- Description
- 546p. ; 24cm.
- Notes
- "The Project Manager's Desk Reference has become the bible of project managers everywhere, regardless of industry or project size. With this Second Edition, project management pioneer James Lewis provides updated examples, illustrations, and figures - along with clear, how-to-do-it approaches to help you put a project plan together, assemble, and manage a problem-solving team, eliminate potential stumbling blocks to keep the project on target, and complete the project in an orderly, economical, and timely manner." "The ability to skillfully manage a project is essential in today's business world, both for the successes of the projects and for the project managers themselves - whose successes are generally recognized and rewarded. Whether you are currently involved in planning or executing a project, or just want to prepare yourself for the next opportunity, The Project Manager's Desk Reference will provide a template for managing your next project to its successful conclusion."--BOOK JACKET.Ch. 18. Sociotechnical Systems and Project Organization. Ch. 19. Profiling the World-Class Project Management Organization. Ch. 20. Improving Your Communication Skills. Ch. 21. Managing Business-to-Business Marketing and Communication Projects Successfully. Ch. 22. The Need for Systems Thinking in Project Management. Ch. 23. Understanding Systems Thinking. Ch. 24. How to Apply Systems Thinking in Managing Projects. Ch. 25. Problem Solving in Projects. Ch. 26. Solving Close-Ended Problems. Ch. 27. Solving Open-Ended Problems. Ch. 28. Managing Decision Making in Project Teams -- Sect. 7. Resources and References. Ch. 29. Developing Project Managers. Ch. 30. Checklists for Managing Projects.Includes bibliographical references p. 523-528.Includes index.Sect. 1. Introduction and Overview. Ch. 1. Overview of Project Management. Ch. 2. A Model for Managing Projects -- Sect. 2. Project Planning. Ch. 3. General Aspects of Project Planning. Ch. 4. Planning: Developing the Project Mission, Vision, Goals, and Objectives. Ch. 5. Planning Project Strategy. Ch. 6. Implementation Planning -- Sect. 3. Project Scheduling. Ch. 7. Developing a Project Schedule. Ch. 8. Schedule Computations. Ch. 9. Scheduling with Resource Constraints. Ch. 10. Scheduling with PERT -- Sect. 4. Project Control and Evaluation. Ch. 11. Principles of Project Control and Evaluation. Ch. 12. Project Control Using Earned Value Analysis. Ch. 13. Progress Payments and Earned Value Analysis. Ch. 14. Project Change Control -- Sect. 5. Causes of Project Success and Failure. Ch. 15. Defining Project Success and Failure. Ch. 16. Causes of Project Failure. Ch. 17. Managing Project Risks -- Sect. 6. Other Issues in Project Management.
