Project management : achieving competitive advantage

Authorized adaptation, for use outside the United States and Canada, from the United States 4th edition: ISBN 9780133798074.
Previous edition: 2012.
First edition: Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson/Prentice Hall, ©2007.

Includes index

Chapter 1 Introduction: Why Project Management?â Development Projects in Lagos, Nigeria"Throwing Good Money after Bad": The BBC's Digital Media InitiativeChapter 2 The Organizational Context: Strategy, Structure, and Cultureâ Tesla's $5 Billion GambleElectronic Arts and the Power of Strong Culture in Design TeamsChapter 3 Project Selection and Portfolio Managementâ Project Selection Procedures: A Cross-Industry SamplerChapter 4 Leadership and the Project Managerâ Leading by Example for the London Olympics - Sir John ArmittDr. E. Sreedharan, India's Project Management GuruChapter 5 Scope Managementâ "We look like fools." - Oregon's Failed Rollout of their Obamacare WebsiteBoeing's Virtual FenceCalifornia's High-Speed Rail Project - What's the Latest News?The Expeditionary Fighting VehicleChapter 6 Project Team Building, Conflict, and Negotiationâ Engineers Without Borders: Project Teams Impacting LivesChapter 7 Risk Managementâ The Building that Melted CarsBank of America Completely Misjudges its CustomersCollapse of Shanghai Apartment BuildingThe Spanish Navy pays nearly $3 billion for a Submarine that will sink like a StoneChapter 8 Cost Estimation and Budgetingâ Sochi Olympics - What's the Cost of National Prestige?The Hidden Costs of Infrastructure Projects - The Case of Building DamsChapter 9 Project Scheduling: Networks, Duration Estimation, and Critical Pathâ After 20 Years and More than $50 billion, Oil is no closer to the Surface: The Caspian Kashagan ProjectChapter 10 Project Scheduling: Lagging, Crashing, and Activity Networksâ Enlarging the Panama CanalChapter 11 Critical Chain Project Schedulingâ Developing Projects through Kickstarter - Do Delivery Dates Mean Anything?Eli Lilly Pharmaceutical's Commitment to Critical Chain Project SchedulingChapter 12 Resource Managementâ Hong Kong Connects to the World's Longest Natural Gas PipelineChapter 13 Project Evaluation and Controlâ New York City's CityTime ProjectBoeing's 787 Dreamliner: Failure to Launch (with update)Earned Value Management at Northrop GrummanChapter 14 Project Closeout and Terminationâ Duke Energy and its Cancelled Levy County Nuclear Power PlantAftermath of a "Feeding Frenzy" - Dubai and Cancelled Construction ProjectsNew Jersey Kills Hudson River Tunnel ProjectThe Navy Scraps Development of Its Showpiece Warship - Until the Next Bad IdeaAppendix: Tutorial for MicroSoft (R) Project 2013