Description
Offering streamlined coverage with an applied approach, Project Management in Practice, 4th Edition focuses on the technical aspects of project management that are directly related to practice. This concise, hands-on text is about doing project management and is ideal for a one semester, or brief module on project management. This textbook is organized around the project management life cycle and it provides students with essential project management concepts, with a focus on PMBOK, the Project Management Body of Knowledge. (The Project Management Institute runs the PMBOK certification program).
Clear and accessible writing style. One reviewer said "One of the best written textbooks I have read. It should be a hit with the students who in many texts are confused by unclear presentation."
Focuses on the basic fundamentals of project management.
Practical, hands-on approach, using Microsoft Project (schools adopting the text can obtain access to the full version of Microsoft Project through Wiley's MSDNAA partnership) and Crystal Ball trial versions (risk analysis software) packaged with text
Organisation 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
Expanded risk management coverage
Clearer and simpler approach to the explanation of "crashing a project" and to the discussion of the "tracking signal"
Expanded emphasis on ethics in project management
Teacher's Manual organised with learning objective
Table of Contents 1. THE NATURE AND SELECTION OF PROJECTS. 2. THE MANY TASKS OF MANAGING AND ORGANIZING PROJECTS. 3. THE PROCESS OF PLANNING A PROJECT. 4. FROM PROJECT PLAN TO PROJECT BUDGET. 5. SCHEDULING THE WORK OF A PROJECT. 6. THE ALLOCATION OF SCARCE RESOURCES TO MULTIPLE PROJECTS. 7. KEEP PROJECTS ON COURSE, TIME, AND BUDGET. 8. COMPLETING AND EVALUATING THE PROJECT.