Reflects the collaboration and knowledge of working project managers, providing the fundamentals of project management as they apply to a wide range of projects. This internationally recognized standard provides the essential tools to practice project management and deliver organizational results. Updates include: Addition of a 10th Knowledge Area: Project Stakeholder Management; refined project data information and information flow; and the addition of four new planning processes: Plan Scope Management, Plan Schedule Management, Plan Cost Management and Plan Stakeholder Management.

Carrying out a project as planned is not a guarantee for success. Projects may fail because project management does not take the requirements, wishes and concerns of stakeholders sufficiently into account. Projects can only be successful through contributions from stakeholders. And it is the stakeholders that evaluate whether they find the project successful - an evaluation based on criteria that go beyond receiving the project deliverables. More often than not, the criteria are implicit and change during the project course. This is an enormous challenge for project managers. The route to better projects, say Pernille Eskerod and Anna Lund Jepsen, lies in finding ways to improve project stakeholder management. To manage stakeholders effectively, you need to know your stakeholders, their behaviours and attitudes towards the project. The authors give guidance on how to adopt an analytical and structured approach; how to document, store and retrieve your knowledge; how to plan your stakeholder interactions in advance; and how to make your plans explicit, at the very least internally. A well-conceived plan can prevent you from being carried away in the 'heat of the moment' and help you spend your limited resources for stakeholder management in the best way. To make this plan, you need to agree on the objectives of your stakeholder strategy and ways to achieve them. Project Stakeholder Management offers tactics and tools founded on established marketing communications theory as well as strategic management for doing just that. This book is part of Gower's Fundamentals of Project Management Series.

Welcome to the new edition of Project Management: Integrating Strategy, Operations and Change. This re-worked and fully updated text explores not only the principles, processes and practice of project management, but also the myriad of challenges and opportunities created in trying to balance both strategic initiatives and operational realities within organizations. Project Management: Integrating Strategy, Operations and Change continues the learning journey for us all in how we plan and manage our projects: be they big or small, easy or complex, single or multiple, single site or co-location. This new edition aligns with the fifth edition of the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®) and with industry requirements, international best practice, educational curriculums and qualifications, as well as incorporating aspects of other well-known international project management methodologies. It examines both project theory and practice across a variety of contexts, industry sectors and qualification levels. It has been designed and written around a single, fundamental goal-to enable and support the reader's learning as the reader continues to build, revise and integrate their own unique project management body of knowledge that combines personal research, trial and error and lessons learned.

This pocket guide is designed to help IT project managers to succeed, and is based on the author's years of experience in IT project management. The guide's step-by-step approach will enable those new to IT project management, or intending to make a career in this field, to master the essential skills. For seasoned professionals, the pocket guide offers an invaluable concise reference guide.

PMI's flagship publication has been updated to reflect the latest good practices in project management. New to the Sixth Edition, each knowledge area will contain a section entitled Approaches for Agile, Iterative and Adaptive Environments, describing how these practices integrate in project settings. It will also contain more emphasis on strategic and business knowledge -- including discussion of project management business documents -- and information on the PMI Talent Triangle" and the essential skills for success in todayss market.

This book offers a focused and concise summary of 50 challenges facing today's IT project manager. The authors draw on years of practical experience (rather than classroom theory) to outline these challenges and offer useful tips and advice on how to deal with them.