Project Management: Achieving Competitive Advantage, 5th edition

Published by Pearson (January 11, 2018) © 2019

  • Jeffrey K Pinto Penn State University-Erie

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For project management courses.

PM fundamentals with broad applications

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 give readers the tools to assess projects in real time. Students also leverage the latest project management technology, including Microsoft® Project 2016.

Hallmark features of this title

  • Project Profile sections highlight PM in action and reflect significant achievements and failures.
  • Research in Brief boxes feature current research results on relevant topics.
  • Integrated Project Exercises show students how to develop a detailed, comprehensive project plan. This includes scope, scheduling, risk assessment, and budgeting and cost estimation.
  • Sample problems and activities let students generate MS Project output files like network diagrams.
  • Integration with PMBoK means chapters in the text identify and cross-list corresponding knowledge areas and terminology from the latest edition of the PMBoK Guide.
  • A template helps students develop a fully-evolved project execution plan that addresses the critical elements of project scope (Appendix C).

New and updated features of this title

  • UPDATED: End-of-Chapter Cases illustrate PM principles and are based on real situations. New cases discuss London's Crossrail, NASA's Mars 2020 project, and Samsung's Galaxy Note. They include thought-provoking discussion questions.
  • UPDATED: Project Managers in Practice boxes include short profiles of real, practicing project managers. They give students a sense of the challenges these individuals routinely face.
  • UPDATED: Internet Exercises have students search online for key info and use web-based tools to analyze project activities.
  • EXPANDED: Set of sample PMP certification exam problems gives readers an idea of the types of questions typically asked on the exam.
  • UPDATED: All project examples and screen captures reflect MS Project 2016 in the 5th edition.
  • UPDATED: A focus on developing employability skills covers communication, critical thinking, collaboration, knowledge application and analysis, business ethics and social responsibility, IT and computer skills, and data literacy.
  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

About our author

Dr. Jeffrey K. Pinto is the Andrew Morrow and Elizabeth Lee Black Chair in the Management of Technology in the Sam and Irene School of Business at Penn State, the Behrend College. Dr. Pinto held previous academic appointments at the University of Cincinnati and the University of Maine. In 2016 he was a visiting scholar at the Kemmy School of Business, University of Limerick, Ireland. He is the Program Chair for Penn State’s Master of Project Management program.

The author or editor of 28 books and over 150 scientific papers that have appeared in a variety of academic and practitioner journals, books, conference proceedings, video lessons, and technical reports, Dr. Pinto’s work has been translated into 9 languages. He served as Editor of the Project Management Journal, is past-Department Editor for R&D and engineering projects with IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, and serves on several other journal editorial boards.

With over 30 years’ experience in the field of project management, Dr. Pinto is a two-time recipient of the Distinguished Contribution Award from the Project Management Institute for outstanding service to the project management profession. He received PMI’s Research Achievement Award in 2009 for outstanding contributions to project management research. In 2017, he received the Research Achievement Award from the International Project Management Association in recognition of his career research contributions to the field of project management.

Dr. Pinto has taught and consulted widely in North America, South America and Europe on a variety of topics, including project management, new product development, supply chain management, information systems implementation, organization development, leadership, and conflict resolution.

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