Breaking the Code of Project Management

A. Laufer

ISBN 10: 0230613519 / ISBN 13: 9780230613515

Published by Palgrave Macmillan 2009-03-31, 2009

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Breaking the Code of Project Management
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan 2009-03-31
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0230613519
• ISBN 13: 9780230613515
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This new classic is an examination of how to refigure project management to be more efficient and effective, particularly in terms of leadership. Using a case study approach, the author, Alex Laufer presents a specific set of guidelines on how to improve the team approach to any project, be it a new airline jet or an IT project.

About the Author

ALEXANDER LAUFER is the Barney Seidle Chair in Construction Engineering at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, where he served as Dean of the Faculty between 2001 and 2005. He is also currently director of the Center for Project Leadership of Columbia University. He is the author of the co-author of Shared Voyage: Learning and Unlearning from Remarkable Projects, NASA History Office, 2005; the co-author of Project Management Success Stories: Lessons of Project Leaders, Wiley, 2000; the author of Simultaneous Management: Managing Projects in a Dynamic Environment, AMACOM, The American Management Association, 1997; and the co-author of In Quest of Project Excellence through Stories, Procter& Gamble, 1994. He is currently a member of the Editorial Review Board of the Project Management Journal.