Effective Project Management: Traditional, Agile, Extreme, Sixth Edition

How This Book Is Organized

EPM6e is organized into 4 parts containing a total of 18 chapters.

Part I: Defining and Using Project Management Process Groups

The purpose of Part I is to introduce you to the tools, templates, and processes that comprise the effective project manager's toolkit. Because many of my readers will be familiar with the PMI PMBOK standards document, I have decided to group the toolkits around the five process groups, which I call Scoping, Planning, Launching, Monitoring and Controlling, and Closing. The nine Knowledge Areas defined in PMBOK are also introduced and briefly described. Each process group has a chapter devoted to it in which I provide working knowledge material for the tools, templates, and processes in that process group.

All of the subject matter content of EPM5e is contained in EPM6e. The case used in EPM5e, Pizza Delivered Quickly (PDQ), is continued and expanded in EPM6e.

For the college and university faculty who are using my book in their courses, I have revised many of the discussion questions at the end of each chapter. These are designed to actively engage the class in a sharing of ideas about how they would handle the situations presented.

Part II: Establishing Project Management Life Cycles and Strategies

Part II begins with Chapter 9, “Project Management Landscape,” which is defined by the goal and solution that are either clear or not clear. This two-by-two grid defines four types of project management categories: Traditional Project ...