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Project Management: Achieving Competitive Advantage, 5th edition

  • Jeffrey K Pinto

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Project Management: Achieving Competitive Advantage takes a contemporary, decisive and business-oriented approach to project management (PM). To promote a comprehensive, multi-industry understanding of the text, the author addresses PM theory within the context of a variety of successful public, private, and nonprofit organizations.

The 5th Edition contains comprehensive case analysis and detailed exercises. Brand-new, contemporary case studies provide you with the tools to assess projects in real time. You'll also leverage the latest project management technology, including Microsoft® Project 2016.

Published by Pearson (August 1st 2021) - Copyright © 2019

ISBN-13: 9780137477258

Subject: Operations Management

Category: Project Management

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

APPENDICES

  1. The Cumulative Standard Normal Distribution
  2. Tutorial for MS Project 2016
  3. Project Plan Template