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

Who Should Use This Book

The original target audience for EPM was the practicing project manager. However, as I discovered, many of the second and third edition sales were to university and college faculty. I certainly want to encourage their use of my book, so with each edition I further expanded the target market to include both practicing project managers and faculty. I added discussion questions to each chapter, and to assist in lecture preparation, I put copies of all figures and tables on the website. EPM6e takes it to the next level with much more collateral content for the instructor.

Practicing Professionals

This book adapts very well to whatever your current knowledge of or experience with project management might be:

• If you are unfamiliar with project management, you can learn the basics by simply reading and reflecting.
• If you wish to advance to the next level, I offer a wealth of practice opportunities through the case exercises.
• If you are more experienced, I offer several advanced topics, including TPM, APM, and xPM in Part II and a number of advanced topics in Parts III and IV.

In all cases, the best way to read the book is front to back. If you are an experienced project manager, feel free to skip around and read the sections as a refresher course.

The seasoned professional project manager will find value in the book as well. I have gathered a number of tools and techniques that appeared in the first edition of this book. The Joint Project Planning session, the ...