Project Management: Achieving Competitive Advantage, Global Edition

Klappentext For courses in project management. Project Management Fundamentals with Broad ApplicationsIn its Fourth Edition! Project Management: Achieving Competitive Advantage takes a contemporary! decisive! and business-oriented approach to teaching and learning project management. Blending current theory! contemporary case studies! and hands-on practice and research! Project Management offers students a full range of perspectives of the project management process. To promote a comprehensive! multi-industry understanding of the text! the author addresses project management theory within the context of a variety of successful organizations! whether they be publicly held! private! or nonprofit. Comprehensive case analysis and detailed exercises give students the tools to assess projects in real-time! equipping them with razor-sharp decision-making skills. Leveraging the latest project management technology! Project Management features just the right balance of real-world examples! cutting-edge theory! and practical exercises. Zusammenfassung For courses in project management. Project Management Fundamentals with Broad Applications In its Fourth Edition ! Project Management: Achieving Competitive Advantage takes a contemporary! decisive! and business-oriented approach to teaching and learning project management. Blending current theory! contemporary case studies! and hands-on practice and research! Project Management offers students a full range of perspectives of the project management process. To promote a comprehensive! multi-industry understanding of the text! the author addresses project management theory within the context of a variety of successful organizations! whether they be publicly held! private! or nonprofit. Comprehensive case analysis and detailed exercises give students the tools to assess projects in real-time! equipping them with razor-sharp decision-making skills. Leveraging the latest project management technology! Project Management features just the right balance of real-world examples! cutting-edge theory! and practical exercises. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction: Why Project Management? ? Development Projects in Lagos! Nigeria Throwing Good Money after Bad: The BBC's Digital Media Initiative Chapter 2 The Organizational Context: Strategy! Structure! and Culture ? Tesla's $5 Billion Gamble Electronic Arts and the Power of Strong Culture in Design Teams Chapter 3 Project Selection and Portfolio Management ? Project Selection Procedures: A Cross-Industry Sampler Chapter 4 Leadership and the Project Manager ? Leading by Example for the London Olympics Sir John Armitt Dr. E. Sreedharan! India's Project Management Guru Chapter 5 Scope Management ? We look like fools. Oregon's Failed Rollout of their Obamacare Website Boeing's Virtual Fence California's High-Speed Rail Project What's the Latest News? The Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle Chapter 6 Project Team Building! Conflict! and Negotiation ? Engineers Without Borders: Project Teams Impacting Lives Chapter 7 Risk Management ? The Building that Melted Cars Bank of America Completely Misjudges its Customers Collapse of Shanghai Apartment Building The Spanish Navy pays nearly $3 billion for a Submarine that will sink like a Stone C hapter 8 Cost Estimation and Budgeting ? Sochi Olympics What's the Cost of National Prestige? The Hidden Costs of Infrastructure Projects The Case of Building Dams Chapter 9 Project Scheduling: Networks! Duration Estimation! and Critical Path ? After 20 Years and More than $50 billion...

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JEFFREY K. PINTO, PhD, is a professor of management at Penn State Erie, where he holds the Samuel A. and Elizabeth B. Breene Fellowship in Management. He has won international acclaim for his research in project management, which Fortune labeled the number one profession in corporate America for the coming decade. Pinto's ten previous books include The PMI Handbook of Project Management and Successful Project Managers (both from Wiley).

Zusammenfassung
For courses in project management.

Project Management Fundamentals with Broad Applications
In its Fourth Edition, Project Management: Achieving Competitive Advantage takes a contemporary, decisive, and business-oriented approach to teaching and learning project management. Blending current theory, contemporary case studies, and hands-on practice and research, Project Management offers students a full range of perspectives of the project management process.

To promote a comprehensive, multi-industry understanding of the text, the author addresses project management theory within the context of a variety of successful organizations, whether they be publicly held, private, or nonprofit. Comprehensive case analysis and detailed exercises give students the tools to assess projects in real-time, equipping them with razor-sharp decision-making skills. Leveraging the latest project management technology, Project Management features just the right balance of real-world examples, cutting-edge theory, and practical exercises.

Inhalt

Chapter 1 Introduction: Why Project Management? 

Development Projects in Lagos, Nigeria

“Throwing Good Money after Bad”: The BBC’s Digital Media Initiative

Chapter 2 The Organizational Context: Strategy, Structure, and Culture 

Tesla’s $5 Billion Gamble

Electronic Arts and the Power of Strong Culture in Design Teams

Chapter 3 Project Selection and Portfolio Management 

Project Selection Procedures: A Cross-Industry Sampler

Chapter 4 Leadership and the Project Manager 

Leading by Example for the London Olympics – Sir John Armitt

Dr. E. Sreedharan, India’s Project Management Guru

Chapter 5 Scope Management 

“We look like fools.” – Oregon’s Failed Rollout of their Obamacare Website

Boeing’s Virtual Fence

California’s High-Speed Rail Project – What’s the Latest News?

The Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle

Chapter 6 Project Team Building, Conflict, and Negotiation 

Engineers Without Borders: Project Teams Impacting Lives

*Chapter 7 Risk Management ***

The Building that Melted Cars

Bank of America Completely Misjudges its Customers

Collapse of Shanghai Apartment Building

The Spanish Navy pays nearly $3 billion for a Submarine that will sink like a Stone

C***hapter 8 Cost Estimation and Budgeting *

Sochi Olympics – What’s the Cost of National Prestige?

The Hidden Costs of Infrastructure Projects – The Case of Building Dams

Chapter 9 Project Scheduling: Networks, Duration Estimation, and Critical Path 

After 20 Years and More than $50 billion, Oil is no closer to the Surface: The Caspian Kashagan Project

Chapter 10 Project Scheduling: Lagging, Crashing, and Activity Networks 

Enlarging the Panama Canal

Chapter 11 Critical Chain Project Scheduling 

Developing Projects through Kickstarter – Do Delivery Dates Mean Anything?

Eli Lilly Pharmaceutical’s Commitment to Critical Chain Project Scheduling

Chapter 12 Resource Management 

Hong Kong Connects to the World’s Longest Natural Gas Pipeline

Chapter 13 Project Evaluation and Control 

New York City’s CityTime Project

Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner: Failure to Launch (with update)

Earned Value Management at Northrop Grumman

Chapter 14 Project Closeout and Termination 

Duke Energy and its Cancelled Levy County Nuclear Power Plant

Aftermath of a “Feeding Frenzy” - Dubai and Cancelled Construction Projects

New Jersey Kills Hudson River Tunnel Project

The Navy Scraps Development of Its Showpiece Warship – Until the Next Bad Idea

Appendix: Tutorial for MicroSoft® Project 2013