Description:This updated, second edition of "The Project Manager's Partner" provides information on the essential skills, knowledge and practices needed to deliver quality results - on time and within budget. This handbook uses 20 key actions and results to explain how to: calculate the project lifecycle, divided into specific project phases and a final deliverables date; determine the broad actions needed to complete the project; and figure out the specific steps needed to acomplish essential actions. The book includes guidelines, worksheets, checklists and examples that should help the manager in any field, at any level of the organization.