Effective project management traditional, agile, extreme

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Table of Contents
Preface xxix
Introduction xxxi
Part I Understanding the Project Management Landscape 1
1 What Is a Project? 3
2 What Is Project Management? 25
3 What Are the Project Management Process Groups? 65
Part II Traditional Project Management 101
4 How to Scope a TPM Project 103
5 How to Plan a TPM Project 141
6 How to Launch a TPM Project 217
7 How to Monitor & Control a TPM Project 267
8 How to Close a TPM Project 299
Part III Complex Project Management 309
9 Complexity and Uncertainty in the Project Management Landscape 311
10 Agile Project Management 327
11 Extreme Project Management 351
12 Comparing Linear, Incremental, Iterative, Adaptive, and Extreme PMLC Models 359
Part IV Managing the Realities of Projects 445
13 Prevention and Intervention Strategies for Distressed Projects 447
14 Organizing Multiple Team Projects 477
15 Establishing and Maturing a Project Support Office 509
16 Establishing and Managing a Continuous Process Improvement Program 555
Part V End State: Maturing to an Enterprise-Level Project Management Model 591
17 Establishing a Project Portfolio Management Process 593
18 A Practical Project-Based Model of the Enterprise 645
Appendix A Glossary of Acronyms 683
Appendix B What’s on the Website? 689
Appendix C Bibliography 691
Index 701

Now in its seventh edition, this comprehensive guide to project management has long been considered the standard for both professionals and academics. With more than 32,000 copies sold in the last three editions, it has now been fully updated to cover the new PMBOK® Guide. Well-known expert Robert Wysocki has added more than 100 pages of new content based on instructor feedback, enhancing the coverage of best-of-breed methods and tools for ensuring project management success.

With enriched case studies, accompanying exercises and solutions on the companion website, and PowerPoint slides for all figures and tables, the book is ideal for instructors and students as well as active project managers.

Serves as a comprehensive guide to project management for both educators and project management professionals
Completely updated to cover the new PMBOK® Guide
Examines traditional, agile, and extreme project management techniques; the Enterprise Project Management Model; and Kanban and Scrumban methodologies
Includes a companion website with exercises and solutions and well as PowerPoint slides for all the figures and tables used
Written by well-known project management expert Robert Wysocki
Effective Project Management, Seventh Edition remains the compreh