Project Management: A Managerial Approach

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

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
* 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(r) and Crystal Ball(r)

This text includes a CD-ROM containing a 120-day trial version of Microsoft Project(r) and a student version of Crystal Ball(r). 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.

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

688 pages, Hardcover

First published December 30, 1994

Reviews

[Caitlin]

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]

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

[Emilia Greendevald]

What stands out in the book is how clearly it connects project management with real organizational behavior and quantitative decision-making. In practice, the hardest part is often not managing a single project but keeping several initiatives aligned without losing focus or efficiency. I also came across a useful breakdown of tools and approaches for handling multi projects, I also advise you to read more in detail if this is also relevant for you. The book's framework still feels very practical for anyone dealing with structured yet complex environments.

[Michelle Sauvageau]

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]

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]

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]

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