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Effective project management : traditional, agile, extreme, hybrid / Robert K. Wysocki.

Summary:

The popular guide to the project management body of knowledge, now fully updated. Now in its eighth edition, this comprehensive guide to project management has long been considered the standard for both professionals and academics, with nearly 40,000 copies sold in the last three editions! Well-known expert Robert Wysocki has added four chapters of new content based on instructor feedback, enhancing the coverage of best-of-breed methods and tools for ensuring project management success. With enriched case studies, accompanying exercises and solutions on the companion website, and PowerPoint slides for all figures and tables, the book is ideal for instructors and students as well as active project managers.

Record details

ISBN: 9781119562801 (Paper)
ISBN: 1119562805 (Paper)
Physical Description: lv, 595 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Edition: Eighth edition.
Publisher: Indianapolis, IN : Wiley, [2019]
Copyright: ©2019

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 561-564) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Part 1. Understanding the project management landscape. What is a project? -- What is project management? -- What is strategic project management? -- What is a collaborative project team? -- What are project management process groups? -- Part 2. Traditional project management. How to scope a TPM project -- How to plan a TPM project -- How to launch a TPM project -- How to execute a TPM project -- How to close a TPM project -- Part 3. Complex project management. Complexity and uncertainty in the project landscape -- Agile complex project management models -- Extreme complex project management models -- Hybrid project management framework -- Comparing TPM and CPM models -- Appendix A. Terms and acronyms -- Appendix B. Case study: workforce and business development center -- Appendix C. Case study: pizza delivered quickly (PDQ) -- Appendix D. Cited references -- Appendix E. What's on the eiipbs.com website?