Understanding Project Management: A Practical Guide - Softcover

Barrett, Dave C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 177338421X ISBN 13: 9781773384214

Publisher: Canadian Scholars, 2024

Synopsis

Understanding Project Management, Third Edition presents a practical, real-world guide for aspiring and practicing project managers. The text follows an ongoing case study from inception to completion. The case guides students through the key aspects of a project, including its scope, quality, schedule, and budget, while also exploring the less tangible challenges that can often either derail a project or lead to its success.

This well-updated new edition features expanded content on agile project management with a new scrum case study, exploration of hybrid project management techniques, and new content on the history of project management, working with remote and international project teams, and Earned Value Management.

Understanding Project Management clearly presents key waterfall, agile, and hybrid project management concepts with examples to enhance learning. This practical guide is an invaluable resource for project management courses at colleges and universities in the US and Canada.

About this title

About the Author

Dave C. Barrett is a full-time Professor and Program Coordinator of Project Management at Conestoga College in Kitchener, Ontario. He joined Conestoga's School of Business in 2004, after working 21 years in the private industry, where he led large-scale IT integration projects. Barrett holds Bachelor of Math and Master of Business Administration degrees as well as his Project Management Professional designation.

From the Back Cover

Newly updated and expanded from the best-selling second edition, Understanding Project Management provides readers new to the world of project management with a straightforward introduction to the field and is an ideal choice for introductory project management courses in any discipline. This concise and practical guide pares down project management processes to their most crucial components, presented in clear and accessible language for aspiring professionals. Alongside the common-sense concepts, actions, and document templates presented in the text, Dave C. Barrett guides readers through an illustrative case study that follows a moderately sized project from start to finish.

Featuring expanded content on agile and hybrid delivery approaches, updates to this new edition also include key takeaways from the PMBOK® Guide, Seventh Edition, the history of project management, working with remote and international teams, and Earned Value Management. Thanks to Barrett’s learning-centred style and expansive content additions, Understanding Project Management is a practical text valuable in both classroom and workplace settings.

Edition details

• Publisher: Canadian Scholars
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 177338421X
• ISBN 13: 9781773384214
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 277