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Preject Management for Business Professionals

Preject Management for Business Professionals: A Comprehensive Guide is an anthology of chapters written by a cadre of recognized project management practitioners. It is designed to provide need-to-know information for the business professional on a topic that is seeping into the broader business community, the topic of project management.

For many years, the engineering and construction industries have been recognized for using the project management discipline to plan, organize, and manage their jobs. The spectrum of the project management discipline has broadened and expanded with each ongoing year. What was once called project management is now evolving into "the managing of projects." What was a part-time job carried out by a technician is now a full-time job fulfilled by a person possessing a host of project management competencies. What was once accomplished on an ad hoc basis is now being performed by applying structured project management methodologies and processes.

The organizations that employ you, the reader, are evolving into project-driven organizations which conduct much if not all of their business in a project mode. Projects are those endeavors with a discrete beginning and end, producing a discrete deliverable. Various skilled personnel carry out this unique process in order to meet an expected time frame, resource utilization, and specified cost. Considering this definition, it is obvious why construction and engineering would employ the discipline of project management.

If you think about it, you'll recognize that many other industries also utilize project management. For example, the development of a new drug in the pharmaceutical industry is a project. So is the release to the marketplace of a new piece of high-technology hardware or software. In the service industry, a rollout of a new checking account service, a modification to an airline reservations system, or a response to new governmental insurance regulations are also projects.

Project management has become a driving, irreplaceable, here-to-stay discipline within organizations. It is not now nor will it ever be a "flavor of the month." Project management is a way of doing business that will continue to be inculcated and ingrained into each of our organizations.

The methods, systems, and processes related to project management are not cut and dried. They need to be dynamic, scalable, and repeatable. But more important, they need to take every possible creative twist to make them amenable to the people who are required to use them day in and day out.

Project Management for Business Professionals is designed for the reader who is searching for advanced material that deals with a wide spectrum of business-oriented subject matter as it relates to project management. This text addresses the practical application of the project management discipline in today's business world. It provides a wide range of perspectives on the discipline by allowing 33 subject matter experts to share their unique areas of expertise all under one cover.

These subject matter experts were carefully chosen because of their prestige and positions within the project management discipline. Not only are these authors seasoned practitioners of the discipline of project management, but they have over the years added value to the growth and evolution of project management in the business community. These 33 authors have been drawn from the three following areas:

1. Academia. This group of authors consists of professors and educators who not only teach the discipline but also practice it in their consultations with various clients.

2. Suppliers of training, consulting, and software. Here we have found prominent consultants, authors, and software creators.

3. Private industry. These professionals manage significant projects and/or manage project offices within their organizations.

Project Management for Business Professionals is designed around a socio-technical model. The role of the project manager has become not only one of coordinating the tangible data around the project but also one of becoming proficient at dealing with the intangible, human behavioral condi--tion as it relates to the discipline of project management. The book therefore has been divided into two parts, The Technical Track and The Human Dimensions Track. Let me explain the logic flow of the book.

594 pages