The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course: Project Management, Second Edition

Schedule and coordinate projects seamlessly, start to finish!

In today's ultracompetitive world of business, those in charge want results on time and on budget--and they're turning to project managers to deliver. Skilled project managers are in high demand, and the profession is growing at an unprecedented rate.

The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course: Project Management, Second Edition, combines expert insight, advice based on realworld experience, and the latest developments into a single, concise package. In the span of 36 hours, you'll learn how to:

• Plan, launch, manage, and close projects
• Build the best team for each project
• Shape and drive a project using effective leadership
• Manage quality, costs, time, and risk
• Deploy the latest project management technologies

Complete with chapter-ending self-tests and a comprehensive online final exam, The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course: Project Management, Second Edition, provides the guidance you need to manage any project under any conditions.

Helen S. Cooke, PMP, and Karen Tate, PMP, have held project management positions in corporations, government, engineering, and consulting firms around the world. Both have also held leadership positions within the Project Management Institute, a global not-for-profit professional organization. Cooke lives in the Chicago area, and Tate resides in Cincinnati, Ohio.


Karen Tate is president of project management consultancy The Griffin Tate Group, Inc., and coauthor of Getting Started in Project Management and the bestselling Project Management Memory Jogger. Karen serves on the board of PMI, The Project Management Institute.