Project Management: A Strategic Managerial Approach

by Jack R. Meredith

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Projects continue to grow larger, increasingly strategic, and more complex, with greater collaboration, instant feedback, specialization, and an ever-expanding list of stakeholders. Now more than ever, effective project management is critical for the success of any deliverable, and the demand for qualified Project Managers has leapt into nearly all sectors. Project Management provides a robust grounding in essentials of the field using a managerial approach to both fundamental concepts and real-world practice.

Designed for business students, this text follows the project life cycle from beginning to end to demonstrate what successful project management looks like on the ground. Expert discussion details specific techniques and applications, while guiding students through the diverse skill set required to select, initiate, execute, and evaluate today's projects. Insightful coverage of change management provides clear guidance on handling the organizational, interpersonal, economic, and technical glitches that can derail any project, while in-depth cases and real-world examples illustrate essential concepts in action.

Genres: Business, Textbooks, Management, Nonfiction, Education, Reference, School

544 pages, Paperback

First published December 30, 1994

Reviews

[Caitlin]

This book was definitely informative and taught me a lot about Project Management, but visually, it was hard to get through. This sounds like something trivial, but the human mind needs to be stimulated to stay focused on a subject, and the book's bland layout and color scheme did NOT help matters! Nice balance of focus on theoretical PM and then software procedures/strategies though.

[Mazen Astwani]

A good support to the PMBOK as it explains the methods with examples on implementation

[Emilia Greendevald]

What stands out in the book is how clearly it connects project management with real organizational behavior and quantitative decision-making. In practice, the hardest part is often not managing a single project but keeping several initiatives aligned without losing focus or efficiency. I also came across a useful breakdown of tools and approaches for handling multi projects, I also advise you to read more in detail if this is also relevant for you. The book's framework still feels very practical for anyone dealing with structured yet complex environments.

[Michelle Sauvageau]

Read this textbook for a Project Management course this semester. It was dense with information.. but the layout an formatting was terrible. Just plain text everywhere with minimal examples, charts, etc. to break up the text and make it more digestible. Made it tough to focus for reading assignments.

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[Madison]

Read this book as part of a project management course. It was fairly supplemental to the course but would have been an easier read without an abundance of excess material.

[Bibhu Ashish]

Nice book which gives a high level view of the project management as a profession for a person experienced in general management. The best part of the book is questions and case studies given at the end. Can be used as a study book for project management courses and also by students who are interested to know more about project management.
If you already into hard core project management you can give this book a miss. But yes, you can just glance through this to refresh your project management concepts.

[Anna]

Gotta do homework too. Reading this book for my online college class. Maybe it'll get me a raise!

[Mark]

This was a very dull book, but I enjoyed the subject.