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Project Management, 3/e

Project Management, 3/e

Author(s):
  • Harvey Maylor
    • Author: Harvey Maylor
    • ISBN:9788177580365
    • 10 Digit ISBN:8177580361
    • Price:Rs. 1000.00
    • Pages:428
    • Imprint:Pearson Education
    • Binding:Paperback
    • Status:Available


    Ratings:

    The third edition of this successful textbook represents a major development in content, approach and pedagogy. Combining a strong academic approach with relevant practical cases, the text skillfully shows the range of issues that face project managers through the logic of the 4-D project cycle.



    Project Management is used extensively to accompany courses on undergraduate, masters and MBA programmes, as well as for in-company training and for professionals wanting to bring themselves up-to-date with developments in the field.

    Table of Content

      1. Introduction
      2. Structures and frameworks
    1. DEFINE THE PROJECT
      1. Strategy and project management
      2. Project definition
    2. DESIGN THE PROJECT PROCESS
      1. Time planning
      2. Critical chain project management
      3. Cost and quality planning
      4. Plan analysis and risk management
    3. DELIVER THE PROJECT (DO IT!)
      1. Project organisation: structures and teams
      2. Management and leadership in project environments
      3. Control of projects
      4. Supply chain issues
      5. Problem-solving and decision-making
      6. Project completion and review
      7. Improving project performance

    Salient Features

    • Six new chapters including expanded coverage of structures and frameworks, strategy, planning and review.
    • New topics include critical chain project management and supply chain management.
    • The relevant areas of both APM and PMI bodies of knowledge are shown in each chapter.
    • Updated and new cases.
    • New pedagogical features including learning objectives for each chapter, end of chapter summaries and improved sign-posting to sources of further information.
    • Considers the subject from a strategic perspective, covering both the role of projects in the execution of organisational strategy and the application of strategic principles in projects.
    • Covers a wide range of project settings, from the traditional large-scale industrial projects through to small-scale personal projects, in both service and manufacturing settings.
    • Considers projects as being a core business activity for most organisations.
    • Each chapter contains examples of Project Management in Practice as well as discussion questions and exercises.
    • The use of structures helps explain what is going on at different points in the life-cycle of a project.