Project Management for Business Professionals

No longer restricted to the engineering industry, project management has at long last crossed over to mainstream business. Project Management for Business Professionals is the definitive reference on the essentials of contemporary project management. Featured here are some of the foremost practitioners and researchers from academia, consulting, and private industry, sharing their various areas of project management expertise and providing a wide range of perspectives on everything from risk management to resource planning to ethics management. Focusing on both the technical and human sides of the field, this unique resource follows the main points of the "project management body of knowledge"-the certification standard of the Project Management Institute. The experts address the procedures and processes for planning and managing projects and explore project team/group dynamics, examining the interpersonal relations and the political and organizational considerations that can impact a project.

ISBN 0471380334   Pages 624 ISBN13 9780471380337 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd   Weight (grammes) 1032 Imprint John Wiley & Sons Inc   Published in New York Format Hardback   Height (mm) 243 Publication date 27 Mar 2001   Width (mm) 167 Library of Congress 00043695   Spine width (mm) 39 DEWEY 658.404   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC21

		Acknowledgments
		Preface
		About the Contributors
		Introduction		1
Ch. 1		Overview: The Discipline of Project Management by David I. Cleland		3
Ch. 2		Transition: The Project-Driven Organization by Joan Knutson		23
Pt. I		The Technical Track		31
Ch. 3		Portfolio Management: Overview and Best Practices by J. Kent Crawford		33
Ch. 4		Scope Management: Do All That You Need and Just What You Need by Shlomo Globerson		49
Ch. 5		Requirements Management: Addressing Customer Needs and Avoiding Scope Creep by J. Davidson Frame		63
Ch. 6		Schedule Management: Seeing the Future by Mapping Out the Present by Carl Pritchard		81
Ch. 7		Accounting and Financial Management: Finding the Project's Bottom Line by Frank Toney		101
Ch. 8		Risk Management: Maximizing the Probability of Success by Ricahrd E. Westney		128
Ch. 9		Contracts and Procurement Management: Why Should You Care? by Rita Mulcahy		151
Ch. 10		Earned Value Management: An Introduction by Joel M. Kippelman and Quentin W. Fleming		166
Ch. 11		Information Management: For the Project Management in an Information Age by Martin D. Hynes III		179
Ch. 12		Project Closeout Management: More Than Simply Saying Good-Bye and Moving On by Terry Cooke-Davies		200
Ch. 13		Multiple Project Management: Responding to the Challenge by John M. Nevison		215
Ch. 14		Process Automation in Project Management: Today by Vickey Quinn		245
Ch. 15		Computer-Aided Project Management: Tomorrow by Carl N. Belack		259
Ch. 16		eBusiness Project Management: The Future Is Today by Danek Bienkowski		278
		More...

 Be the first to write a customer review