Description
Offering streamlined coverage with an applied approach, Project Management in Practice, 5th Edition focuses on the essentials of project management. This concise, hands-on text is ideal for a one semester project management course, or as a module on project management. This textbook is organized around the project management life cycle, and provides students with essential project management concepts while addressing an important area of industry growth: the use of projects to achieve the strategic goals of organizations.
Features
Focuses on the basic fundamentals of project management.
Practical, hands-on approach, using Microsoft Project and Crystal Ball (risk analysis software). Free trial versions of both software applications are available to adopters of the text.
Organization of the book follows project management life cycle, mirroring the way a real-world project would be executed
New To This Edition
Addresses the newest version of Crystal Ball 11.1.
Expanded references to locations in PMBOK that discuss the topic at hand for those who are also studying for the Project Management Professional (PMP) or other certification exams offered by the Project Management Institute.
To improve the student’s perspective as a project managers in practice, the authors describe the role as constantly making trade-offs between the three main goals of scope, time, and cost but also risk and ancillary goals such as organizational improvement, strategic goals, and future opportunities. New icons in the book’s margins call out where important discussion on these topics appears.
The authors added a large number of additional problems and mini-cases to the 5th Edition of the text.
Table of Contents 1 The World of Project Management 2 The Manager, the Organization, and the Team 3 Project Activity and Risk Planning 4 Budgeting the Project 5 Scheduling the Project 6 Allocating Resources to the Project 7 Monitoring and Controlling the Project 8 Evaluating and Terminating the Project