Project Management for Business and Engineering, Second Edition : Principles and Practice
Editorial Reviews
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"This is a valuable book at a very keen price... It should find a place among students taking higher degrees where project management is the principal subject. University lecturers on all postgraduate management programmes will welcome the huge fund of case studies that can be extracted and used for group debates and coursework assignments."
-Dennis Lock, International Journal of Project Management (2005)
Book Description
Project Management for Business and Engineering is a direct response to the ever-increasing need for better project management. This book encompasses the full range of project management - everything from origins, philosophy, and methodology to actual applications. Nicholas describes concepts and techniques such as project initiation and proposals, scope and task definition, scheduling, budgeting, risk analysis, control, project organization, and the often overlooked "people" side - project leadership, team building, conflict, and stress management.
The Systems Development Cycle is used as a framework to discuss project management in a variety of situations, making this book useful for managing virtually any kind of project, program, or task force. Over 230 figures and tables, 60 short examples and illustrative cases, and end-of-chapter summaries, review problems, questions, and case studies are included.
The author draws upon his experience with projects in information technology, systems analysis, aerospace engineering, human resource development, and over a decade of teaching project management as a university professor.
· Comprehensive, balanced topical coverage; interesting to read
· Numerous figures and tables (figure/table appears every 2.5 pages, average)
· Systems approach: methodologies, development cycle, and engineering
Project Management for Business and Engineering, Second Edition : Principles and Practice,John M. Nicholas,Butterworth-Heinemann,0750678240,Business & Economics,Business / Economics / Finance,Business/Economics,Management - General,Production & Operations Management,Project Management,Business & Economics / Finance
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