An update to a best-selling project management book, this includes the latest information on the most important issues within the field. Russell Archibald, a seasoned project manager with international experience in a variety of industries, discusses developments within the field such as the Internet, the maturing of the project management role within organizations, the drive to make more powerful, integrated project management software applications, and the increasing use of formalized risk analysis and tracking methods. These developments add to the need for an international understanding and use, within a single enterprise, project portfolio or joint venture project or program, of similar, compatible planning, risk analysis and mitigation, scheduling, monitoring, controlling and reporting. The most important objective in gaining this understanding is to establish and to maintain the commonality necessary to integrate international joint ventures.
Book Details:
- Author: Russell D. Archibald
- ISBN: 9780470297926
- Year Published: 2003
- Pages: 396
- BISAC: BUS063000, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS/Strategic Planning
About the Book and Topic:
An update to a best-selling project management book, this includes the latest information on the most important issues within the field. Russell Archibald, a seasoned project manager with international experience in a variety of industries, discusses developments within the field such as the Internet, the maturing of the project management role within organizations, the drive to make more powerful, integrated project management software applications, and the increasing use of formalized risk analysis and tracking methods. These developments add to the need for an international understanding and use, within a single enterprise, project portfolio or joint venture project or program, of similar, compatible planning, risk analysis and mitigation, scheduling, monitoring, controlling and reporting. The most important objective in gaining this understanding is to establish and to maintain the commonality necessary to integrate international joint ventures.
This revision of a strong book provides a wealth of information from an industry expert.
A well-known author within the field: Russell Archibald is widely known in the project management field. He helped to found the Project Management Institute, and he is a former principal with Integrated Project Systems, a consulting firm that specializes in process and system implementation and training in project management for high-tech corporations and agencies. * The definitive book on managing high-tech initiatives: This book fulfills a long-standing need for a comprehensive, practical and unified description of the business of managing complex programs and projects. It provides detailed coverage of all aspects of complex project management, with emphasis on those involving advanced technology.
About the Author
RUSSELL D. ARCHIBALD, PMP, Fellow PMI and APM/IPMA, MSc, has held engineering and executive positions in the defense/aerospace, refinery construction and operation, automotive manufacturing, and telecommunications industries. Since 1982, he has consulted in project management to companies and agencies in twelve countries on four continents, and has taught project management principles and practices to thousands of managers and specialists around the world. He is an original founding trustee and member of the Project Management Institute.