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This practice-oriented handbook presents practitioners and students with a comprehensive overview of the essential knowledge and current best practices in project management. It includes the most up-to-date thinking in the discipline, describing recent developments in a way that practitioners can immediately use in their work.
The Handbook of Project Management was the first "APM Body of Knowledge Approved" title for the Association for Project Management. Over the course of six editions, The Handbook of Project Management has become the definitive desk reference for project management practitioners. The team of expert contributors, selected to introduce the reader to the knowledge and skills required to manage projects, includes many of the most experienced and highly regarded international writers and practitioners. The book is divided into six parts: Projects; Performance; Process; People; Portfolio; and Perspectives. Including over 25 completely new chapters, this sixth edition provides a fully up-to-date encyclopaedia for the discipline and profession of project management.
The book will be of use to all project management practitioners, from those starting out in the profession to people with advanced experience. It is also highly relevant to students, with earlier editions being used as a set or recommended text on Masters' courses in project management.
List of contents
1. A handbook for project management practitioners Part I: Projects 2. Projects and their management 3. Linking strategy and projects through strategic initiatives 4. Project success 5. Managing project complexity 6. Auditing projects and programs Part II: Performance 7. Measuring project performance 8. Managing requirements, scope and configuration 9. Project organization 10. Project owner organizations 11. Managing business case and benefits realization 12. Managing value in projects 13. Managing integrated project delivery 14. Data analytics in managing projects 15. Managing Digital Projects Infrastructure 16. Managing project risk 17. Managing project crisis 18. Sustainable project management Part III: Process 19. Managing the process 20. Feasibility and planning 21. Design thinking in projects 22. Predictive, adaptive and hybrid project approaches 23. Scenario planning Part IV: People 24. The project manager 25. The project sponsor 26. The project team 27. Engaging project stakeholders 28. Project leadership model 29. Balanced leadership 30. Motivation of young project professionals 31. Managing diversity 32. Behavioral bias 33. Ethics Part V: Portfolio 34. Managing programs 35. Managing project portfolios 36. Managing project sequences 37. Machine learning in project portfolio selection 38. Organizational project management 39. The project-oriented organization 40. The governance of projects 41. The PMO Part VI: Perspectives 42. Projectification of society 43. Quality of life in smart cities 44. A reflection
About the author
Martina Huemann is a Professor for Major Infrastructure Delivery at BSSC, University College London and Professor at WU Vienna. Martina is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Project Management and Founding Editor-in-Chief of Project Leadership and Society. As co-founder of enable2change, she believes in co-creation between practitioners, policy makers, and scholars.
Rodney Turner is a Visiting Professor at the University of Leeds. He is the author or editor of 18 books and editor of the International Journal of Project Management from 1993 to 2018. His research covers governance, stakeholder experience, and megaproject management. In 2004, he received a research achievement award from PMI and in 2012 from IPMA.
Summary
This practice-oriented handbook presents practitioners and students with a comprehensive overview of the current best practice in project management. It includes the most up-to-date thinking in the discipline, describing recent developments in a way that practitioners can immediately use in their work.
