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Introduction to Project
Management, Second Edition, available in mid January 2008, offers a general yet concise
introduction to project management. This book ( 454 pages including all
appendices, the glossary, and the index) provides
up-to-date information on how good project, program, and portfolio management
can help you achieve organizational success in all types of industries. If your
focus is IT, you might want to use my other book, Information Technology Project
Management, but if you want a good general book on project management, this is
the one to get. It provides comprehensive samples
of applying various tools and techniques to a project from start to finish,
with chapters on project selection, initiating, planning, executing, monitoring
and controlling, and closing project. It is suitable for all majors, including business, engineering, healthcare,
liberal arts, and
more. It can be used for undergrad or graduate courses as well.
Click here to read the preface, including
a detailed table of contents.
Click here to read a book
review from the Academy of Management Learning & Education, December 2007 issue.
Distinct features
of this text include its:
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Easy-to-ready style, including opening and closing cases to set the stage for
each chapter and real-world examples of projects in the What Went Right?, What
Went Wrong?, Media Snapshot, and Best Practice passages
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Inclusion of over 50 comprehensive samples of applying tools and techniques to a
realistic project during initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and
controlling, and closing
§ Use
of the Project Management Institute’s PMBOKâ
Guide 2004 as a foundation
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Interesting case studies that readers can use to practice skills they learn to
initiate, plan, execute, monitor and control, and close projects
§ Bundling with trial versions of Microsoft Project 2007
and VPMi Web-based enterprise project management software. Fissure simulation
software is an optional bundling
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Companion Web site, providing lecture notes, interactive quizzes, template
files, podcasts, Jeopardy games, and many other features to enhance learning
Reviewer comment:
"It comprehensively communicates what it really takes to manage a large project
including required deliverables, work products, and documentation. I haven’t
seen either a text or documentation in industry which communicates this subject
this comprehensively or this accurately" (Gilbert S. Leonard, Adjunct Professor
and retired project manager, Exxon Mobil Corporation). |
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ITPM
5th Ed.