Project management : a socio-technological approach /

Larson, Erik W.,

Project management : a socio-technological approach / Erik W. Larson, Clifford F. Gray and Pinyarat Sirisomboonsuk. - 2024 release. - xx, 684 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Clifford F. Gray appears as the first named author in earlier editions.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Modern project management -- Organization strategy and project selection -- Organization: structure and culture -- Defining the project -- Estimating project times -- Developing a project schedule -- Managing risk -- Scheduling resources and costs -- Reducing project duration -- Being an effective project manager -- Managing project teams -- Outsourcing: managing interorganizational relations -- Progressive and performance measurement and evaluation -- Project closure -- Agile project management -- International projects.

"Our motivation in writing this text continues to be to provide a realistic, socio-technical view of project management. In the past, textbooks on project management focused almost exclusively on the tools and processes used to manage projects and not the human dimension"--

9781266912481

2019028390


Project management.
Time management.
Risk management.

HD69.P75

658.4/04 / L329p