Book description
The popular guide to the project management body of knowledge, now fully updated
Now in its eighth edition, this comprehensive guide to project management has long been considered the standard for both professionals and academics, with nearly 40,000 copies sold in the last three editions! Well-known expert Robert Wysocki has added four chapters of new content based on instructor feedback, enhancing the coverage of best-of-breed methods and tools for ensuring project management success.
With enriched case studies, accompanying exercises and solutions on the companion website, and PowerPoint slides for all figures and tables, the book is ideal for instructors and students as well as active project managers.
- Serves as a comprehensive guide to project management for both educators and project management professionals
- Updated to cover the new PMBOK® Sixth Edition
- Examines traditional, agile, and extreme project management techniques; the Enterprise Project Management Model; and Kanban and Scrumban methodologies
- Includes a companion website with exercises and solutions and well as PowerPoint slides for all the figures and tables used
- Written by well-known project management expert Robert Wysocki
Effective Project Management, Eighth Edition remains the comprehensive resource for project management practitioners, instructors, and students.
(PMBOK is a registered mark of the Project Management Institute, Inc.)
Table of contents
- Cover
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I: Understanding the Project Management Landscape
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Part II: Traditional Project Management
- CHAPTER 6: How to Scope a TPM Project
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CHAPTER 7: How to Plan a TPM Project
- Using Tools, Templates, and Processes to Plan a Project
- The Importance of Planning
- Using Application Software Packages to Plan a Project
- Planning and Conducting Joint Project Planning Sessions
- Estimating
- Constructing the Project Network Diagram
- Writing an Effective Project Proposal
- Gaining Approval to Launch the Project
- Discussion Questions
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CHAPTER 8: How to Launch a TPM Project
- Using the Tools, Templates, and Processes to Launch a Project
- Recruiting the Project Team
- Developing a Team Deployment Strategy
- Conducting the Project Kick‐Off Meeting
- Establishing Team Operating Rules
- Managing Scope Changes
- Managing Team Communications
- Assigning Resources
- Resource Leveling Strategies
- Finalizing the Project Schedule
- Writing Work Packages
- Discussion Questions
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CHAPTER 9: How to Execute a TPM Project
- Using Tools, Templates, and Processes to Monitor and Control
- Establishing Your Progress Reporting System
- Applying Graphical Reporting Tools
- Managing the Scope Bank
- Building and Maintaining the Issues Log
- Managing Project Status Meetings
- Defining a Problem Escalation Strategy
- Gaining Approval to Close the Project
- Discussion Questions
- CHAPTER 10: How to Close a TPM Project
- Part III: Complex Project Management
- APPENDIX A: Terms and Acronyms
- APPENDIX B: Case Study: Workforce and Business Development Center
- APPENDIX C: Case Study: Pizza Delivered Quickly (PDQ)
- APPENDIX D: Cited References
- APPENDIX E: What's on the eiipbs.com Website?
- Index
- End User License Agreement
Product information
- Title: Effective Project Management, 8th Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: May 2019
- Publisher(s): Wiley
- ISBN: 9781119562801
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