see planning done for projects taking place across borders of countries with global objectives.Many of the best practices focus on managing your team, including contractors and employees of the performing organization. They focus on problems and opportunities that routinely arise in projects. Other best practices focus on risk management, procurement, planning techniques, scheduling, cost estimating, controlling scope and much more.