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| Project Management: A Managerial Approach | 
 enlarge | Authors: Jack R. Meredith, Samuel J., Jr. Mantel
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
Buy New: $88.00
Buy New/Used from $80.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  (32 reviews)
Sales Rank: 6839
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 6
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 688
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 7.4 x 1.2
ISBN: 0471715379
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.404
EAN: 9780471715375
ASIN: 0471715379
Publication Date: December 6, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Know how to respond when things don't fall into place.
Skydiving has its inherent risks. Even though a professional team, like the one depicted on the cover, can make skydiving seem perfectly choreographed; there are always uncertainties. Whether it's getting a skydiving team into the air or a new product off the ground, no project has ever been completed exactly as planned.
With Meredith and Mantel's Sixth Edition, you'll not only learn how to select, initiate, operate, and control all types of projects; you'll also learn how to manage risks and uncertainties. Written from a managerial perspective, the text equips you with the quantitative skills, knowledge of organizational issues, and insights into human behavior that you need to do project management effectively.
Updated and revised, this edition features current coverage of topics such as:
* Risk management
* Lifecycle costing
* Real options
* Organizational process assets
* Non-technical project terminations
* The phase/quality-gate process
* Requirements formulation analysis
Free trial version of Microsoft Project(r) and Crystal Ball(r)
This text includes a CD-ROM containing a 120-day trial version of Microsoft Project(r) and a student version of Crystal Ball(r). Microsoft Project and Crystal Ball screenshots appear where relevant throughout the text. Additionally, a number of end-of-chapter exercises encourage you to apply these computer software packages to project management problems.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 27 more reviews...
 Worthless book May 14, 2008
I don't recommend this book. The two authors don't blend well. The terminology seems to constantly change and never is consistent with PMI's PMBoK. Our professor will not be using this text again.
Disappointing for a Seasoned PM April 25, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Leave this book in the academic community. Ignore it in the real world PM office.
This book puts greater emphasis on academic PM babble than it does on real world project management necessities. As such, the book de-emphasises many important points that are necessary to run a project in the real world.
The critical path method in this book suffers from an -off by one- error. Check the PMBOK (2000) for verification.
The authors made many references to the work of others which made the book twice as long as it could have been. No one had time to read any of the references that appeared to be interesting with hope of finding actual usable and valuable information.
There was only passing references of risk, the importance of communication, personalities, and schedule disruption. There was nothing on these subjects that would assist a PM in the real world.
Disappointingly, this book only used 1/3 of a chapter for Earned Value. It put minimal emphasis on EV other than to provide the equations. EV is very important in the PM world.
The chapter on Project Termination was good. - The rest of the book was disappointing.
This book should be used for academic PM introductory purposes only.
Sorry for the disappoint review but I was disappointed.
 "Project Management A Managerial Approach" adds depth and perspective to commercial construction management April 8, 2008
Commerical construction project management frequently focuses on repetition of very similar projects. Approaches and patterns of execution for new projects are frequently selected without consideration of changed conditions or new possibilities. " Project management" adds thought provoking new material that assists a broader perspective.
In the case studies, there were many examples from the manufactoring sector, and the examples in the service sector tended to have at least some relation to the " brick and mortar" world. This made the discussions of the subjects of budgeting and cost estimating, scheduling, and resource allocations both relavant to commercial building project management, and different enough to provide a new point of view. A helpful departure from many project management books that center on IT.
JF McCarthy Pareto BI publishing Choosing Project Success - A Guide for Building Professionals
 Suffices, but expect to supplement April 1, 2008
This book does not use enough detail to explain some of the concepts that turned out to be important in the class I was using it for. A prime example is its treatment of Earned Value Analysis, in which it is not made clear how some numbers are reached (PV, for example). Further, it really seems to be just a very expensive M$ Project manual. If you can avoid this book, do so.
Absolutely worth reading February 9, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I purchased this book for a graduate level course as recommended by the professor. It really gives you a good and sufficient insight with a great amount of detail in projects managers' tasks and duties along with case studies. I recommend this to any one who's interested in learning more about Project Manager.
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