Project Planning, Scheduling, and Control, Sixth Edition: The Ultimate Hands-On Guide to Bringing Projects in On Time and On Budget - Hardcover

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1264286279 ISBN 13: 9781264286270

Publisher: McGraw Hill, 2022

Synopsis

The go-to guide for getting projects done on time and on budget―revised and updated with a sophisticated image program and contemporary examples

For more than 30 years, James P. Lewis's project management bible has been the benchmark guide for project managers, supervisors, MBA students and everyone studying to pass the PMP® exam. Packed with information on best practices, smart strategies, and a comprehensive survey of the issues you'll encounter as a project manager, it provides an thorough, applications-oriented understanding of the issues in the practice of contemporary project management and a useful reinforcement of the Project Management Institute's recommended success strategies.

Every chapter of Project Planning, Scheduling and Control contains a wealth of essential information―from the role of the project manager and description of the PMBOK® Guide to Whole Brain® project management and how to achieve high performance project management. Throughout this edition, you'll find all-new data supporting the information on project definition, planning, execution and control, in chapters that include "Headless-Chicken Projects and How to Prevent Them," "Developing Project Strategy," "Conducting Project Reviews" and more.

With an entirely new section offering more strategies on leadership, stakeholder relations, managing a remote team and beyond, and an appendix that includes helpful sections for schedule computations, calculations for an AOA network, and constrained end date scheduling, this latest edition of the classic guide offers the most up-to-date, thorough and hands-on preparation a project manager―or a project manager-in-training―can get.

About this title

About the Author

James P. Lewis, Ph.D., is the founder of The Lewis Institute, Inc., an association of professionals providing project management and behavioral consulting and training throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, England, and the Far East. This includes team building, project management, engineering management, and problem solving to several Fortune 100 and 500 companies in the United States. Lewis has trained more than 60,000 managers and supervisors since 1981, drawing on his many years of first-hand experience as a product engineering manager, chief engineer, and project manager. 

From the Back Cover

"Jim Lewis has written a detailed “how to” book on managing projects–and since all work is project work, it's a crucial book for driving performance especially with remote teams.  His methods have stood the test of time, having been introduced in 1991 and I recommend you keep his book as a reference at all times."
—Verne Harnish, Founder Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO) and author of Scaling Up (Rockefeller Habits 2.0)

"Every project manager will find something of value in this book. It’s a practical, readable and unapologetic discussion of the systems and tools of project management that really work."
—Dean R. Gehring, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Newmont Corporation

"Using the art of storytelling, Dr. James Lewis explains the ingredients for a successful project: determine a strategy, be flexible, identify and manage risks, and plan for contingencies. His key ingredient is how to work creatively with people. The book is a must read for all project managers who want to learn how to be an effective project leader." 
—Marcus Udokang, Project Manager,  Aivaz Consulting,  Inc.

"There are thousands of project management books out there but if you are looking for a book that teaches you how to successfully deliver projects on time and on budget, and within the scope, this is the book.  The sixth edition contains the most recent advancements in the project management world without losing the fundamentals that have made this book a go-to to acquire project management knowledge. I highly recommend this book and it is a must-have for all project management professionals."
—Dr. Tony Prensa, PhD, PMP©, President & CEO TP Global Business Consulting LLC. October 2022

"Jim Lewis' new book Project Planning, Scheduling and Control master class in Project, Program, and Business management and leadership! It captures the essence of how talented people, including all the stakeholders, can work together to create and deliver a compelling vision and value for the greater good! As we all know, this capability, operational process, and expected behaviors is needed more than ever for the good of us all! Thank you Jim!"
—Alan Mulally, Former CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Boeing Information, Space and Defense Systems, and the Ford Motor Company

"Good project management is difficult. Lewis fills in the practical gaps where most all project management texts fall short. This work empowers the reader by making project management real, fun and accessible. If you are serious about project management, be prepared to dog-ear more than half of this book."
—Chris Pappas, CEO, Forthea

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw Hill
• Publication date: 2022
• ISBN 10: 1264286279
• ISBN 13: 9781264286270
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 528