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Description: The New Dynamic Project Management by Deborah S. Kezsbom, Katherine A. Edward The aim of this revised book is to explain how to complete projects on time and within budget. The techniques given here will provide managers and engineers with guidelines to planning and executing research and development efforts by focusing on essential aspects of successful project management. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Gain the competitive advantage with innovative management strategies for the new millennium! Business survival in todays global competitive economy requires companies to adapt quickly to rapidly changing markets, tighter schedules, diverse teams, and frequent technological advances. Change today is so pervasive that it has, paradoxically, become a constant. Based on their extensive and diverse project management experience within Fortune 500 companies and U.S. government agencies, the authors provide a practical and highly informative guide that can be applied easily to a variety of technical projects, regardless of industry! Revised and updated to reflect todays revolutionary changes and extraordinary business challenges, The New Dynamic Project Management: Winning Through the Competitive Advantage provides proven, practical management strategies to give your projects and your teams the competitive advantage. Back Cover Gain the competitive advantage with innovative management strategies for the new millennium! Business survival in todays global competitive economy requires companies to adapt quickly to rapidly changing markets, tighter schedules, diverse teams, and frequent technological advances. Change today is so pervasive that it has, paradoxically, become a constant. Based on their extensive and diverse project management experience within Fortune 500 companies and U.S. government agencies, the authors provide a practical and highly informative guide that can be applied easily to a variety of technical projects, regardless of industry! Revised and updated to reflect todays revolutionary changes and extraordinary business challenges, The New Dynamic Project Management: Winning Through the Competitive Advantage provides proven, practical management strategies to give your projects and your teams the competitive advantage. Flap The New Dynamic Project Management: Winning Through the Competitive Advantage Exceptional performance in todays competitive markets requires techniques that assure that a quality product is delivered to market in a timely and cost efficient manner. The new Dynamic Project Management: Winning Through the Competitive Advantage address the real-world challenges that confront todays managers and project teams. Whether you are involved in software development, information technology, pharmaceuticals, or the service industries, The New Dynamic Project Management outlines actual applied strategies that will give your projects the competitive advantage. Complete with application exercises, discussion questions, checklists, and business case studies, The New Dynamic Project Management will prove to be an excellent resource and informative guide for managers and non-managers alike. It provides clear, easy-to-follow techniques and guidelines that will help you to: Plan collectively as a team to assure attaining cost, schedule, and performance objectives Manage for quality despite accelerating product development and shorter sales cycles Develop and effectively manage all types of project teams, including those that are "virtual" Do business more effectively across company and international boundaries Apply communication strategies that improve both the quality of projects and the critical professional relationships that drive them Empower others so that they may better accomplish their goals and the organizations objectives Author Biography DEBORAH S. KEZSBOM, PhD, is President of MRA Management Resources. She has been a project management consultant, trainer, and facilitator for over two decades, working with clients such as AT&T, IBM, Motorola, Nokia, 3M, Philip Morris, Hoffmann-LaRoche, Warner Lambert, Zeneca, and various agencies within the U.S. Department of Defense. KATHERINE A. EDWARD is an educator and active program manager. She has managed projects of all sizes including commercial software application development, business process reengineering, corporate mergers and acquisitions, alliance partnerships, and multimedia production. Over the last two decades she has worked with Bell Laboratories, AT&T, Lucent Technologies, and Avaya Inc. She is currently a senior manager with Avaya and serves to promote excellence in software engineering and project management. Table of Contents Preface. Project Management: Introduction and Overview. Creating Organizations for Project Work. Business and Project Planning in the Global Marketplace. Planning and Development Methodologies. Charting the Course Using the Tools of Planning. Scheduling Project Activities. Optimizing the Schedule. Leadership in a Project Environment. Planning for and Utilizing Conflict. Tracking and Controlling the Project. Organizational and Interpersonal Project Communication: Spanning Across Boundaries. Quality in the Project Environment. Building and Maintaining Project Team Performance. Procurement and Contract Management. Project Management in the Information Age. Glossary. Index. Review "...addresses the project challenges that have emerged, particularly in the cyber-environment , since the 1989 edition..." (Reference & Research Book News, November 2001) Long Description Gain the competitive advantage with innovative management strategies for the new millennium! Business survival in todays global competitive economy requires companies to adapt quickly to rapidly changing markets, tighter schedules, diverse teams, and frequent technological advances. Change today is so pervasive that it has, paradoxically, become a constant. Based on their extensive and diverse project management experience within Fortune 500 companies and U.S. government agencies, the authors provide a practical and highly informative guide that can be applied easily to a variety of technical projects, regardless of industry! Revised and updated to reflect todays revolutionary changes and extraordinary business challenges, The New Dynamic Project Management: Winning Through the Competitive Advantage provides proven, practical management strategies to give your projects and your teams the competitive advantage. Review Text "...addresses the project challenges that have emerged, particularly in the cyber-environment , since the 1989 edition..." (Reference & Research Book News, November 2001) Review Quote "...addresses the project challenges that have emerged, particularly in the cyber-environment , since the 1989 edition..." (Reference & Research Book News, November 2001) Promotional "Headline" "...addresses the project challenges that have emerged, particularly in the cyber-environment , since the 1989 edition..." (Reference & Research Book News, November 2001) Feature Explores all phases of project management, with an emphasis on the shorter product development and sales life cycles required in the high-tech industries. Details competitive business planning through value analysis and quality engineering. Discusses how to meet project goals and financial objectives imposed by the demanding and highly competitive global market. Addresses the need to integrate organizations through the use of multidisciplinary project teams. Discusses how to deal with customers, partners, suppliers, and other organizational stakeholders. Covers doing business with government, both domestic and foreign. Structure is based on the certification requirements of the international Project Management Institute, allowing this volume to be used to prepare for the IPMI exam. Details ISBN0471254940 Author Katherine A. Edward Language English Edition 2nd ISBN-10 0471254940 ISBN-13 9780471254942 Media Book Format Hardcover DEWEY 658.404 Illustrations Yes Year 2001 Subtitle Winning Through the Competitive Advantage Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Replaces 9780471852483 Pages 596 Short Title NEW DYNAMIC PROJECT MGMT 2/E DOI 10.1604/9780471254942 UK Release Date 2001-02-09 AU Release Date 2001-02-09 NZ Release Date 2001-02-09 US Release Date 2001-02-09 Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc Edition Description 2nd edition Publication Date 2001-02-09 Imprint Wiley-Interscience Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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