Successful Project Management, 6th Edition

Gido/Clements’s best-selling SUCCESSFUL PROJECT MANAGEMENT, 6E presents everything you need to know to work successfully in today’s exciting project management environment, from the organization and management of effective project teams to planning, scheduling, and cost management. Revised chapters closely align with the PMBOK (Project Management Body of Knowledge) framework to ensure that you are mastering today’s best management practices. Coverage of the latest business developments and challenges introduce issues such as project constraints, the project charter, and how projects relate to an organization’s strategic plan.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Project Management Concepts

Part 1 Initiating a Project
Chapter 2 Identifying and Selecting Projects
Chapter 3 Developing Project Proposals

Part 2 Planning, Performing and Controling the Project
Chapter 4 Defining Scope, Quality, Responsibility and Activity Sequence
Chapter 5 Developing the Schedule
Chapter 6 Resource Utilization
Chapter 7 Determining Costs, Budget, and Earned Value
Chapter 8 Managing Risk
Chapter 9 Closing the Project

Part 3 People: The Key to Project Success
Chapter 10 The Project Manager
Chapter 11 The Project Team
Chapter 12 Project Communication and Documentation
Chapter 13 Project Management Orgaizational Structures