The Portable MBA in Project Management

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 400 pages
• Published by: Wiley
• Edition: 1st Edition February 3, 2003
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0471268992
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0471268994
• Book Dimensions: 10 x 7.1 x 1.5 inches
• Weighs: 2.3 pounds

Book Description
The Portable MBA in Project Management covers the most pressing topics in project management and features all the leading thinkers in the field. While most project management books address only the techniques for managing individual projects, The Portable MBA in Project Management widens the scope to include insights for managing project-based organizations. In doing so, this comprehensive volume will help managers combine the power of individual project successes to drive the organization to new levels of productivity and customer responsiveness. Eric Verzuh, best selling author of The Fast Forward MBA in Project Management, brings together the leading lights of project management in this volume, including Robert G. Cooper, Randall Englund, Jack Meredith and Neil Whitten. In addition to his role as editor, Verzuh draws on his own expertise to address how and why project management is a strategic strength, how to integrate project management into your enterprise, and several other topics for which he is well-known. Together they effectively address the full spectrum of the issues in project management today.

Book Info
Text offers the best thinking on the newest strategies as well as tried-and-true practices in managing projects and project-based organizations. Includes contributions of classic works on project selection, risk management, insights on working in virtual teams, and integrating project management capabilities into the enterprise.

Reader Reviews
In almost every industry and profession, there is a growing reliance on Project management. This trend gives rise to a new term: the project-based organization. This book is intended for their leaders. It takes an integrated approach to managing a project based organization. CIO's, department managers, program managers and senior project managers who are being challenged to formalize the processes of managing projects will find this compendium to be a source of strategies and standards for leveraging the discipline of project management across an organization. Verzuh has assembled some the leading thinkers in project management to provide the reader with the theory, methods and framework to manage the project-based organization successfully. The collection includes essays from: * Elaine Biech, President and Managing Principal, Ebb Associates * Robert G. Cooper, President and cofounder, The Product Development Institute * Denis Couture, President and cofounder, PCI Group * Deborah L. Duarte, George Washington University * Randall Englund, Associate, Strategic Management Group * Robert J. Graham, Senior Associate, Strategic Management Group * Ned Hamson, strategic innovation consultant * Samuel J. Mantel Jr., Professor Emeritus, University of Cincinnati * Jack R. Meredith, Editor in Chief, Journal of Operations Management * Nancy Tennant Snyder, Vice President for Leadership and Strategic Competency Creation, Whirlpool Corporation * Eric Verzuh, President, The Versatile Company * Neal Whitten, President, Neal Whitten Group. I particularly enjoyed Chapters 7 and 14. In Chapter seven Ned Hamson provides as concise an overview of quality, quality management and project management as I have found on the subject. In Chapter 14, Eric Verzuh discusses integrating Project Management into the organization. In it, he argues that in the successful project-based organization project management disappears. Disappearing, he says, is not the same as ceasing to exist. The purpose of the project driven enterprise is not to hone project capabilities, it is to deliver products and services. My copy of Verzuh's first book, The Fast Forward MBA in Project Management, sits dog-eared on my desk from constant reference. I will not be surprised if this, his second, soon starts to take on a similar appearance. Comment | | (Report this)