Understanding Project Management, Third Edition presents a practical, real-world guide for aspiring and practicing project managers. The text follows an ongoing case study from inception to completion. The case guides students through the key aspects of a project, including its scope, quality, schedule, and budget, while also exploring the less tangible challenges that can often either derail a project or lead to its success.This well-updated new edition features expanded content on agile project management with a new scrum case study, exploration of hybrid project management techniques, and new content on the history of project management, working with remote and international project teams, and Earned Value Management.
Understanding Project Management clearly presents key waterfall, agile, and hybrid project management concepts with examples to enhance learning. This practical guide is an invaluable resource for project management courses at colleges and universities in the US and Canada.
Table of Contents:
List of Sample Documents and Templates
Preface
AcknowledgementsPart I: Introduction to Project Management
Chapter 1: Understanding the Project Environment
Part II: Waterfall Project Management
Chapter 2: Starting the Project
Chapter 3: Stakeholder Planning
Chapter 4: Scope Planning
Chapter 5: Schedule Planning
Chapter 6: Budget Planning
Chapter 7: Project Team Planning
Chapter 8: Quality Planning
Chapter 9: Risk Planning
Chapter 10: Communications Planning
Chapter 11: Executing, Monitoring, and Controlling the Plan
Chapter 12: Managing Disruptions to the Plan: Issues and Change
Chapter 13: Managing the Human Resources Aspects of the Project
Chapter 14: Project Procurement
Chapter 15: Closing the Project
Part III: Agile and Hybrid Project Management
Chapter 16: An Overview of Agile
Chapter 17: The Scrum Framework
Chapter 18: Hybrid Project Management
Appendix 1: Critical Path Analysis—The Calculations
Appendix 2: An Overview of Earned Value Management
References
Index
About the Author :
Dave C. Barrett is a full-time Professor and Program Coordinator of Project Management at Conestoga College in Kitchener, Ontario. He joined Conestoga's School of Business in 2004, after working 21 years in the private industry, where he led large-scale IT integration projects. Barrett holds Bachelor of Math and Master of Business Administration degrees as well as his Project Management Professional designation.
Review :
This book is very valuable and practical in use. I apply it in a business project planning course, and the clear explanations of project management principles and tools are proven to be very insightful and drive student engagement." - Rogier ten Kate, Professor and Program Coordinator, International Business Management, Durham College"Understanding Project Management continues to be an excellent resource for both myself (in my own professional practice) and for my software engineering students. The provided project management templates, along with easy-to-understand instruction, examples, and visuals, enable my students to learn-by-doing while experiencing and reflecting on the various important steps and checkpoints in a project life cycle." - Dr. Timothy Maciag, Lecturer, Software Systems Engineering, University of Regina
