George Vancouver: Understanding the context -- Christopher Columbus: Having a vision -- Henry the Navigator: Being a sponsor -- Ferdinand Magellan: Focusing on the goal -- Marco Polo: Understanding the customer -- Roald Amundsen: Planning -- James Cook: Integrating -- Hernan Cortes: Motivating...

The long road to lean -- What is lean? -- Overview of project management fundamentals -- Fundamental lean concepts, tools, and techniques -- Lean and project management processes -- Lean project management using the PDCA cycle -- Project management for a lean project using DMAIC -- Ten final...

ch. 1. Ethics and project management -- ch. 2. Why ethics should matter to project managers -- ch. 3. Project management code of ethics -- ch. 4. The ethical trends and challenges confronting project managers -- ch. 5. How ethics permeates the entire project life cycle -- ch. 6. Ethics and...

Whether you use budget, schedule, quality, or other criteria, the statistics by think tanks, institutes, associations, and other trade organizations all point to one inescapable conclusion: your project has a greater chance of getting into trouble than staying out of it. Based on the lessons...