Project Management: (with MS Project CD Rom)

Project Management is a fast-growing and increasingly 'professionalised' discipline with record numbers of practitioners now gaining the PRINCE qualification. The formal tools and techniques of project management are being applied in an ever-wider range of industries and organisations. As a mainstream skill, critical to business success, and under closer scrutiny for the benefits it delivers, it's important the students of today -- and practitioners of tomorrow -- can rely on a comprehensive and contemporary text to support their learning. Drawing on the author's 20 years of teaching, research and consulting experience, Harvey Maylor's latest edition of Project Management delivers this in style.List of figures and tables Guided tour Preface Foreword Acknowledgements Publisher's acknowledgements Making sense of the project context 1 Introduction 2 Structures and frameworks 3 Projects and organisations Managing the project process: the 4-D model D1: Define it 4 Stakeholders, strategy and success 5 Initial planning D2: Design it 6 Time planning 7 Rethinking time planning: the critical chain approach 8 Cost and benefit planning 9 Stakeholders and quality 10 Risk and opportunities management D3: Do it 11 Project organisation: structures and teams 12 Management and leadership in projects 13 Control 14 Supply chain issues 15 Problem-solving and decision-making D4: Develop it 16 Project completion and review 17 Improving project performance Index