| Project Management: The Managerial Process (McGraw-Hill/Irwin Series Operations and Decision Sciences) |  | Author: Clifford F. Gray
Publisher: Irwin/McGraw-Hill
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 217594
Format: Student Edition
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 4th
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 608
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.7
Dimensions (in): 10.3 x 8.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0073525154
EAN: 9780073525150
ASIN: 0073525154
Publication Date: May 2008
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Product Description
Project Management strikes a balance between the technical and human aspects of managing projects. It is suitable for a course in project management and for professionals who seek a project management handbook. This text addresses the major questions and issues the authors have encountered while teaching and consulting with practicing project managers in domestic and foreign countries. The text is very contemporary and up-to-date. This application-oriented text provides a road map for managing any type of project--for example, information technology, R & D, engineering design, construction, pharmaceutical, and manufacturing. The text helps the reader discover the strategic role of projects in contemporary organizations, how projects are prioritized, what tools and techniques can be used to plan and schedule projects, what organization and managerial styles will improve chances of project success, how project managers orchestrate the complex network of relationships, factors that contribute to the development of a high performing project team, the project system which will help gain some measure of control, how project managers prepare for a new international project in a foreign culture, and finally how senior management can develop a supportive organizational culture for implementing projects.
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 Project Management Excellent September 29, 2008
This book was is excellent condition. Just like all the other books I buy from Amazon. Some high lighing, but I knew of that before I purchased the book. Overall, I would recommend this seller to other buyers.
Good introductory book, but impractical June 4, 2008
This wordy book is more heavy on management than on project management because the business professors are understandably not trained in project-specific disciplines. Hence, there is inadequate coverage of how projects are actually managed, particularly costing and key contractual issues. Even on their own terrain, the business relations are mostly asserted without solid research backing (e.g. section on culture, where certain cultures are asserted to be pro-projects, but the causal links are missing). If you are looking to teach students basic PM processes, this book is worth a look as the explanation is clear. But if you are a practitioner, learn from your discipline-specific masters. So I have to knock off 2 stars for inadequate coverage, and impracticality.
Good textbook for a novice July 1, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It seems that many people didn't like this book, but I used it for a class on PM & found it to be pretty good. I had no prior knowledge of the field. I really liked the accompanying Student CD-ROM for study & review of the material. I used the Microsoft Project trial CD-ROM & found that extremely useful also. I would recommend it as introductory material.
 Good to go. April 2, 2007
1 out of 7 found this review helpful
Product was delivered on time and in the condition as described. Good deal.
 This is the worst textbook I have ever seen January 11, 2007
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
There are phrases and questions that worded very poorly. Many times I have to re-read a section 3-4 times to try to decipher. Many of the questions do not apply or correspond the text.
The exercises in the back of the book have not connection to the actual material. Quite often the reader is left to searching the Internet or consulting the teacher to fill in the gaps.
This is a very poorly written book, and will likely cause more confusion than it educates.
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