Project Management for Business Professionals

Acknowledgments.

Preface.

About the Contributors.

INTRODUCTION.

Overview: The Discipline of Project Management (D. Cleland).

Transition: The Project-Driven Organization (J. Knutson).

THE TECHNICAL TRACK.

Portfolio Management: Overview and Best Practices (J. Crawford).

Scope Management: Do All That You Need and Just What You Need (S. Globerson).

Requirements Management: Addressing Customer Needs and Avoiding Scope Creep (J. Frame).

Schedule Management: Seeing the Future by Mapping Out the Present (C. Pritchard).

Accounting and Financial Management: Finding the Project's Bottom Line (F. Toney).

Risk Management: Maximizing the Probability of Success (R. Westney).

Contracts and Procurement Management: Why Should You Care? (R. Mulcahy).

Earned Value Management: An Introduction (J. Koppelman & Q. Fleming).

Information Management: For the Project Manager in an Information Age (M. Hynes).

Project Closeout Management: More Than Simply Saying Good-Bye and Moving On (T. Cooke-Davies).

Multiple Project Management: Responding to the Challenge (J. Nevison).

Process Automation in Project Management: Today (V. Quinn).

Computer-Aided Project Management: Tomorrow (C. Belack).

eBusiness Project Management: The Future Is Today (D. Bienkowski).

THE HUMAN DIMENSIONS TRACK.

Organizational Project Management: Concept (R. Bauhaus).

Creating a Professional Project Management Organization: Design (J. Schneidmuller).

Organizational Deployment of Project Management: The Next Big "Aha" for Corporate Project Leaders (R. Storeygard).

Professional and Personal Development Management: A Practical Approach to Education and Training (R. Wideman & A. Shenhar).

Ethics Management: Are You Really Protected? (C. Daw).

Conflict Management: Opportunity for Relationship Building and Effective Decisions (G. Pitagorsky).

Role Management: The Integrative Roles in Project Management (R. Archibald).

Culturally Diverse Management: A Vital Skill for Managing Global Projects (V. Verma).

Expectations Management: Reconfirming Assumptions (M. Mayer).

Participative Management: Getting the Most from Your Team (P. Martin & K. Tate).

Virtual Team Management: Building a Successful Virtual Team (M. Haywood).

Team Infrastructure Management: Project Team Planning and Project Start-Up (D. Ono & R. Archibald).

Team Management: Working Effectively (H. Thamhain).

CONCLUSION.

Project Management: The Future (J. Pinto).

Index.