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The Project Manager's Guide to Making Decisions reveals the importance of good decision-making to project success, providing the opportunity to develop skills that are often neglected in traditional project management training.
Authors Robert A. Powell and Dennis M. Buede highlight the hundreds of decisions involved in managing complex, large-scale projects and in supporting the project management life cycle. They present an overview of decision analysis as it relates to project management, while also providing a variety of techniques to facilitate the decision-making process.
A refreshing approach to project management and a much needed addition to literature available on the subject, this book shows how to handle efficiently and productively the decisions required for really successful project management.
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LTC Robert Powell, Ph.D., is the systems management program director and course director at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He has a Ph.D. in systems engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology. He has written several articles on decision-making, including one with Dennis Buede in the March 2006 issue of PM Journal.
Dennis Buede, Ph.D., is executive decision analyst, vice president, and chairman of the board at Innovative Decisions in Chantilly. He was formerly a professor at Stevens Institute of Technology and George Mason University. He has a Ph.D. and an MS in engineering-economic systems from Stanford University. He has written numerous journal articles on decision-making, as well as two books: The Engineering Design of Systems and (with co-author) Decision Synthesis: The Principles and Practice of Decision Analysis.
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