Project Decisions: The Art and Science

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 344 pages
• Published by: Management Concepts October 1, 2007
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 1567262171
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-1567262179
• Book Dimensions: 9.9 x 7 x 1 inches
• Weighs: 1.7 pounds

Product Description
Project management is the art of making the right decisions. To be effective as a project manager, you must know how to make rational choices in project management, what processes can help you to improve these choices, and what tools are available to help you through the decision-making process. Project Decisions: The Art and Science is an entertaining and easy-to-read guide to a structured project decision analysis process. This valuable text presents the basics of cognitive psychology and quantitative analysis methods to help project managers make better decisions. Examples that portray different projects, real-life stories, and popular culture will help readers acquire the essential knowledge and skills required for effective project decision-making.

Readers will be able to:
-Understand psychological pitfalls related to project management
-Establish a creative business environment in their organization
-Identify project risks and uncertainties
-Develop estimates of project time and cost based on an understanding of human psychology
-Perform basic quantitative and qualitative risk and decision analysis
-Use event chain methodology in managing projects
-Communicate the results of decision analysis to decision-makers
-Review project decisions and perform adaptive project management
-Establish a project decision analysis process in their organization


PLUS Test your own judgment through a quiz that looks at your intuition!

About The Author
Lev Virine has more than twenty years of experience as a structural engineer, software developer, and project manager. In the past ten years he has been involved in a number of major projects performed by Fortune 500 companies and government agencies to establish effective decision analysis and risk management processes as well as to conduct risk analyses of complex projects. Lev is the author of more than 25 scientific papers and patents. He received his doctoral degree in engineering and computer science from Moscow State University.

Michael Trumper has worked in the fields of technical communications, marketing, and software development for the past 16 years. Over the past eight years, he has been involved in projects involving economic valuation and risk and project lifecycle modeling. Michael has authored several papers and articles on project risk management. He holds a bachelors degree from the University of Victoria and is currently a masters candidate at the University of Liverpools laureate program.

Reader Reviews
"Project Decisions" is a must read for project managers trying to improve the decision making ability. Coming from both decision analysis theory and psychology, it offers some unique insights and practical recipes for more successful projects in a fun, easy to read style. Comment | | (Report this)