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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Bender,Michael B.
  A manager’s guide to project management :learn how to apply best
practices / Michael B.Bender.
       p.cm.
  ISBN 978-0-13-713690-2 (hardback :alk.paper)  1. Project
management.  I.Title.
  HD69.P75B446 2010
  658.4'04—dc22
                                                2009021922

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Dedication

To my father, who crawled out of the coal mines of Pennsylvania and climbed the corporate ladder, but never sacrificed his time with his family. You taught me more about business than both of us ever knew.