Modern Project Management: Successfully Integrating Project Management Knowledge Areas and Processes

This guide provides a modern, integrated treatment of all the essential methods of project management - and comes with a complete project management software on accompanying CD-ROM. a This work covers all the tools, including several for how to measure "productivity". The work presents an "integrated" approach that balances theory, methods, psychology and practice, and aims to help even novice project managers achieve superior results. Included on the CD-ROM is an automated project management software programme called "Modern Manager". More than just a scheduler, this flexible programme supplies tools, metrics and displays designed to help users plan, estimate, monitor and control projects. The book covers essential PM methods (with automated tools for performing them), including: productivity measurement, change control, variance tracking, and scientific forecasting.