Project Management, 5th Edition

PREFACE

In today’s environment, certainty of change is without precedent. Although the practice of project management has been with us for centuries, only in the past few decades an expression in the literature of philosophy and process of managing projects has taken place. An early form of project management was used in antiquity to manage societal changes. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the use of projects as building blocks in the strategic management of the enterprise. This book’s fifth edition continues to hold the commanding lead, taken by previous editions, in showing how to use projects for the management of product, service, and organizational process change to prepare the organization for its competitive future. ...