Effective Project Management: Traditional, Adaptive, Extreme

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Wiley, Aug 8, 2003 - Computers - 504 pages
  • An updated edition of the bestselling book on managing IT projects
  • New topics introduced in this edition include Adaptive and eXtreme management methods, team selection and management, and risk analysis
  • Immerses readers in a simulated real-world situation where they must perform as seasoned project managers to move example projects through their lifecycles
  • Walks readers through a series of projects that they are most likely to encounter on the job
  • Authors adhere to the Project Management Institute's (PMI®) curriculum outline
  • The fully-interactive CD-ROM has been updated for MS Project 2002

(PMI, PMP, and Project Management Professional are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.)

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Contents

Chapter
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Discussion Questions
16
What Is Traditional Project Management? 17 77
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Robert K. Wysocki,Rudd McGary
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Robert K. Wysocki,Rudd McGary
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activity duration APF project approach approval assigned Breakdown Structure budget buffer business value CCPM change request Chapter Learning Objectives Client Checkpoint common cause variation completion date Conditions of Satisfaction constraints cost critical chain critical path Cycle Build cycle plan decision defined deliverables detail discussed document estimate example extreme project extreme project management Figure functionality Gantt chart goal statement identify impact implementation input ISBN JPP session look management process ment methodology network diagram organization package percent phase planning team prioritized problem proj Project Management Institute project management software project network Project Overview Statement project portfolio management project team proposal questions requestor result risk scope triangle senior management sequence situation skills solution specific staff strategy success criteria task team members timebox tion variance vendor Version Scope

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About the author (2003)

ROBERT K. WYSOCKI, PHD, has more than 38 years of experience as a project management consultant and trainer, information systems manager, systems and management consultant, author, and training developer and provider. Effective Project Management, Second Edition, is a bestseller and is essential for the library of every project manager.

RUDD MCGARY, PHD, PMP, has been practicing and teaching project management for more than 25 years. McGary has taught at the Ohio State University, Indiana University, and the University of Iowa and has been CEO of two operating companies. As the current central Ohio VP of Certification for PMI, he has worked with hundreds of candidates to help them become certified.

Bibliographic information

TitleEffective Project Management: Traditional, Adaptive, Extreme
AuthorsRobert K. Wysocki, Rudd McGary
Edition3, illustrated
PublisherWiley, 2003
Original fromthe University of Michigan
Digitized6 Nov 2007
ISBN0471432210, 9780471432210
Length504 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Computers / Programming / General
Computers / Software Development & Engineering / Project Management
  
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