Project Management: Achieving Competitive Advantage, Global Edition
Achieving Competitive Advantage, Global Edition
5th Edition
Published on 28. February 2019
592 pages
978-1-292-26916-0 (ISBN)
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For project management courses.
In its 5th Edition, Project Management: Achieving Competitive Advantage takes a contemporary, decisive, and business-oriented approach to teaching and learning project management. To promote a comprehensive, multi-industry understanding of the text, the author addresses project management theory within the context of a variety of successful organisations, whether they be publicly held, private, or nonprofit. Comprehensive case analysis and detailed exercises, including brand-new, contemporary case studies for the 5th Edition, give students the tools to assess projects in real time, while also leveraging the latest project management technology, including MS Project 2016.
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Project Management: Achieving Competitive Advantage, Global Edition
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5th Edition
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Content
- 1. Introduction: Why Project Management?
- 2. The Organizational Context: Strategy, Structure, and Culture
- 3. Project Selection and Portfolio Management
- 4. Leadership and the Project Manager
- 5. Scope Management
- 6. Project Team Building, Conflict, and Negotiation
- 7. Risk Management
- 8. Cost Estimation and Budgeting
- 9. Project Scheduling: Networks, Duration Estimation, and Critical Path
- 10. Project Scheduling: Lagging, Crashing, and Activity Networks
- 11. Advanced Topics in Planning and Scheduling: Agile and Critical Chain
- 12. Resource Management
- 13. Project Evaluation and Control
- 14. Project Closeout and Termination
- Appendix A. The Cumulative Standard Normal Distribution
- Appendix B. Tutorial for MS Project 2016
- Appendix C. Project Plan Template
