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In its Fourth Edition, Project Management: Achieving Competitive Advantage takes a contemporary, decisive, and business-oriented approach to teaching and learning project management. Blending current theory, contemporary case studies, and hands-on practice and research, Project Management offers students a full range of perspectives of the project management process.
Brief Contents
Introduction: Why Project Management?
The Organizational Context: Strategy, Structure, and Culture
Project Selection and Portfolio Management
Leadership and the Project Manager
Scope Management
Project Team Building, Conflict, and Negotiation
Risk Management
Cost Estimation and Budgeting
Project Scheduling: Networks, Duration Estimation, and Critical Path
Project Scheduling: Lagging, Crashing, and Activity Networks
Advanced Topics in Planning and Scheduling: Agile and Critical Chain
Resource Management
Project Closeout and Termination
What's New in the Fourth Edition?
Agile Project Management
MS Project 2013 Step-by-Step Tutorials
Project Execution Plan Template
Extreme Programming
Updated Problems in Chapters
New Project Management Research in Brief: "Does Agile Work?"
and others