Core Concepts, with CD: Project Management in Practice

Get a concise, hands-on, and applied approach to project management with the new edition of Core Concepts.  The authors take a computer program orientation, focusing on doing Project Management.   They organize the book around the project management life cycle, provide you with essential project management concepts, and tie them into the Project Management Body of Knowledge (Project Management Institute runs the PMBOK certification program).   This edition includes revised discussion of the integration of parent organization's strategies into project selection and management; and greatly expanded coverage of risk management and assessment in the project management process.

Professors Mantel and Meredith are the coauthors of two of the leading texts on Project Management: Project Management in Practice and Project Management: A Managerial Approach, with combined sales of over 275,000 copies. Professor Mantel is at the University of Cincinnati and Professor Meredith is at Wake Forest University.