Project Management in Practice

By Scott M. ShaferSamuel J. Mantel Jr.Jack R. Meredith, et al.

Book Overview

The updated 6th Edition of Project Management in Practice provides streamlined coverage with an applied approach, focusing on the essentials of project management. This concise, hands-on text is ideal for a one semester project management course, or as a module on project management. This textbook is organized around the project management life cycle, and provides students with essential project management concepts while addressing an important area of industry growth: the use of projects to achieve the strategic goals of organizations.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1118674669
• ISBN13: 9781118674666
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Length: 319 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.9" x 9.9"

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Outstanding Reference and Companion to the PMBOK

Using this book as a study guide, it is possible to pass the PMP exam. Using only Project Management in Practice and the PMBOK to study from, I easily passed the PMP exam the first time without joining one of the intensive prep classes. Nearly all the questions on the exam were covered in this book. All the PMI required areas of study are covered; Organization, Planning, Budgeting, Scheduling, Resourcing, Monitoring and Controlling,...