Project Management in Practice

Practical, hands-on approach, with use of Microsoft Project software integrated throughout.
* 120-day evaluation version of Microsoft Project packaged with book.
* Clear and accessible writing style.

Build real-world project management skills with a brief, hands-on text!

Following up on the extraordinary success of Project Management, 4/E Mantel and Meredith have teamed up once again, along with Scott Shafer and Margaret Sutton, to create Project Management in Practice- A Brief, Hands-on Text that shows how to do project management.

With it streamlined coverage and applied approach, the text offers a sturdy foundation of fundamental concepts and real-world project management skills. The authors clearly explain how to apply proven project management tools and techniques at each stage in a project life-cycle from selecting and initiating projects, to scheduling and budgeting, to project termination.

FEATURES

• Concise, hands-on approach to project management
• A CD-ROM packaged with this text containing a 120-day trial version of Microsoft® project 2000, in addition to Crystal Ball® 2000
• An appendix devoted to the use of Crystal Ball® 2000 with applications to project selection, budgeting, scheduling, and resource allocation
• Highly detailed examples
• Extensive review questions and exercises at the end of each chapter
• Emphasis on using computers, with numerous exercises that utilize project management software