Project management Books

Flying Men and Their Machines is a book that was originally published in 1916 by Clarence Winchester. The book is a literary and photographic record of facts concerning flying during the early years of aviation. It provides a comprehensive overview of...

""Dawn of Art in the Ancient World: An Archaeological Sketch"" is a book written by William Martin Conway and first published in 1891. The book is a comprehensive study of the earliest forms of art found in various ancient civilizations, including Egypt,...

The new edition of Improving Performance Through Appraisal and Coaching contains all the wisdom and step-by-step processes of the original, with all the guidance and tools you'll need to implement a program that gets maximum results. While workplaces and...

The global business environment has never been so complex, making supply chains more fragile than ever. A stable business environment seems like a distant dream in today's global marketplace; instability, not stability, has become the norm...

In this book, researchers from the Norwegian Concept Research Programme explore the paradoxes between theory and practice in collaboration with experts in the field of project governance.

This practical guide covers the steps necessary to sustain quality in a project from start to finish. The book shows how to identify risks at different processes, phases, and stages and offers directions on how to mitigate and reduce risks using...

Software development has been a troubling since it first started. There are seven chronic problems that have plagued it from the beginning:Incomplete and ambiguous user requirements that grow by >2% per month.Major cost and schedule overruns for large...

The Man Who Defuses Bombs is an expert's guide on how to avoid disputes and escalations by understanding and adopting best practice, so that problem situations in your technology projects don't turn into commercial disasters. And in the event that it's...

Research tells us that 80% of the people who fail at work do so for one reason-they do not relate well to others.  How well you and your colleagues work together can make the difference between a successful organisation or a poor one.  In this...

Good requirements do not come from a tool, or from a customer interview. They come from a repeatable set of processes that take a project from the early idea stage through to the creation of an agreed-upon project and product scope between the customer...

This book on biomimcry assessment tools studies the concepts of sustainability, sustainable construction practices, and the evaluation categories that constitute a sustainablity assessment tool. It is important reading for academics, professionals, and...

We cannot manage and control what we cannot measure and assess. Lack of approppriate assessmen tools and measures have been cited as a major reason for project failures, in terms of cost, schedule, and quality. This book launches the methodology for...

Recent computer-based tools for project planning and management focus on user-friendliness and interconnectivity. However, these programs function on the Critical Path Method, or CPM, which was created in the 1950s. These programs, which involve...

The performance of megaprojects is questionable, and a large percentage of them fail in one dimension or another. The challenges that contribute to these failures are known. Then why do these projects still fail at a high rate? Leading Megaprojects: A...

This book provides a foundational project management methodology relevant to the emergency management practice, and explains and demonstrates how project management can be applied in the context of emergency and public safety organizations.

A Survival Guide for Project Managers gives you a complete understanding of what it takes to successfully finish a project, giving you not only valuable tools like Work Breakdown Schedule, Gantt Charts, and Network Analysis, but also tools to...

Leading a team of people who don't report to you is a tricky endeavor--and an essential feature of a project manager's role. Discover the start-to-finish system for getting others to deliver top results.

The book presents a holistic approach to organization performance improvements by lessons learned management. Such an approach is required because specific methods, such as debriefing, task management or procedures updates, do not achieve actual...

The early explorers up through those of the early part of the last century were the supreme users of management practices that have been formalized today. Their expeditions had all the characteristics of a business project: goal setting,...

This book provides insight, measures, and tools to manage a program or project to be first place amongst its competitors and similar efforts. Providing breakthrough insight by showing how to understand and use team member motivation, it gives leadership...

Do you dream of creating a shoe brand and starting a company? In the book, How to Start Your Own Shoe Company, you follow two start-up companies from initial launch to retail sales and marketing. Both companies have a unique style, budget, and business...

Leadership, Ethics, and Project Execution provides a masterclass in the project and people management skills that set apart the most accomplished design and construction professionals. This textbook for graduate and advanced undergraduate students...

This book contains 74 selected papers presented at the 5th International Seminar of Contemporary Research on Business and Management (ISCRBM 2021), which was organized by the Alliance of Indonesian Master of Management Program (APMMI) and held in...

