Project Managers Portable Handbook

Project Managers Portable Handbook, 3rd Revised edition--------------------------------------------------This title offers the latest project management data at your fingertips.Fully updated throughout, this hands-on guide gives you quick accessto current information on project management concepts and practices.Project Manager's Portable Handbook, Third Edition, offers concise,practical details on the fundamental knowledge, skills, and attitudesrequired to manage projects. Written by world-renowned project managementexperts, this compact reference summarizes best practices for defining,designing, developing, and producing project results. Handy tables,charts, models, and callout boxes illustrate pertinent informationin this essential on-the-job tool. It features such easy-to-find ProjectManagement topics as: the discipline of project management, projectorganizational chart, alternative project applications, the strategiccontext of projects, project leadership, project initiation and execution,project planning and control, the project culture, and, improving projectmanagement. Praise for previous editions: 'It is perhaps the one bookthat best summarizes a complete knowledge set to be applied in successfullymanaging projects. It is the one book that project managers shouldnot 'go to work' without' - Ken Rose, Book Review Editor, Project ManagementJournal. 'Unique and invaluable...direct, summarized style...wealthof information...annotated bibliography...one book a project managershould not be without' - PM Network.--------------------------------------------------Author Biography: David I. Cleland, Ph.D., is a Fellow of the ProjectManagement Institute (PMI(R)) and three-time recipient of PMI's DistinguishedContribution Award. He has been described as the Father of ProjectManagement and is honored annually with the presentation of the DavidI. Cleland Project Management Literature Award sponsored by PMI. Dr.Cleland continues to provide consulting assistance to internationalorganizations. He has authored or edited 40 books in the project managementand engineering management fields. Lewis R. Ireland, Ph.D., is anexecutive project management consultant based in Tennessee, servingboth U.S. and international clients. He is Past President and Chairof the Project Management Institute and a 25-year veteran of PMI(R).Dr. Ireland has been recognized by PMI for his contributions by theDistinguished Contribution Award and the Person of the Year Award,and by being elected a Fellow of the Project Management Institute.He currently serves as Past President of the American Society for theAdvancement of Project Management (asapm), a professional society dedicatedto better project management practices.