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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Principles of project management: collected handbooks from the
Project Management Institute/ with a new introduction by John R.
Adams
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 1-880410-30-3 (pbk.)
1. Industrial project management—Handbooks, manuals, etc.
I. Project Management Institute
HD69.P75P677 1996
658.4’04––dc21 96-51592
CIP
Copyright ©1997 by the Project Management Institute. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, manual, photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without prior written permission of the publisher.
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