by James P. Lewis
|
| List Price: | $55.00 |
| Amazon Price: | $34.65 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. |
| You Save: | $20.35 (37%) |
| Average Rating: |  |
| Lowest New Price: | $29.46 |
| Availablitiy: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
|
 |
|
Product Description
The classic project manager's handbook, with new chapters and insights that demystify the new PM tools and the PMP® exam Project Planning, Scheduling, and Control has been the standard guidebook for project managers for more than 15 years. Addressing the key issues you face every day, Jim Lewis's benchmark book brings the subject alive with accessible, nontechnical questions, step-by-step guidelines, and real-world examples and applications. This revised, updated, and expanded fourth edition provides an applications-oriented understanding of the issues you must confront and important tips for passing the Project Management Professional (PMP®) exam.
Customers who bought this item also bought
Average Customer Review:
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Replete with expertise and insights gleaned from experience., 2007-12-16
I read this book to augment my graduate-level Project Management course. I knew of the author's reputation as an instructor and a pioneer. The book lived up to my expectations.
Mr. Lewis covered the major aspects of managing a project very concisely and expertly. Here for example are the four reasons he gave for consensually estimating a task's duration:
1. No one person is "on the hook" for the estimate. If it turns out to be significantly off, no individual will get chastised for it.
2. Inexperienced team members will learn from the more experienced ones. Their ability to estimate improves.
3. Collectively, the team will be more likely to think of all the factors that may affect the time required to do the task. An individual is more likely to omit some of them. (This is an instance where more heads are better than one.)
4. I, as the PM, will receive a higher psychological commitment to the estimate than would be true if a single individual came up with it.
This is all fine and dandy but how can I use it?
It becomes another arrow in my quiver, so to speak. I can use it to clearly articulate the advantages of consensual estimating to anyone who challenges the idea. How many times do we run into a stakeholder who questions the need to "waste" time and effort coming up with a consensual estimate?
Bravo to Mr. Lewis for this wonderful book!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Great Book for top line overview of PM, 2007-05-12
Very well written book on Project Management. Easy to follow and well illustrated. The author also provides practical insight in to "how PM really works".
The book covers the entire PM process. I bought the book to learn more about scheduling and as it turns out scheduling is not the main focus of the book. Still a worthwhile read
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
 Good overview , 2007-02-13
The author does a good job of discussing the basic material in PM, in addition to spicing up the content with real-world examples and a nice, honest tone in monologue. A good addition to any PM's library.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
When you really want to know how to manage a project., 2006-04-18
When you look at the goals of this book they are things like develop a methodology that works, using common tools like PERT, CPM, setting up communications within the team; in essence the real things that make a project successful. This also means that you learn enough that if you want to take the PMP test, you have the background and understanding to pass it.
This is the fourth edition of a book initially published in 1991. As the author says, it is written for the practitioner rather than the classroom. There are a number of books on passing the PMP exam. Most of them teach to the questions on the test without going into what you are really trying to do as a project manager. This book is different. It covers what it really takes to manage a project, and it does so with words that are easy to understand with photographs that are meaningful to the text.
This is the best book I know of to use when you really want to understand what project management is all about.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Awesome Author and Book!, 2006-03-18
James P Lewis and his books are great for any project manager practitioner. It has a wealth of information and I have every one of his books. I studied from oen of his first books and passed the PMP exam as well as use his books to teach project management classes at a couple of universities. It is easy read, full of ideas and reference information for everyday use.
Price is accurate as of the date/time indicated. Prices and product availability are subject to change. Any price displayed on the Amazon website at the time of purchase will govern the sale of this product.
|
Store Categories
|