About this ebook
Practical Project Management: From Idea to Completion is a hands-on guide for turning a useful idea into a defined, planned, delivered, and properly closed project. It focuses on decisions and routines that teams can use in workplaces, small businesses, community initiatives, industrial environments, and personal projects.
The book follows a project from the first question—“Is this worth doing?”—through scope definition, feasibility, stakeholder alignment, planning, budgeting, scheduling, risk management, procurement, execution, monitoring, change control, quality assurance, handover, and lessons learned.
Rather than treating project management as paperwork, the book presents it as a practical discipline: make the goal clear, agree what is included, assign ownership, plan realistic work, communicate early, use evidence to monitor progress, and close the project so that its benefits can be sustained.
Each chapter includes practical examples, decision prompts, tools, and checklists. Adapt the templates to your organisation, scale, industry, and governance requirements.
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About the Author
Chetan Singh Chauhan is an engineering and operations professional with experience in maintenance, industrial coordination, and management-related work. His professional interests include practical problem-solving, operational discipline, planning, continuous improvement, and making management knowledge accessible to working professionals.
Through this book, the author aims to help readers understand project management in clear language and apply its principles to everyday work. The examples are designed to connect management concepts with real decisions: what to do first, who should own a task, how to recognise a warning sign, and when a project is ready to close.
Author note: Readers may adapt the checklists and worksheets for their own internal use. The author’s biography should be updated before publication if a publisher requires verified credentials, a website, or contact details.