Book description
The popular guide to the project management body of knowledge, now fully updated
Now in its seventh edition, this comprehensive guide to project management has long been considered the standard for both professionals and academics. With more than 32,000 copies sold in the last three editions, it has now been fully updated to cover the new PMBOK 5. Well-known expert Robert Wysocki has added more than 100 pages 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.
Serves as a comprehensive guide to project management for both educators and project management professionals
Completely updated to cover the new PMBOK 5
Examines traditional, agile, and extreme project management techniques; the Enterprise Project Management Model; and Kanban and Scrumban methodologies
Includes a companion website with exercises and solutions and well as PowerPoint slides for all the figures and tables used
Written by well-known project management expert Robert Wysocki
Effective Project Management, Seventh Edition remains the comprehensive resource for project management practitioners, instructors, and students.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Part I: Understanding the Project Management Landscape
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Part II: Traditional Project Management
- Chapter 4: How to Scope a TPM Project
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Chapter 5: How to Plan a TPM Project
- Using Tools, Templates, and Processes to Plan a Project
- The Importance of Planning
- Using Application Software Packages to Plan a Project
- Planning and Conducting Joint Project Planning Sessions
- Building the WBS
- Estimating
- Constructing the Project Network Diagram
- Writing an Effective Project Proposal
- Gaining Approval to Launch the Project
- Putting It All Together
- Discussion Questions
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Chapter 6: How to Launch a TPM Project
- Using Tools, Templates, and Processes to Launch a Project
- Recruiting the Project Team
- Conducting the Project Kick-Off Meeting
- Establishing Team Operating Rules
- Managing Scope Changes
- Managing Team Communications
- Assigning Resources
- Resource-Leveling Strategies
- Finalizing the Project Schedule
- Writing Work Packages
- Putting It All Together
- Discussion Questions
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Chapter 7: How to Monitor & Control a TPM Project
- Using Tools, Templates, and Processes to Monitor and Control a Project
- Establishing Your Progress Reporting System
- Applying Graphical Reporting Tools
- Managing the Scope Bank
- Building and Maintaining the Issues Log
- Managing Project Status Meetings
- Defining a Problem Escalation Strategy
- Gaining Approval to Close the Project
- Putting It All Together
- Discussion Questions
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Chapter 8: How to Close a TPM Project
- Using Tools, Templates, and Processes to Close a Project
- Writing and Maintaining Client Acceptance Procedures
- Closing a Project
- Getting Client Acceptance
- Installing Project Deliverables
- Documenting the Project
- Conducting the Post-Implementation Audit
- Writing the Final Report
- Celebrating Success
- Putting It All Together
- Discussion Questions
- Part III: Complex Project Management
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Part IV: Managing the Realities of Projects
- Chapter 13: Prevention and Intervention Strategies for Distressed Projects
- Chapter 14: Organizing Multiple Team Projects
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Chapter 15: Establishing and Maturing a Project Support Office
- Background of the Project Support Office
- Defining a Project Support Office
- Naming the Project Support Office
- Establishing Your PSO's Mission
- Framing PSO Objectives
- Exploring PSO Support Functions
- Selecting PSO Organizational Structures
- Understanding the Organizational Placement of the PSO
- Determining When You Need a Project Support Office
- Establishing a PSO
- Facing the Challenges of Implementing a PSO
- The PSO of the Future
- Putting It All Together
- Discussion Questions
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Chapter 16: Establishing and Managing a Continuous Process Improvement Program
- Understanding Project Management Processes and Practices
- Defining Process and Practice Maturity
- Measuring Project Management Process and Practice Maturity
- Using the Continuous Process Improvement Model
- Defining Roles and Responsibilities of the PSO
- Using Process Improvement Tools, Templates, and Processes
- Putting It All Together
- Discussion Questions
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Part V: End State: Maturing to an Enterprise-Level Project Management Model
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Chapter 17: Establishing a Project Portfolio Management Process
- Introduction to Project Portfolio Management
- The Project Portfolio Management Life Cycle
- Roles and Responsibilities of the PSO in Portfolio Management
- Preparing Your Project for Submission to the Portfolio Management Process
- Agile Project Portfolio Management
- Putting It All Together
- Discussion Questions
- Chapter 18: A Practical Project-Based Model of the Enterprise
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Chapter 17: Establishing a Project Portfolio Management Process
- Appendix A: Glossary of Acronyms
- Appendix B: What's on the Website?
- Appendix C: Bibliography
- Introduction
Product information
- Title: Effective Project Management: Traditional, Agile, Extreme, 7th Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2013
- Publisher(s): Wiley
- ISBN: 9781118729168
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