Project management : a systems approach to planning, scheduling, and controlling

 Content: Overview --
 Project management growth : concepts and definitions --
 Organizational structures --
 Organizing and staffing the project office and team --
 Management functions --
 Management of your time and stress --
 Conflicts --
 Special topics --
 The variables for success --
 Working with executives --
 Planning --
 Network scheduling techniques --
 Project graphics --
 Pricing and estimating --
 Cost control --
 Trade-off analysis in a project environment --
 Risk management --
 Learning curves --
 Contract management --
 Quality management --
 Modern developments in project management --
 The business of scope changes --
 The project office --
 Managing crisis projects --
 The rise, fall, and resurrection of Iridium : a project management perspective --
 Appendix A. Solutions to the project management conflict exercise --
 Appendix B. Solution to leadership exercise --
 Appendix C. Dorale Products case studies --
 Appendix D. Solution to the Dorale Products case studies answers --
 Appendix E. Crosslisting of PMBOK® to the text.