Project Managers Portable Handbook
Authors: Cleland, David; Ireland, Lewis
ISBN-13: 978-0-07-174105-7
ISBN-10: 0071741054
©2011 | 3rd Edition | 464 pages , Softcover
Pub Date: August 2010
Price: US$ 49.95
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The Latest Project Management Data at Your Fingertips
Fully updated throughout, this hands-on guide gives you quick access to current information on project management concepts and practices. Project Manager’s Portable Handbook. third edition, offers concise, practical details on the fundamental knowledge, skills, and attitudes required to manage projects. Written by world-renowned project management experts, this compact reference summarizes best practices for defining, designing, developing, and producing project results. Handy tables, charts, models, and callout boxes illustrate pertinent information in this essential on-the-job tool.
Easy-to-Find Project Management Topics:
- The discipline of project management
- Project organizational chart
- Alternative project applications
- The strategic context of projects
- Project leadership
- Project initiation and execution Project planning and control
- The project culture
- Improving project management
PRAISE FOR PREVIOUS EDITIONS:
: “It is perhaps the one book that best summarizes a complete knowledge set to be applied in successfully managing projects. It is the one book that project managers should not ‘go to work’ without.” — Ken Rose, Book Review Editor, Project Management Journal
“Unique and invaluable…direct, summarized style…wealth of information…annotated bibliography…one book a project manager should not be without.” — PM Network
David I. Cleland, (Pittsburgh, PA) is a Fellow of the Project Management Institute and two-time recipient of the “Distinguished Contribution to Project Management Award.” He has been described as the “Father of Project Management” and is honored annually with the establishment of the “David I. Cleland Excellence in Project Management Literature Award” sponsored by the PMI.
Lewis R. “Lew” Ireland, (Clarksville, TN), Director of Research for the American Society for the Advancement of Project Management (ASAPM), is a 20-year veteran of the Project Management Institute and served as President and Chair in 1998. He received the PMI’s Distinguished Contribution Award and Person of the Year Award.
