Project Management Theory and Practice, Third Edition

Gary L. Richardson, Brad M. Jackson

• Publisher: Auerbach Publications
• Year: 2018
• ISBN:
  9780429874741
• Edition: 3
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Project Management
• Index: Business

Project Management: Theory and Practice, Third Edition gives students a broad and real flavor of project management. Bringing project management to life, it avoids being too sterilely academic and too narrowly focused on a particular industry view. It takes a model-based approach towards project management commonly used in all industries.

The textbook aligns with the latest version of the Project Management Institute's Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®) Guide, which is considered to be the de facto standard for project management. However, it avoids that standard's verbiage and presents students with readable and understandable explanations. Core chapters align with the Project Management Institute's model as well as explain how this model fits real-world projects. The textbook can be used as companion to the standard technical model and help those studying for various project management certifications. The textbook takes an in-depth look at the following areas important to the standard model:

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• Work Breakdown Structures (WBS)

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• Earned Value Management (EVM)

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• Enterprise project management

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• Portfolio management (PPM)

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• Professional responsibility and ethics

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• Agile life cycle

The text begins with a background section (Chapters 1–9) containing material outside of the standard model structure but necessary to prepare students for the 10 standard model knowledge areas covered in the chapters that follow. The text is rounded out by eight concluding chapters that explain advanced planning approaches models and projects' external environments.

Recognizing that project management is an evolving field, the textbook includes section written by industry experts who share their insight and expertise on cutting-edge topics. It prepares students for upcoming trends and changes in project management while providing an overview of the project management environment today. In addition to guiding students through current models and standards, Project Management: Theory and Practice, Third Edition prepares students for the future by stimulating their thinking beyond the accepted pragmatic view.

Index

A

Abnormal project termination, 491

AC see Actual cost (AC)

Acceptance Test-driven Development (ATDD), 373

Accomplishment variance, 467

Accountability, shared, 367

Activity, 138–139 see also Project work activities; see also Variable time estimate

standard deviation, 355

Activity on arrow approach (AOA approach), 150, 352 see also Time management

Activity on node approach (AON approach), 150–151 see also Time management

Activity time estimating techniques, 142–150 see also Time management

analogous estimating, 143

bottom-up estimating, 143–144

Delphi technique, 148–150

effort distribution estimating, 146–147

expert judgment, 142–143

heuristic estimating, 144

Monte Carlo simulation, 148

parametric estimating, 144–145

phased estimating, 145–146

Actual cost (AC), 458, 470

Ad-hoc meetings, 263 see also Stakeholder management

Ad hoc projects, 98, 101

Adaptive life cycle models

agile teams, 367–368

backlog preparation/refinement, 368–369

common agile practices, 367–372

corporate culture, 364–365

graphical user interface, 366

high-uncertainty work (vs. defined work), 365

history, 363–366

iteration planning, 369–371

iteration review/demonstrations, 371–372

iteration/daily standups, 371

management’s dissatisfaction with IT results, 365

measurements, 373–375

retrospectives, 372

task boards, 372

technology platform, 364

testing, 372–373

Administrative project closure procedure, 489

Aerospace/defense projects, 44

Affordability, 450

Agile life cycle see Adaptive life cycle models

Agile model methods, 85

Agile practitioner, 27

Agile processes, 81–82

Agile software development, 366

Agreement, 250

AIE see Applied information economics (AIE)

American National Standards Institute (ANSI), 87

Analogous estimating technique, 143 see also Activity time estimating techniques; see also Work package (WP)

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