Effective Project Management: Traditional, Agile, Extreme, Hybrid - Paperback

by Robert K. Wysocki (Author)

The popular guide to the project management body of knowledge, now fully updated

Now in its eighth edition, this comprehensive guide to project management has long been considered the standard for both professionals and academics, with nearly 40,000 copies sold in the last three editions! Well-known expert Robert Wysocki has added four chapters of new content based on instructor feedback, enhancing the coverage of best-of-breed methods and tools for ensuring project management success.

With enriched case studies, accompanying exercises and solutions on the companion website, and PowerPoint slides for all figures and tables, the book is ideal for instructors and students as well as active project managers.

• Serves as a comprehensive guide to project management for both educators and project management professionals
• Updated to cover the new PMBOK(R) Sixth Edition

• Examines traditional, agile, and extreme project management techniques; the Enterprise Project Management Model; and Kanban and Scrumban methodologies
• Includes a companion website with exercises and solutions and well as PowerPoint slides for all the figures and tables used
• Written by well-known project management expert Robert Wysocki

Effective Project Management, Eighth Edition remains the comprehensive resource for project management practitioners, instructors, and students.

(PMBOK is a registered mark of the Project Management Institute, Inc.)

Back Jacket

Learn to use the best-of-breed methods and tools for success in any project.

There are so many things that can fail on a project. It can be daunting. Failure to complete on time. Failure to stay under budget. Many projects fail to deliver a viable product that satisfies the needs of the customer. These and a multitude of other failures are usually the result of poor project management. Although there are many methods for managing projects, most are inadequately understood. Project managers often fail to choose the appropriate management method for a given project. Sometimes they choose the correct method but fail to use it properly. Fortunately, there is a resource that will teach you to use the most up-to-date tools and methods for project management.

Effective Project Management provides updated and expanded coverage of all major project management methods, including Traditional, Agile, and Extreme. This market-leading guide offers step-by-step instructions, in-depth case studies, flowcharts, figure and tables, and more, in a single, easy-to-understand volume.

Author Robert K. Wysocki's winning approach to project management has been helping practitioners and students alike for over two decades. He presents the pros and cons of each method and shows readers how to select and use best-of-breed project management tools and templates for each management task. Now in its eighth edition, this popular guide includes four chapters of new material and a streamlined content structure that incorporates feedback from instructors and students of previous editions.

Highlights of the new edition include:

• Coverage of the newly released PMBOK^(R) Sixth Edition body of knowledge
• New chapters on strategic project management, collaborative project teams, hybrid project management framework, and VUCA in the digital world
• Detailed coverage of Kanban and Scrumban methodologies
• Learn Agile Project Management
• Expansion of the Enterprise PSO to support EPMM
• Companion website that contains new exercises and solutions, PowerPoint lecture slides, enhanced case studies, and discussion questions

Author Biography

Robert K. Wysocki is a project management consultant, trainer, training developer, and author. He has published numerous books and articles on both project and information systems management. His books have been adopted at over 300 colleges and universities worldwide, as well as by training organizations, companies, and practicing professionals. He began his professional life as a systems consultant with a BA in Mathematics and an MS and PHD in Mathematical Statistics.