The Wiley guide to managing projects

"The Wiley Guide to Managing Projects presents business and engineering managers with fundamental concepts, techniques, and practices they need to identify how project management fits into their organizations and how to successfully apply this knowledge on the job. Starting at an introductory level, this work explains project management fundamentals along with the core areas of project planning, risk, value, and control. The Wiley Guide to Managing Projects goes well beyond other project management guides through extensive coverage of program and portfolio management, project procurement, learning and knowledge management, and technology management." "The Wiley Guide to Managing Projects is a comprehensive, authoritative "owner's manual" to managing projects for corporate managers, program and project managers, team members, consultants, academics, and students."--Jacket.

Section I : Key aspects of project management -- 1. Project control / Peter Harpum -- 2. Qualitative and quantitative risk management / Stephen J. Simister -- 3. Project management structures / Erik Larson -- 4. An overview of behavioral issues in project management / Dennis P. Slevin and Jeffrey K. Pinto -- Section II. The Management of projects -- Section II. I : Strategy, portfolio and program management -- 5. Project success / Terry Cooke-Davies -- 6. Management of the project-oriented company / Roland Gareis -- 7. Strategic business management through multiple projects / Karlos A. Artto & Perttu H. Dietrich -- 8. Moving from corporate strategy to project strategy / Ashley Jamieson and Peter W.G. Morris -- 9. Strategic management : the project linkages / David I. Cleland -- 10. Models of project orientation in multi-project organizations / Joseph Lampel and Pushkar. P. Jha -- 11. Project portfolio selection and management / Norm Archer and Fereidoun Ghasemzadeh -- 12. Program management : a strategic decision management process / Michel Thiry -- 13. Modeling of large projects / Ali Jaafari -- 14. Managing project stakeholders / Graham M Winch -- 15. The financing of projects /…