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For project management courses.
Project management fundamentals with broad applications
In its 5th Edition, Project Management: Achieving Competitive Advantage takes a contemporary, decisive, and business-oriented approach to teaching and learning project management. To promote a comprehensive, multi-industry understanding of the text, the author addresses project management theory within the context of a variety of successful organizations, whether they be publicly held, private, or nonprofit. Comprehensive case analysis and detailed exercises, including brand-new, contemporary case studies for the 5th Edition, give readers the tools to assess projects in real time, while also leveraging the latest project management technology, including MS Project 2016.
Brief Contents
Introduction: Why Project Management?
The Organizational Context: Strategy, Structure, and Culture
Project Selection and Portfolio Management
Leadership and the Project Manager
Scope Management
Project Team Building, Conflict, and Negotiation
Risk Management
Cost Estimation and Budgeting
Project Scheduling: Networks, Duration Estimation, and Critical Path
Project Scheduling: Lagging, Crashing, and Activity Networks
Advanced Topics in Planning and Scheduling: Agile and Critical Chain
Resource Management
Project Evaluation and Control
Project Closeout and Termination
Appendix A. The Cumulative Standard Normal Distribution Appendix B.
Tutorial for MS Project 2016 Appendix C. Project Plan Template
About our author Dr. Jeffrey K. Pinto is the Andrew Morrow and Elizabeth Lee Black Chair in the Management of Technology in the Sam and Irene School of Business at Penn State, the Behrend College. Dr. Pinto held previous academic appointments at the University of Cincinnati and the University of Maine. In 2016 he was a visiting scholar at the Kemmy School of Business, University of Limerick, Ireland. He is the Program Chair for Penn States Master of Project Management program.
The author or editor of 28 books and over 150 scientific papers that have appeared in a variety of academic and practitioner journals, books, conference proceedings, video lessons, and technical reports, Dr. Pintos work has been translated into 9 languages. He served as Editor of the Project Management Journal, is past-Department Editor for R&D and engineering projects with IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, and serves on several other journal editorial boards.
With over 30 years experience in the field of project management, Dr. Pinto is a two-time recipient of the Distinguished Contribution Award from the Project Management Institute for outstanding service to the project management profession. He received PMIs Research Achievement Award in 2009 for outstanding contributions to project management research. In 2017, he received the Research Achievement Award from the International Project Management Association in recognition of his career research contributions to the field of project management.
Dr. Pinto has taught and consulted widely in North America, South America and Europe on a variety of topics, including project management, new product development, supply chain management, information systems implementation, organization development, leadership, and conflict resolution.
