The Wiley Guide to Managing Projects

This handbook pulls together the fundamentals of project management and presents them along side the other business systems and procedures effected by project management. The book is the most comprehensive reference resource for all business managers. It allows readers to understand how project management fits into their organization, and helps them apply this knowledge on the job. "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."--BOOK JACKET. This comprehensive resource presents the fundamentals of project management and ties them to strategic business systems and procedures. This insightful guide demonstrates how project management fits into an organization and offers helpful advice on applying this knowledge on the job Underlying control theory in the management sciences is the concept of the system.