Project Management for Business Professionals

No longer restricted to the engineering industry, project management has at long last crossed over to mainstream business. Project <b><i>Management for Business Professionals</i></b> is the definitive reference on the essentials of contemporary project management. <p>Featured here are some of the foremost practitioners and researchers from academia, consulting, and private industry, sharing their various areas of project management expertise and providing a wide range of perspectives on everything from risk management to resource planning to ethics management.</p> <p>Focusing on both the technical and human sides of the field, this unique resource follows the main points of the "project management body of knowledge"-the certification standard of the Project Management Institute. The experts address the procedures and processes for planning and managing projects and explore project team/group dynamics, examining the interpersonal relations and the political and organizational considerations that can impact a project.</p>