When budgets are dwindling, deadlines passing, and tempers flaring, who gets the blame? Project specialist Todd Williams offers a solution to ensure it isn't the project managers--or anyone, for that matter. Discover his trusted process for resuscitating...

Practical Academic can help you to maintain a high level of efficiency now that you are running your own research group. You may be encountering challenges in managing people, projects, and balancing your time. This book provides solutions and strategies...

Bringing together an international range of expertise, this comprehensive Companion to Technology Management is designed to facilitate the development of management frameworks adaptable for a wide range of organizations, as well as an overview of the...

This guide explains how to measure people's willingness to pay for goods and services, such as improved air quality, that are not traded in a market. It aims to help improve the assessment of potential investment projects.Accounting for the value of...

Become an expert at using JIRA 7 through this one-stop guide!Key Features:This comprehensive guide will help you implement, customize and administer JIRA 7 application to meet the needs of your organizationYou will get to know the strategies needed to...

The content of this book consists of five main volumes, namely; Project Initiation, Scope Management, Cost Management, Time Management and Quality Management.  A brief, yet essential discussion is carried out about project management in five...

The Handbook of Integrated Business and Project Management (IBPM) aims to achieve a paradigm shift in the current precepts and models applied to planning and management of projects and programs. It presents a body of knowledge that effectively...

The Handbook of Integrated Business and Project Management (IBPM) aims to achieve a paradigm shift in the current precepts and models applied to planning and management of projects and programs. It presents a body of knowledge that effectively...

This book presents an emotion centered research framework titled "emoha" for design innovation. It defines emoha and underlines the importance of the developed framework in culturalization of technology and thereby design innovation. The book explains...

This second edition of Professional Ethics for the Construction Industry empowers a new generation of built environment professionals to navigate the ethical challenges confronting them at every stage of a project, from the initial bid to its completion...

Although project management is a newly recognised profession, it deals with a number of significant challenges. We seem to operate in an unprecedented environment, rife with change, innovation and turbulence. Moreover, projects by their very nature tend...

The new 3rd edition of Nael Bunni's Risk and Insurance in Construction, now co-authored with Lydia Bunni, explains the need for insurance in construction and engineering projects and why it must be incorporated into the Conditions of Contract for...

This text is meant for introductory and midlevel program and project managers, Systems Engineering (SE), Technology Management (TM) and Engineering Management (EM) professionals. This includes support personnel who underpin and resource programs and...

Practical Management for the Digital Age is an innovative introductory management textbook that shows the sweeping impact of information technology on the business world. At the same time, it addresses the pressing issue of how environmental aspects are...

Essential reading for building owners, facilities managers, architects and surveyors, this book will also prove useful on business management and facilities management courses, and for those studying architecture, surveying and real estate management.

In 'Bid & Proposal Management Using AI: Winning Proposals - From RFPs to a Winning Solution,' you will embark on a transformative journey through the convergence of cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the art of crafting winning bids...

PAPAO management model is about selecting the proper method for large initiatives. Be it projects, operations, products, or value streams; each can be perceived through two simple questions that can guide the organization in selecting the suitable...

Agribusiness Project Appraisal is probably the first context-specific book to provide a methodology for managing projects in agriculture in Tanzania. It gives advice and support on how to carry out project planning, execution and evaluation. The...

“This is an extraordinary book. It differs from other project management books in perspective and depth. Neither boring theory, nor methodology is in the focus, rather the perspective of living for and working in projects. John Chapman provides...

If you want to develop your skills in project management and human resource management, then keep reading...Two manuscripts in one book:Project Management: An Essential Guide for Beginners Who Want to Understand Agile, Scrum, Lean Six Sigma, Kanban and...

If you want to know how to reduce financial wastage and cost overrun on projects and the applied best practices to enable project success, then this book is for you.This book reveals the many challenges of project control in practice and then provides...

This book provides a simple explanatory guide for the layman that clarifies the 'big picture' of the PMBOK.The Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK), published by the Project Management Institute, provides a roadmap of performance...

Organizations can deliver projects that are on time, are within budget, and produce the results they are intended to -and it starts with project managers. Author Michael J. Bettigole, who has painstakingly studied the patterns and circumstances...