Project Management
November 2024 | 528 pages | Sage UK
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Description

The second edition of this comprehensive textbook has been fully revised and updated, streamlining chapters and ensuring accessibility. Sustainability is now at the core of this textbook, showing students how projects can achieve success and create value for all stakeholders, ensuring projects for people, planet and prosperity. 

Key features of this edition include: 
Sustainability Development Goal icons throughout highlighting where topics related to sustainability are covered. 
New and expanded coverage of agile approaches, remote working, digitalisation, artificial intelligence and Industry 4.0. 
Over 100 case studies from across different industries and countries such as Spain, Denmark, Qatar, Kenya, South Africa, Australia and Brazil. 

With an array of pedagogical features and complemented by supplementary online resources, this textbook is essential reading for students and managers undertaking a project management course at either the undergraduate or postgraduate level.

Contents

A Guide to Project Management

A Guide to Project Management

Valuing Projects

Valuing Projects

Defining Projects

Defining Projects

Managing Projects

Managing Projects

Executing Projects

Executing Projects

Organizing Projects

Organizing Projects

Leading Projects

Leading Projects

Teamwork

Teamwork

Managing Uncertainty

Managing Uncertainty

Collaborating with Stakeholders

Collaborating with Stakeholders

Learning and Innovating

Learning and Innovating

Complexifying Projects

Complexifying Projects

Ending Projects

Ending Projects

Additional materials

Description

The second edition of this comprehensive textbook has been fully revised and updated, streamlining chapters and ensuring accessibility. Sustainability is now at the core of this textbook, showing students how projects can achieve success and create value for all stakeholders, ensuring projects for people, planet and prosperity. 

Key features of this edition include: 
Sustainability Development Goal icons throughout highlighting where topics related to sustainability are covered. 
New and expanded coverage of agile approaches, remote working, digitalisation, artificial intelligence and Industry 4.0. 
Over 100 case studies from across different industries and countries such as Spain, Denmark, Qatar, Kenya, South Africa, Australia and Brazil. 

With an array of pedagogical features and complemented by supplementary online resources, this textbook is essential reading for students and managers undertaking a project management course at either the undergraduate or postgraduate level.

Contents

A Guide to Project Management

A Guide to Project Management

Valuing Projects

Valuing Projects

Defining Projects

Defining Projects

Managing Projects

Managing Projects

Executing Projects

Executing Projects

Organizing Projects

Organizing Projects

Leading Projects

Leading Projects

Teamwork

Teamwork

Managing Uncertainty

Managing Uncertainty

Collaborating with Stakeholders

Collaborating with Stakeholders

Learning and Innovating

Learning and Innovating

Complexifying Projects

Complexifying Projects

Ending Projects

Ending Projects

Additional materials

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Project Management

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November 2024 | 528 pages | Sage UK

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The second edition of this comprehensive textbook has been fully revised and updated, streamlining chapters and ensuring accessibility. Sustainability is now at the core of this textbook, showing students how projects can achieve success and create value for all stakeholders, ensuring projects for people, planet and prosperity. 

Key features of this edition include: 
Sustainability Development Goal icons throughout highlighting where topics related to sustainability are covered. 
New and expanded coverage of agile approaches, remote working, digitalisation, artificial intelligence and Industry 4.0. 
Over 100 case studies from across different industries and countries such as Spain, Denmark, Qatar, Kenya, South Africa, Australia and Brazil. 

With an array of pedagogical features and complemented by supplementary online resources, this textbook is essential reading for students and managers undertaking a project management course at either the undergraduate or postgraduate level.

Table Of Contents:

  • A Guide to Project Management
  • Valuing Projects
  • Defining Projects
  • Managing Projects
  • Executing Projects
  • Organizing Projects
  • Leading Projects
  • Teamwork
  • Managing Uncertainty
  • Collaborating with Stakeholders
  • Learning and Innovating
  • Complexifying Projects
  • Ending Projects

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Sustainability is at the heart of this textbook, clearly showing students how projects may be successful whilst creating value for stakeholders, all backed by a wide variety of case studies
Daniel Clarke Hagan, Atlantic Technological University

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