Due to the increasing importance of product differentiation and collapsing product life cycles, a growing number of value-adding activities in the industry and service sector are organized in projects. Projects come in many forms, often taking considerable time and consuming a large amount of...

A must-read for any project management professional or student, the fourth edition of The AMA Handbook of Project Management provides readers with a clear overview of everything from individual projects to programs and strategic alignment.

With the development of information technology in recent years, there is a growing need to merge different technologies and services, to develop products, services and business models that span different industries. Corporations must have processes through which they can access share, and...

The book is intended to provide a much deeper understanding of agile principles, methodologies, and practices to enable project managers to develop a more agile approach and understand how to blend and tailor agile and traditional principles, methodologies, and practices to create an appropriate...

The application of project management techniques is generally considered standard practice in today's business environment. This is not to say it is always performed at a high level. What is not widely known is that the learning gap separating good project management from exceptional project...

By picking up where traditional risk management techniques begin to fail, this book brings together leading-edge thinking from a variety of disciplines and shows how these techniques can be used to conquer uncertainty in projects.The book addresses five key questions: Why is there uncertainty in...

A concise description of current best practice in project risk management whilst introducing the latest relevant developments enabling project managers, project sponsors and others responsible for managing risk in projects to do just that - effectively.

Have you ever been involved in a project that didn't require a meeting? Neither have we. Well-run project meetings allow teams to get through the maze of distractions and obstacles to achieve results. Unfortunately, many project meetings aren't well-run-they are viewed, by team members, as...

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Why Project Risk Management? -- The Doomed Project -- Risk -- Benefits and Uses of Risk Data -- The Project Risk Management Process -- Anatomy of a Failed Project: The First Panama Canal Project -- Chapter 2:...

This introduction for practitioners offers a balanced view of project financing, integrating legal, contractual, scheduling, and other areas that participate in large multiparty projects, large single-asset purchases, and broad-based financing programs for fleets of assets. It mixes theories and...