Project Management in Practice

by Jack R. Meredith, Samuel J. Mantel Jr., Scott M. Shafer

Offering streamlined coverage with an applied approach, Project Management in Practice, 5th Edition focuses on the essentials of project management. This concise, hands-on text is ideal for a one semester project management course, or as a module on project management. This textbook is organized around the project management life cycle, and provides students with essential project management concepts while addressing an important area of industry growth: the use of projects to achieve the strategic goals of organizations.

Genres: Business, Nonfiction, Management

336 pages, Paperback

Published February 4, 2014

Reviews

[vy · Rating 4 out of 5]

good book

[Wendy · Rating 2 out of 5]

It's not that this book isn't informational, but the writing is awful. It has typos and grammar mistakes everywhere, and sometimes the writing is super awkward. Plus, it does a lot of describing and not a lot of showing - a lot of "and then you do this". It spends an entire chapter section on mind maps! Does a fully grown adult really need to learn how to create a mind map?! Anyway, this book is informative but makes it more complicated than it should be. Keep it simple, keep it to the important points.

[Empath Warrior · Rating 1 out of 5]

This was the required text for a PM class I was taking. I did not like this book. I felt that it was unclear and convoluted, creating more questions. The authors did not explain things very well, especially the Earned Value Management (EVM) section, where they changed the names of BCWP, BCWS, and ACWP, greatly confusing me. Some people really like this book... I'm just not one of those people.

[Cheryl Petersen · Rating 3 out of 5]

A very thorough, detailed book on Project Management.