Practical, hands-on approach, with use of Microsoft Project software integrated throughout. 120-day evaluation version of Microsoft Project packaged with book. Clear and accessible writing style.
Build real–world project management skills with a brief, hands–on text! Following up on the extraordinary success of Project Management, 4/E Mantel and Meredith have teamed up once again, along with Scott Shafer and Margaret Sutton, to create Project Management in Practice– A Brief, Hands–on Text that shows how to do project management.
With it streamlined coverage and applied approach, the text offers a sturdy foundation of fundamental concepts and real–world project management skills. The authors clearly explain how to apply proven project management tools and techniques at each stage in a project life–cycle from selecting and initiating projects, to scheduling and budgeting, to project termination.
FEATURES
- Concise, hands–on approach to project management
- A CD–ROM packaged with this text containing a 120–day trial version of Microsoft® project 2000, in addition to Crystal Ball® 2000
- An appendix devoted to the use of Crystal Ball® 2000 with applications to project selection, budgeting, scheduling, and resource allocation
- Highly detailed examples
- Extensive review questions and exercises at the end of each chapter
- Emphasis on using computers, with numerous exercises that utilize project management software