Project Management

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 523 pages
• Published by: McGraw-Hill Professional
• Edition: 5th Edition August 21, 2006
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 007147160X
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0071471602
• Book Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.4 x 1.3 inches
• Weighs: 2.2 pounds

Back Cover Copy
Today's Most Effective Guide for Applying Project Management to Implement Organizational Strategies -- Now Updated and Expanded!

Project Management: Strategic Design and Implementation delivers complete guidance on applying the theory, processes, practices, and techniques of project management to support strategic planning. Written by two world-renowned project management leaders, this new edition presents the latest methods for using flexible teams to implement organizational strategies -- especially changes to products, services, and processes.

Designed for use in both large and small organizations, this updated classic ranges from the project management process…to project planning, monitoring, evaluation, and control…to continuous improvement through projects. This resource offers new material on project portfolio management, earned value, project management maturity, nontraditional teams, project partnering, project management outsourcing, and much more.

The Fifth edition of Project Management: Strategic Design and Implementation features:

• Detailed coverage of all advances in project management theory and practice
• Helpful sections added to each chapter, including chapter summary, additional sources of information, discussion questions, project management principles, case study, assignment, and checklist
• Updated examples and exercises on key project management topics
• A greater format with sidebars to highlight major issues
• This new material: chapters on "The Evolution of Project Management" and "Successful Project Teams"

Inside this Updated PM Classic:
Introduction to Project Management * The Strategic Context of Projects * Organizational Design for Project Management * Project Operations * Interpersonal Dynamics in the Management of Projects * The Cultural Elements * New Uses of Teams

About The Author
David I. Cleland is professor emeritus in the School of Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh and the author/editor of 36 books on project management and engineering management. Often described as the "Father of Project Management," he is a Fellow of the Project Management Institute and has received the Institute's Distinguished Contribution to Project Management Award three times. The Institute's annual David I. Cleland Excellence in Project Management Literature Award is named in his honor.

Lewis R. Ireland is president of the American Society for the Advancement of Project Management. He is a Fellow of the Project Management Institute and has received the Institute’s Distinguished Contribution Award and human being of the Year Award. He has more than three decades of management experience and is active in advancing the project management discipline.

Reader Reviews
Perhaps the thing I like best about this book is the front cover illustration. It shows a bunch of spinning plates on the top of slender rods. I can't think of anything better to illustrate the problems of project management. There soon become so many plates, so many parts of a big project that you are constantly running from plate to plate, from emergency to emergency. Of course what the book is about is the body of knowledge that has been built up to enable big projects to be managed. The current concepts began with the military organizing itself to handle huge development projects during World War II including code breaking and the Atomic bomb project. This was branched out to other weapons projects and subsequently to managing projects of all types. As the types of projects for which project management techniques have proved useful, so has the body of knowdedge, techniques and procedures for project management. In this, the fifth edition of this classic text virtually every aspect of project management is covered, updated to the latest practices, and covering the use of project management techniques in many different contexts. This is not a 'cram' book to enable the student to pass the certification test, instead this is a book that covers every aspect of project management and fits it in with overall management of the company. Probably the best overall book on project management you will find.