Project management: a platform for innovation -- Project leadership: people before process -- Foundation principles of project management -- Agile and waterfall: choose a development process -- Project initiation: turn a problem or opportunity into a business case -- Engage your stakeholders and win their cooperation -- Write the rules: manage expectations and define success -- Risk management: minimize the threats to your project -- A work breakdown structure makes a project manageable -- Realistic scheduling -- Manage agile development with scrum ; The art and science of accurate estimating -- Balance the trade-off among cost, schedule, and scope -- Managing creative projects: insights from media and entertainment -- Build a high-performance project team -- Communicate with project stakeholders -- Change management: engage your stakeholders to maximize value -- Control scope to deliver value -- Measure progress -- Solve common project problems -- Enterprise project management: align projects with strategy -- Requirements: describe the solution target -- Use the quality discipline to hit the target -- Pass the PMP exam -- Appendix A: forms available online -- Appendix B: the detailed planning model.