Unlock your potential and achieve breakthrough performance in project management

If you're looking for a more robust approach to project management--one that recognizes the project environment and adapts accordingly--then this is the perfect resource. It not only guides you through the traditional methods, but also covers the adaptive and extreme approaches as well. You'll gain an in-depth understanding of each one and know exactly when and how to use them.

You'll also be introduced to the Adaptive Project Framework, which arms you with a new project management methodology. And with the help of two new case studies, you'll be able to put these ideas into practice and experience some of the contemporary nuances of projects.

This definitive guide to project management shows you how to:

• Take advantage of new variations on traditional project management methods, including risk assessment and control

• Decide the best method for managing specific types of projects by analyzing all of the pros and cons

• Apply the Adaptive Project Framework to the world of fast-paced, high-change, and complex projects

• Create a war room to successfully manage multiple team projects

• Determine how project portfolio management approaches can help companies achieve a greater return on investment

• Utilize all nine Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) standards advocated by the Project Management Institute (PMI)

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Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 23 Ratings

Standard-setting textbook on project management - 2008-09-23
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This is a substantial, substantive overview of project management. Students could use Robert Wysocki's book as the text for a survey course about various professional approaches to project management. It even includes problems, chapter-by-chapter "learning objectives" and case studies. However, professionals will find solid, useful content, as well. Wysocki brings a lot to the table: voluminous information, insights from his decades of experience and clear personal judgments about the various methods he covers. getAbstract recommends this authoritative text to project management practitioners, trainees and students.

A solid introduction the basic principles, concepts, and approaches to project management - 2008-07-05
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Project management is often treated as a belief system and adherents to one cult reject and condemn all others. This is unfortunate because project management has been subjected to honest research and decades of practice have also yielded objectives results. This book is now in its fourth edition and is a handy introduction to three approaches to project management. I think it is very suitable for a 101 course in project management or for the general reader wanting to get a handle on things. Of course, if you want an in depth practical implementation guide to this or that method of project management, you will think this book has serious shortcomings. But you will also be judging the book for not being something it was never intended to be.

Robert Wysocki first lays out the basic ideas behind Traditional Project Management. He carefully explains its strengths and weaknesses and why it fits more with well structure projects with known outcomes, resources, and timetables. There are many topics he covers during this process. For example, the author contrasts the Critical Path versus the Critical Chain in managing the length of the project and applying resources. He carefully explains how each of these topics works with the Adaptive Project Framework. This first part takes about two-thirds of the book.

When the project outcomes require more flexibility, where learning is expected to take place along the way, and especially where the project process will include iterations of some of its components, this will do best with the Adaptive Project Framework, and this is covered in part two. He also covers Extreme Project Management for those types of projects, such as software development, where the precise nature of the final deliverable may not be known in the beginning.

Again, if you are looking for a solid introduction to these topics and to get your hands around the basic concepts of project management, this is a good resource. If you are looking for a detailed practitioners guide to a specific method of project management, you should probably look elsewhere. This book was never intended to be that.

Reviewed by Craig Matteson, Ann Arbor, MI

a good tool for teaching and working - 2008-06-04
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The presented methodologies are very reallistic and up-to-date. The way the information is organized, could be more user friendly.

Still a great book - 2008-05-21
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even though it is outdated. You have all the major ingrediants for PMP.
It is very low cost. The computer software MS 2003 is outdated, but you can download the free trial version 2007.

Good book - 2007-09-23
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It's a good book on project management. I wish it was more in line with the standards from PMI. Also covers some advanced topics such as portfolio management but not in much detail.

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