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PEARSON INDIA Project Management Third Edition by Harvey Maylor
The third edition ofthis successful textbook represents a major development in content, approach and pedagogy. Combining a strong academic approach withrelevant practical cases, the text skillfully shows the range ofissues that face project managers through the logic of the 4-Dproject cycle. Project Management is used extensively to accompanycourses on undergraduate, masters and MBA programmes, as well asfor in-company training and for professionals wanting to bringthemselves up-to-date with developments in the field.
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Six new chapters including expanded coverage of structures and frameworks, strategy, planning and review.
New topics include critical chain project management and supply chain management.
The relevant areas of both APM and PMI bodies of knowledge are shown in each chapter.
Updated and new cases.
New pedagogical features including learning objectives for each chapter, end of chapter summaries and improved sign-posting to sources of further information.
Considers the subject from a strategic perspective, covering both the role of projects in the execution of organisational strategy and the application of strategic principles in projects.
Covers a wide range of project settings, from the traditional large-scale industrial projects through to small-scale personal projects, in both service and manufacturing settings.
Considers projects as being a core business activity for most organisations.
Each chapter contains examples of Project Management in Practice as well as discussion questions and exercises.
The use of structures helps explain what is going on at different points in the life-cycle of a project.
Introduction
Structures and frameworks
DEFINE THE PROJECT
Strategy and project management
Project definition
DESIGN THE PROJECT PROCESS
Time planning
Critical chain project management
Cost and quality planning
Plan analysis and risk management
DELIVER THE PROJECT (DO IT!)
Project organisation: structures and teams
Management and leadership in project environments
Control of projects
Supply chain issues
Problem-solving and decision-making
Project completion and review
Improving project performance