Small Business project management is simply not as complicated as project management in the enterprise. But small business projects have the same challenges as enterprise projects: They need to achieve their goals effectively, on time, and within budget. They also face the same primary challenge - staying inside the scope of the project! This great little book provides a simple process project planning and management process that is easy to learn and easy to teach to your employees, fellow technicians, and sub-contractors. You'll learn to track any project, explain all the stages to clients and employees, and verify that everything is completed on time and under budget. The authors show you a great technique for making sure that scope creep is a thing of the past! Make every project a successful and profitable project! This book jumps right into a down-and-dirty, get-it-done process for creating and implementing projects that work. The primary audience is the technical consultant. But this process, with very little fine-tuning, should work for just about any SMB project. We show you how to -Meet all the project goals -Maintain excellent communication with the client -Manage expectations -Stay profitableand -Avoid scope creep!