Project management : the managerial process /
Erik W. Larson and Clifford F. Gray.
- Eighth edition.
- xxii, 682 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Modern project management -- Organization strategy and project selection -- Organization: structure and culture -- Defining the project -- Estimating project times and costs -- 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 -- Progress 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"--
9781260570434
Project management. Time management. Risk management.