Neural Systems for Robotics

By Jack R. Meredith, Samuel J. Mantel Jr., Scott M. Shafer

Book Overview

The book is primarily intended for use as a college textbook for teaching project management at the advanced undergraduate or master's level. The text is appropriate for classes on the management of service, product, engineering projects, as well as information systems (IS). Thus, we have included some coverage of material concerning information systems and how IS projects differ from and are similar to regular business projects. The authors draw upon their personal experiences working with project managers and on the experience of friends and colleagues who have spent much of their working lives serving as project managers in the "real world." Thus, in contrast to the books that are about project management, this book teaches students how to do project management. Project Management: A Managerial Approach 5E addresses project management from a management perspective rather than a cookbook, special area treatise, or collection of loosely associated articles. It addresses the basic nature of managing all types of projects - public, business, engineering, information systems, and so on - as well as specific techniques and insights required to carry out this unique way of getting things done. It deals with the problems of selecting projects, initiating them, and operating and controlling them. It discusses the demands made on the project manager and the nature of the manager's interaction with the rest of the parent organization. It covers the difficult problems associated with conducting a project using people and organizations that represent different cultures and may be separated by considerable distances. It even covers the issues arising when the decision is made to terminate a project.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471073237
• ISBN13: 9780471073239
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: Academic Press
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.8" x 6.1"

Customer Reviews

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great practical book for workign SEs

we used this book in our undergraduate SE project management classes to prepare students to run their senior year project. the results were great. this book has just enough explanation of practical techniques, without going into the history and theory of management like the really thick books we use in the graduate courses. this book covers all the management topics a student or working SE would need to successfully run a project. just add experience and common sense and stir:) we let the students make their mistakes in their junior year class project while learning pm at the same time. they gain a good appreciation for what the book was telling them to do when they see the problems they had when they ignored (or didnt understand) what they should have done for planning and running a project. if you are a professional manager, executive, or going for a PMP cert then you will need to follow up with something more detailed. But for initially learning pm andor understanding it this book is excellent. you dont need to do a project if you read the book and do the exercises/questions. but usign the material on a real project does a great job of reinforcing the need for good pm. I wish that i had had somethign like this to read when i was starting out. it helps the technical folks understand what management is doing and why, which will help how they interact and will result in a better SE efforts for the overall project. this is a good introductory book for self study as well as a good textbook. it is worth getting.

Solid Project Management in theory and practice

I've taken 3 Project Management courses in my university graduate program and this was the book I used in the first course. Those in the other two courses should never have been published. I keep referring back to this one. It is solid, up-to-date, including theory and real-world examples.

An outstanding guide to the field.

This is an outstanding book. Whether you are new to project management or and old-hand, this book covers many topics in a business like and mature fashion.I especially recommned it to IT project managers, precisley because it ISNT focused on IT. It is very informative to see how project management is carried out in other industries.This book cant help but broaden your appreciation of this vitally important aspect of management.

DR. BRUNHILDA MARRERO

THERE IS A 4TH EDITION , YEAR 2000 USED BY US AT UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX IN PUERTO RICO. THE BOOK IS SO FRIENDLY BECAUSE IS FOCUSED TO MANAGERS IN ORDER TO MANAGE THE CYCLE OF LIFE OF A PROJECT. OTHER BOOKS ARE ECONOMIC OR ENGINEERING ORIENTED AND TOO DIFFICULT TO TAUGHT AND FOR LEARNING PURPOSES. THANKS A HAD THIS BOOK SO I COULD TRANSMIT TH EMESSAGE MORE CLEAR. DRA. MARRERO