Project Management: International Edition

Project Management: International Edition

For courses in project management. The fundamentals of project management with a wide assortment of business applications. Project Management takes a decision-making, business-oriented approach to the management of projects, which is reinforced throughout the text with current examples of project management in action. And because understanding project management is central to operations in various industries, this text also addresses project management within the context of a variety of successful organizations, whether publicly held, private, or not-for-profit. The second edition contains Sample PMP Certification Exam Questions, a new "Project Managers in Practice" feature, and updated project profiles and case studies.

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JEFFREY K. PINTO, PhD, is a professor of management at Penn State Erie, where he holds the Samuel A. and Elizabeth B. Breene Fellowship in Management. He has won international acclaim for his research in project management, which Fortune labeled the number one profession in corporate America for the coming decade. Pinto's ten previous books include The PMI Handbook of Project Management and Successful Project Managers (both from Wiley).

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Chapter 1. Introduction: Why Project Management?
Chapter 2. The Organizational Context: Strategy, Structure, and Culture
Chapter 3. Project Selection and Portfolio Management
Chapter 4. Leadership and the Project Manager
Chapter 5. Scope Management
Chapter 6. Project Team Building, Conflict, and Negotiation
Chapter 7. Risk Management
Chapter 8. Cost Estimation and Budgeting
Chapter 9. Project Scheduling: Networks, Duration Estimation, and Critical Path
Chapter 10. Project Scheduling: Lagging, Crashing, and Activity Networks
Chapter 11. Critical Chain Project Scheduling
Chapter 12. Resource Management
Chapter 13. Project Evaluation and Control
Chapter 14. Project Closeout and Termination