Project Management: Achieving Competitive Advantage, Global Edition, 5th edition

Published by Pearson (July 29, 2024) © 2024

  • Jeffrey K Pinto Penn State University-Erie
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Title overview

For project management courses.

In its 5th Edition, Project Management: Achieving Competitive Advantage takes a contemporary, decisive, and business-oriented approach to teaching and learning project management. To promote a comprehensive, multi-industry understanding of the text, the author addresses project management theory within the context of a variety of successful organisations, whether they be publicly held, private, or nonprofit. Comprehensive case analysis and detailed exercises, including brand-new, contemporary case studies for the 5th Edition, give students the tools to assess projects in real time, while also leveraging the latest project management technology, including MS Project 2016.

Table of contents

  1. 1. Introduction: Why Project Management?
  2. 2. The Organizational Context: Strategy, Structure, and Culture
  3. 3. Project Selection and Portfolio Management
  4. 4. Leadership and the Project Manager
  5. 5. Scope Management
  6. 6. Project Team Building, Conflict, and Negotiation
  7. 7. Risk Management
  8. 8. Cost Estimation and Budgeting
  9. 9. Project Scheduling: Networks, Duration Estimation, and Critical Path
  10. 10. Project Scheduling: Lagging, Crashing, and Activity Networks
  11. 11. Advanced Topics in Planning and Scheduling: Agile and Critical Chain
  12. 12. Resource Management
  13. 13. Project Evaluation and Control
  14. 14. Project Closeout and Termination

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