Project Management: Tools and Tradeoffs - Hardcover

Klastorin, Ted

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471413844 ISBN 13: 9780471413844

Verlag: John Wiley and Sons (WIE), 2003

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Book by Klastorin Ted

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This book presents the fundamental concepts of project management in a concise fashion, with an emphasis on the difficult tradeoffs that must be made by project managers. The authors describe the basic analytical tools and project management methodologies, and show how to apply these tools and methodologies to realistic problems. The book offers a unique balance of theory and practice, with emphasis on the uncertain, risky projects that managers have to manage in the real world. It takes an analytical and applied approach. It includes Excel templates for all models described in the book, on an accompanying disk.

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Explore real-world project management issues and trade-offs

If you want to bring a project to completion effectively and efficiently, project management software will only take you so far. To truly succeed, you'll need to understand the difficult problems and difficult trade-offs that project managers often face in the real world.

With Ted Klastorin's PROJECAT MANAGEMENT: TOOLS AND TRADE-OFFS, you'll have the practical and conceptual foundation you need to effectively address complex project management issues. The text describes the tools and methodologies that have been developed to assist project managers using spreadsheet models and templates, and shows how these tools and methodologies can be extended to deal with realistic problems.

Key Features

• Excel spreadsheets make analysis more realistic and intuitive.
• Takes an analytical and applied approach that shows how real managers work.
• Relates the material in the text to business and engineering.
• Presents a unique balance of theory and practice, with an emphasis on the Uncertain, risky projects that managers have to manage in the real world.
• Includes a new product development game and numerous short case studies that illustrate the complex issues faced by project managers.
• Presents current research that is relevant to PM practitioners and managers.
• An accompanying CD-ROM includes a student version of Microsoft Project, a student version of the @RISK add-on to Microsoft Project, spreadsheet templates described in the text, and a PowerPoint presentation for the text.

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• Verlag: John Wiley and Sons (WIE)
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0471413844
• ISBN 13: 9780471413844
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 242