Project management in practice /
Jack R. Meredith ... [et al.].
- 5th ed.
- New Jersey : Wiley, c2014.
- xvi, 319 p. : col. ill. ; 26 p.
The world of project management -- The manager, the organization, and the team -- Project activity and risk planning -- Budgeting the project -- Scheduling the project -- Allocating resources to the project -- Monitoring and controlling the project -- Evaluating and terminating the project -- Appendix: probability and statistics.
This concise, hands-on text is ideal for a one semester project management course, or as a module on project management. This textbook is organized around the project management life cycle, and provides students with essential project management concepts while addressing an important area of industry growth: the use of projects to achieve the strategic goals of organizations.