Project planning, scheduling & control : the ultimate hands-on guide to bringing projects in on time and on budget /
Project planning, scheduling and control
James P. Lewis.
- Sixth Edition.
- xiii, 510 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Revised edition of the author's Project planning, scheduling & control, c2011.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Section One. Introduction to Project Management -- An introduction to project management -- The project management institute and the PMBOK GUIDE -- The role of the project manager -- How to achieve high-performance project management -- Whole-brain project management -- Section Two. Project Definition -- Headless-chicken projects and how to prevent them -- Section Three. Project Planning -- Developing project strategy -- Implementation planning -- Project scheduling -- Managing project communications -- Managing risks -- Section Four. Execution and Control -- Project control -- Conducting project reviews -- Section Five. Other Issues in Project Management -- Managing the enterprise using project management methods -- The leadership imperative -- The digital project office -- Using Stagegate to select, evaluate, and control projects -- Dealing with stakeholders -- Applying Alan Mulally's principles to project management -- Complexities and Pitfalls in international projects -- Remote teams -- Schedule computations.
"A new edition of the classic project management book is here, revised and updated with even more guidelines and real-world examples"-- "For more than 30 years, James P. Lewis's project management bible has been the benchmark guide for project managers, supervisors, MBA students and everyone studying to pass the PMP® exam. Packed with information on best practices, smart strategies, and a comprehensive survey of the issues you'll encounter as a project manager, it provides an thorough, applications-oriented understanding of the issues in the practice of contemporary project management and a useful reinforcement of the Project Management Institute's recommended success strategies. Every chapter of Project Planning, Scheduling and Control contains a wealth of essential information―from the role of the project manager and description of the PMBOK® Guide to Whole Brain® project management and how to achieve high performance project management. Throughout this edition, you'll find all-new data supporting the information on project definition, planning, execution and control, in chapters that include "Headless-Chicken Projects and How to Prevent Them," "Developing Project Strategy," "Conducting Project Reviews" and more. With an entirely new section offering more strategies on leadership, stakeholder relations, managing a remote team and beyond, and an appendix that includes helpful sections for schedule computations, calculations for an AOA network, and constrained end date scheduling, this latest edition of the classic guide offers the most up-to-date, thorough and hands-on preparation a project manager―or a project manager-in-training―can get"--