Mastering Project Management: Applying Advanced Concepts to Systems Thinking, Control & Evaluation, Resource Allocation

Take charge of your teams and lead them to victory!

For nearly a decade, Mastering Project Management, has been the field's gold standard reference. Now, James Lewis has updated his classic guide, offering both practical, real-world guidance and a focus on higher-level tools and applications that you won't find anywhere else.

This fully revised second edition shows project managers and team leaders from all industries how to ramp up and fine-tune managing skills and bring all projects to a successful completion. Carefully avoiding any overlap from his other popular project management titles, Lewis clearly defines your role as a project manager and outlines the steps to mastering project management.

Lewis has also included the most up-to-date information on today's hot-button topics in the field, providing the know-how you need to:

  • Utilize the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK)
  • Survive “no-win” projects
  • Apply Six Sigma in project management
  • Improve estimating capability
  • Manage project risks
  • Identify customer requirements
  • Control costs
  • Understand systems thinking and apply it to projects

Lewis shows you how to manage multicultural project teams, coach team members for improved performance, and deal effectively with project stakeholders. He gives you an arsenal of tools for utilizing systems thinking, achieving optimal decision-making, reporting project status, and managing project change and configuration control. Lewis also covers the human element, showing you the most effective ways to conduct interviews, manage meetings, conduct performance reviews, and handle vendors and contractors.

If you want to be more than a casual project manager, if you desire to understand every function in your organization, if you aspire to higher management levels, the second edition of Mastering Project Management is your personal guide to success.

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Mastering Project Management: Applying Advanced Concepts to Systems Thinking, Control & Evaluation, Resource Allocation

Take charge of your teams and lead them to victory!

For nearly a decade, Mastering Project Management, has been the field's gold standard reference. Now, James Lewis has updated his classic guide, offering both practical, real-world guidance and a focus on higher-level tools and applications that you won't find anywhere else.

This fully revised second edition shows project managers and team leaders from all industries how to ramp up and fine-tune managing skills and bring all projects to a successful completion. Carefully avoiding any overlap from his other popular project management titles, Lewis clearly defines your role as a project manager and outlines the steps to mastering project management.

Lewis has also included the most up-to-date information on today's hot-button topics in the field, providing the know-how you need to:

  • Utilize the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK)
  • Survive “no-win” projects
  • Apply Six Sigma in project management
  • Improve estimating capability
  • Manage project risks
  • Identify customer requirements
  • Control costs
  • Understand systems thinking and apply it to projects

Lewis shows you how to manage multicultural project teams, coach team members for improved performance, and deal effectively with project stakeholders. He gives you an arsenal of tools for utilizing systems thinking, achieving optimal decision-making, reporting project status, and managing project change and configuration control. Lewis also covers the human element, showing you the most effective ways to conduct interviews, manage meetings, conduct performance reviews, and handle vendors and contractors.

If you want to be more than a casual project manager, if you desire to understand every function in your organization, if you aspire to higher management levels, the second edition of Mastering Project Management is your personal guide to success.

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Mastering Project Management: Applying Advanced Concepts to Systems Thinking, Control & Evaluation, Resource Allocation

Mastering Project Management: Applying Advanced Concepts to Systems Thinking, Control & Evaluation, Resource Allocation

by James P. Lewis
Mastering Project Management: Applying Advanced Concepts to Systems Thinking, Control & Evaluation, Resource Allocation

Mastering Project Management: Applying Advanced Concepts to Systems Thinking, Control & Evaluation, Resource Allocation

by James P. Lewis

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Overview

Take charge of your teams and lead them to victory!

For nearly a decade, Mastering Project Management, has been the field's gold standard reference. Now, James Lewis has updated his classic guide, offering both practical, real-world guidance and a focus on higher-level tools and applications that you won't find anywhere else.

This fully revised second edition shows project managers and team leaders from all industries how to ramp up and fine-tune managing skills and bring all projects to a successful completion. Carefully avoiding any overlap from his other popular project management titles, Lewis clearly defines your role as a project manager and outlines the steps to mastering project management.

Lewis has also included the most up-to-date information on today's hot-button topics in the field, providing the know-how you need to:

  • Utilize the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK)
  • Survive “no-win” projects
  • Apply Six Sigma in project management
  • Improve estimating capability
  • Manage project risks
  • Identify customer requirements
  • Control costs
  • Understand systems thinking and apply it to projects

Lewis shows you how to manage multicultural project teams, coach team members for improved performance, and deal effectively with project stakeholders. He gives you an arsenal of tools for utilizing systems thinking, achieving optimal decision-making, reporting project status, and managing project change and configuration control. Lewis also covers the human element, showing you the most effective ways to conduct interviews, manage meetings, conduct performance reviews, and handle vendors and contractors.

If you want to be more than a casual project manager, if you desire to understand every function in your organization, if you aspire to higher management levels, the second edition of Mastering Project Management is your personal guide to success.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780071593373
Publisher: McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date: 09/03/2007
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 432
File size: 5 MB

About the Author

James P. Lewis, Ph.D. is founder of The Lewis Institute, Inc. He is also the author McGraw-Hill's Project Planning, Scheduling, and Control, Third Edition (0-07-136050-6) and The Project Manager's Desk Reference, Third Edition (0-07-134750-X).

Table of Contents


Preface     ix
Acknowledgments     xi
What's it All About
So You Want to Master Project Management     3
The Job of Managing     9
Integrating Leadership and Management     21
Leading to Learn and Learning to Lead     39
Whole Brain Project Management     45
How to Achieve High-Performance Project Management     75
Power and Politics for Project Managers     83
Dealing with Cultural Differences     97
Defining Success and Failure     105
Organizing for Project Management     117
Tools and Techniques
A Review of the Standard Tools     127
The Need for Systems Thinking in Project Management     145
Understanding Systems Thinking     159
How to Apply Systems Thinking in Managing Projects     175
Managing Project Risks     185
Improving Decisions in Projects     203
Planning
Developing a Shared Understanding of a Project     217
Identifying Customer Requirements     227
Managing Resources in Project Scheduling     245
Scheduling Uncertainty in Projects     261
Control
Tracking Progress to Achieve Project Control     269
Accounting and CostControl     301
Change Control in Projects     317
Managing Vendors in Projects     323
Conducting Project Reviews     343
Managing Quality in Projects     355
Optimizing Project Performance
Improving Project Management Processes     365
Improving Estimating Capability     383
Managing Innovation in Projects     391
References     399
Glossary     405
Index     411
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