Gary L. Richardson

Project Management Theory and Practice (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Updated to reflect the Project Management Institute's (PMI's) Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide), Fifth Edition, the new edition of this bestselling textbook continues to provide a practical and up-to-date overview of project management theory. Project Management Theory and Practice, Second Edition explains project management theory

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 670
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781482254976
• Artikelnr.: 57082452

Autorenporträt

Gary Richardson is the PMI endowed professor of project management at the University of Houston College of Technology graduate project management program. This program serves both the internal and external professional community in regard to the theory and practice of project management. He comes from a broad professional background including industry, consulting, government, and academia.

During the early phase of his career he was an officer in the U.S. Air Force, followed by industry stints at Texas Instruments as a manufacturing engineer, and then by consulting assignments at the Defense Communications Agency, Department of Labor, and the U.S. Air Force (Pentagon) in Washington, D.C. The latter half of his career was spent with Texaco, Star Enterprise (Texaco Aramco joint venture), and Service Corporation International in various IT and CIO-level management positions. Interspersed through these periods he was a professor at Texas A&M, the University of South Florida, and the University of Houston, and also did other adjunct professor stints at three other universities. Gary has previously published four computer-related textbooks and numerous technical articles.

Through his experiences in over 100 significant sized projects of various types, he has observed frequently encountered management issues and has been an active participant in the evolution of management techniques that have occurred over this time.

Gary received a BS in mechanical engineering from Louisiana Tech, an AFIT postgraduate program in meteorology at the University of Texas, an MS in engineering management from the University of Alaska, and a PhD in business administration from the University of North Texas. He currently teaches the PMP Prep course and other graduate-level project management courses at the University of Houston, plus various continuing education courses.

Inhaltsangabe

I. The Project Environment 1. Introduction 2. Evolution of Project
Management 3. Project Types 4. Organizational Environment 5. Project Life
Cycle 6. Project Success Strategies II. Project Foundation 7. Project
Initiation 8. Project Scope Management 9. Developing the Project Schedule
10. Project Cost Management 11. Project Resource Management 12. Risk
Management III. Project Foundation Extended 13. Communication Management
14. Procurement Management 15. Quality Management 16. Project Integration
17. Project Team Management IV. Project Performance Monitoring 18. Project
Execution and Control 19. Change Management 20. Earned Value Management 21.
Project Metrics 22. Tracking Project Status 23. Project Closing Process V.
Advanced Techniques 24. Project Model Variability and Reality 25. Adaptive
Life Cycle Models 26. Critical Chain Model 27. Variable Tasks Planning and
Control Model 28. Project Simulation 29. A Conceptual Hybrid Model 30. The
Future of Project Management