Project Management: A Managerial Approach, 4th Edition - Hardcover

Meredith, Jack R.; Mantel Jr., Samuel J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471298298 ISBN 13: 9780471298298

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 1999

Synopsis

An eclectic collection of studies ranging through nineteenth and twentieth-century literature, performance, music and film and provoking theoretical and critical reflections. This eclectic collection interrogates boundaries with reference to nineteenth and twentieth-century literature, performance, music and film from a diverse range of critical and theoretical perspectives. The authors probe the issue of negotiating boundaries in their innovative and imaginative investigations of science in Dickens, Eliot and Pater; narrative in Hawking and Weinberg; Bakhtin and the feminization of translation; lesbian romance by Jeanette Winterson; transitional females in migrant postcolonial fiction; pedagogy in South Africa; materiality and hypertext; the semiotic and money in Jay Mclnerney; the role of cliche in Beckett; music in Wim Wenders; the 'real' in fiction, theory and performance; creative and academic writing; politics and aesthetics. Original contributions by Terry Eagleton and Sally Shuttleworth support this volume's exciting challenge to established boundaries and help to make it a scintillating and thought-provoking read.

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Product Description

As businesses struggle to improve their record of completing large scale projects on time and on budget, interest in good project management skills is skyrocketing. For the past 10 years this book has set the standard for establishing project management principles. With a sharp focus on business (rather than engineering or construction), it provides all the guidelines and tools managers of projects need to succeed. Throughout, the emphasis is on project/team management techniques, rather than general management techniques. Critical aspects of project management are covered in detail, including available software packages, negotiation, project manager selection, and project auditing and terminating.

From the Back Cover

Know how to respond when things don’t fall into place.

Skydiving has its inherent risks. Even though a professional team, like the one depicted on the cover, can make skydiving seem perfectly choreographed; there are always uncertainties. Whether it’s getting a skydiving team into the air or a new product off the ground, no project has ever been completed exactly as planned.

With Meredith and Mantel’s Sixth Edition, you’ll not only learn how to select, initiate, operate, and control all types of projects; you’ll also learn how to manage risks and uncertainties. Written from a managerial perspective, the text equips you with the quantitative skills, knowledge of organizational issues, and insights into human behavior that you need to do project management effectively.

Updated and revised, this edition features current coverage of topics such as:

• Risk management
• Lifecycle costing
• Real options
• Organizational process assets
• Non–technical project terminations
• The phase/quality–gate process
• Requirements formulation analysis

Free trial version of Microsoft Project® and Crystal Ball®

This text includes a CD–ROM containing a 120–day trial version of Microsoft Project® and a student version of Crystal Ball®. Microsoft Project and Crystal Ball screenshots appear where relevant throughout the text. Additionally, a number of end–of–chapter exercises encourage you to apply these computer software packages to project management problems.

About this edition

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0471298298
• ISBN 13: 9780471298298
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 640