Real-World Project Management: New Approaches for Adapting to Change and Uncertainty - Hardcover

DeWeaver, Mary; Gillespie, Lori

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0527763217 ISBN 13: 9780527763213

Publisher: Productivity Press, 1997

Synopsis

The book provides a simple, iterative spiral model for contemporary project management. A chapter is devoted to risk management, showing how to mitigate risk by planning for disruption and change in the life of the project. This fresh approach to project management takes into account the reality of constant change in project factors such as funding, sponsorship, technology, competitive situation, and regulation.

Special Feature
Real-World Project Management has many quoted insights from project managers in industry and government based on their experiences.

About this title

About the Author

Mary Feeherry DeWeaver, Ed.D., is a senior manager at Titus Austin, Inc. where she manages projects to prepare organizations to make the transition from traditional work environments to team-based workplaces. She has over 20 years' experience in project management working with government, military, corporate, and non-profit organizations.

Lori Ciprian Gillespie is principal of Instructional Communications, where she designs and implements performance improvement systems for both federal government and private industry clients. She is also a faculty associate on managing technological change, human factors engineering, and multimedia systems design at Johns Hopkins University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Productivity Press
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0527763217
• ISBN 13: 9780527763213
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 230