Project Management - Achieving Competitive Advantage, Global Edition - Grand Format

Project management has become an integral part of virtually every business model and of operations across a range of industries. The fifth edition of Project Management : Achieving Competitive Advantage approaches its subject through general principles as well as specific examples, covering individual project execution as well as strategic perspectives. The text illustrates the computational, software, and organizational aspects of project management while demonstrating the breadth of project challenges that students may have to tackle, regardless of their career aspirations.
This book includes the following features and resources to help students develop a mastery of the discipline : - Project Profiles are current examples of project management in action that include project success stories as well as project failures. - Case Studies provide students with fictitious and real situations to analyze. These include several seminal cases from the discipline. - Integrated Project Exercises teach students to develop project plans and learn the mechanics of scoping, scheduling, risk assessment, budgeting, and cost estimation.
- Development of Employability Skills is a core focus of this edition, and the text, exercises, tutorials, and cases have been modeled to maximize the students' prospects in their careers.