Project Management: Tools and Trade-offs

Excellent Project Management textbook.

Explore real-world project management issues and trade-offs

If you want to bring a project to completion effectively and efficiently, project management software will only take you so far. To truly succeed, you'll need to understand the difficult problems and difficult trade-offs that project managers often face in the real world.

With Ted Klastorin's  PROJECAT MANAGEMENT: TOOLS AND TRADE-OFFS, you'll have the practical and conceptual foundation you need to effectively address complex project management issues. The text describes the tools and methodologies that have been developed to assist project managers using spreadsheet models and templates, and shows how these tools and methodologies can be extended to deal with realistic problems.

Key Features

• Excel spreadsheets make analysis more realistic and intuitive.
• Takes an analytical and applied approach that shows how real managers work.
• Relates the material in the text to business and engineering.
• Presents a unique balance of theory and practice, with an emphasis on the Uncertain, risky projects that managers have to manage in the real world.
• Includes a new product development game and numerous short case studies that illustrate the complex issues faced by project managers.
• Presents current research that is relevant to PM practitioners and managers.
• An accompanying CD-ROM includes a student version of Microsoft Project, a student version of the @RISK add-on to Microsoft Project, spreadsheet templates described in the text, and a PowerPoint presentation for the text.