Project Management: Achieving Competitive Advantage and MS Project
This text takes a holistic, integrated approach to managing projects, exploring both technical and managerial challenges.
It emphasizes not only individual project execution, but also provides a strategic perspective, demonstrating means to manage projects at the program and portfolio levels. Overall, the text strikes a balance by using cases, examples, and problems from a variety of project types, including IT examples, construction, engineering, manufacturing, new product development, R&D, and services. This balance was designed to create a text that was useful for teaching project management across the widest possible range of settings.
Table of Content
- Introduction: Why Project Management?
- The Organization 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
- Critical Chain Project Scheduling
- Resource Management
- Project Evaluation and Control
- Project Close-out and Termination
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Salient Features
- Project Profiles
- Cases
- Integrated Project Exercise
- Integration with the PMBoK
- MS Project Exercises
- Research in Brief
- Internet Exercises
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