This book blends academic rigor and real world experience on the agile and planning schools of project management and the process of becoming a project leader.
To some, project management is all about logically and rationally planning out dependencies and mapping them out into a flawless plan;
With a treatment of both the technical and behavioral issues in project management, this book offers coverage of a broad range of industries to which project management principles can be applied. It focuses on how project management is integral to the organization as a whole.
Intended for teaching project management at the advanced undergraduate or master's level, this text is appropriate for classes on the management of service, product, engineering projects, as well as information systems (IS). It also addresses project management from a management perspective rather than a cookbook, special area treatise.
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