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Project Management in 10 Steps
Plan, Run and Close Your First Real Project
Based on the PMBOK Guide, Eighth Edition — with 12 free templates and two projects worked from the first page to the last.
Included with Kindle Unlimited. 255 pages.
You do not need a certification to run a project well.
You need to know what to do first, what to do next, and what it costs you to skip a step. That is what this book is: ten steps that take a project from an idea to a formal close, in the order you actually do them.
Every step asks you to produce something real — and hands you the template to produce it with. By the end you have not read about a project charter. You have written one.
It is built on the PMBOK Guide, Eighth Edition, and it assumes no prior training. Part I gives you the foundations — what a project is, who the stakeholders are, the life cycle, the seven performance domains, the six principles. Part II is the work.
10
steps, in the order you run them
12
free templates, one per document
40
filled-in tables and 28 figures
255
pages
The ten steps, across the five focus areas
PMBOK 8 groups work into five focus areas — formerly known as process groups. Each step of this book sits in one of them, and each one ends with a document you can show someone.
Initiating · 1
- 1 · Initiate the project
Planning · 4
- 2 · Review the scope
- 3 · Analyse the risks
- 4 · Build the schedule and the budget
- 5 · Review and approve the plan
Executing · 2
- 6 · Engage the stakeholders
- 7 · Direct and execute what was planned
Monitoring and Controlling · 2
- 8 · Monitor time and cost, and produce the status report
- 9 · Control changes to the scope
Closing · 1
- 10 · Close the project or phase
Every step is worked twice over: on a personal project (Quality of Life) and on a corporate one (setting up a PMO at Horizon Transport). Same ten steps, two levels of complexity.
The 12 templates come with it, free
The book prints one address where you download them — blank to fill in, and a second copy of each one already filled in with the Quality of Life project the book follows, so you can see what finished looks like before you start. They are yours whether or not you finish the book:
- Project Charter
- Assumption Log
- Scope Statement
- WBS & Milestone Plan
- Schedule & Roadmap
- Cost Baseline & Budget
- Risk Register
- Stakeholder Register
- Work Performance Report
- Lessons Learned Register
- Change Requests Log
- Final Report
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Free · the appendix of the book
And a free course that runs the ten steps on your own project
Project Together takes these same ten steps, in the same order, and runs them against a real project — yours. Your project lives on a board in ProjectAdm. Each step hands you a prompt already carrying your own data; you paste it into whichever AI you use; it proposes and you decide.
The machine never invents a number: where you have not supplied something, the field comes back empty and labelled. The course is free, it installs nothing — the package carries its own Python — and the book's appendix explains it once.
Four steps, about five minutes, once: standard installation.
Who it is for
- Anyone about to run their first real project, with no training and a deadline already set.
- The accidental project manager — the job arrived with the promotion, not with a course.
- Anyone who has been running projects by instinct and wants a method underneath it.
- Anyone starting on PMBOK 8 who wants the practice before the standard.
About the author
Eduardo Montes is PMP and PSM I, a project management consultant, professor and author, and the founder of projectmanagement.com.br. He has delivered more than 300 projects, and this book is the method he teaches first.
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When ten steps are not enough
PMBOK 8 in Action
All 40 processes of the PMBOK Guide, Eighth Edition, one chapter each, with their inputs, outputs, tools and techniques — and two projects carried end to end. Same board, same rhythm, more depth. Read this one first.
Questions
Do I need to know project management already?
No. Part I builds the vocabulary from zero — project, stakeholder, life cycle, scope, constraint — and Part II uses it. No certification and no prior course is assumed.
Do I need the PMBOK Guide as well?
No. This book stands on its own and uses the official PMBOK 8 vocabulary, so the two agree if you do own the Guide. The Guide is the standard; this is the practice.
How do I get the 12 templates?
From the companion page, which the book prints. They are free and they need a free account on this site — the same one that unlocks the course, the examples and the rest of the library.
Is there a print edition?
The Kindle edition is out now. The paperback is in preparation.
Which AI does the free course need?
Whichever you already use. The prompts are plain text and are not tied to any provider. You paste, you read, you decide what to keep — and the course never writes a number you did not give it.
Is it in Portuguese too?
Yes — this is the English edition of Introdução ao Gerenciamento de Projetos, second edition, sold on escritoriodeprojetos.com.br.
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