Project Management. A Managerial Approach.

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

All project managers have discovered at one point or another that no project has ever been completed exactly as planned. With the seventh edition of Project Management, project managers will be better prepared to select, initiate, operate, and control all types of projects while managing risks and uncertainties. The book includes screenshots of Microsoft Project and Crystal Ball throughout the pages. A number of end-of-chapter exercises also show how to apply these computer software packages to project management problems. Project managers will gain the quantitative skills, knowledge of organizational issues, and insights needed to do project management effectively. About The Author: Jack Meredith is currently Professor of Management & Broyhill Distinguished Scholar & Chair in Operations at the Graduate School of Management at Wake Forest University. Dr. Meredith's research has focused on the strategic and operational problems that managers face, particularly those concerning the management of advanced technology. He received his BS and BSME at Oregon State University and his MBA and PhD at the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Meredith has written eight books on operations management, project management and management science, including Project Management and Operations Management for MBAs. He received the school's inaugural Cowan Research Prize in 2002, the Academy of Management's 2003 Distinguished OM Scholar Award, and was inducted into the Oregon State University Engineering Hall of Fame in 2004. Table Of Contents: ?CHAPTER 1: Projects in Contemporary Organizations. PART I: PROJECT INITIATION. ?CHAPTER 2: Strategic Management and Project Selection. ?CHAPTER 3: The Project Manager. ?CHAPTER 4: Negotiation and the Management of Conflict. ?CHAPTER 5: The Project in the Organizational Structure. PART II: PROJECT PLANNING. ?CHAPTER 6: Project Planning. ?CHAPTER 7: Budgeting and Cost Estimation. ?CHAPTER 8: Scheduling. ?CHAPTER 9: Resource Allo

Genres: Business, Textbooks, Management, Reference, School, Nonfiction

608 pages, Paperback

First published December 30, 1994

Reviews

[Caitlin · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was definitely informative and taught me a lot about Project Management, but visually, it was hard to get through. This sounds like something trivial, but the human mind needs to be stimulated to stay focused on a subject, and the book's bland layout and color scheme did NOT help matters! Nice balance of focus on theoretical PM and then software procedures/strategies though.

[Mazen Astwani · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good support to the PMBOK as it explains the methods with examples on implementation

[Michelle Sauvageau · Rating 2 out of 5]

Read this textbook for a Project Management course this semester. It was dense with information.. but the layout an formatting was terrible. Just plain text everywhere with minimal examples, charts, etc. to break up the text and make it more digestible. Made it tough to focus for reading assignments.

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[Madison · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read this book as part of a project management course. It was fairly supplemental to the course but would have been an easier read without an abundance of excess material.

[Bibhu Ashish · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice book which gives a high level view of the project management as a profession for a person experienced in general management. The best part of the book is questions and case studies given at the end. Can be used as a study book for project management courses and also by students who are interested to know more about project management.
If you already into hard core project management you can give this book a miss. But yes, you can just glance through this to refresh your project management concepts.

[Anna]

Gotta do homework too. Reading this book for my online college class. Maybe it'll get me a raise!

[Mark · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was a very dull book, but I enjoyed the subject.