Visualizing Project Management: Models and Frameworks for Mastering Complex Systems

By Howard Cotterman, Kevin Forsberg, Hal Mooz

Book Overview

THE PROJECT MANAGEMENT CLASSIC-REVISED AND EXPANDED

Now Includes Downloadable Forms and Worksheets

Projects are becoming the heart of business. This comprehensive revision of the bestselling guide to project management explains the processes, practices, and management techniques you need to implement a successful project culture within your team and enterprise. Visualizing Project Management simplifies the challenge of managing complex projects with powerful, visual models that have been adopted by more than 100 leading government and private organizations.

In this new Third Edition, the authors-leading thinkers and practitioners in the field-keep you on the cutting edge with a sophisticated approach that integrates project management, systems engineering, and process improvement. This advanced content can help take your career and your organization well beyond the fundamentals.

New, downloadable forms, templates, and worksheets make it easy to implement powerful project techniques and tools.

Includes references to the Project Management Institute Body of Knowledge and the INCOSE Handbook to help you pass:

The Project Management Professional Certification Exam The INCOSE Systems Engineer Certification Exam (CSEP)

"I recommend this book to all those who aspire to project management [and] those who must supervise it."
--Norman R. Augustine, former chairman and CEO Lockheed Martin Corporation

"The importance of this excellent book, able to encompass these two key disciplines [systems engineering and project management], cannot be overemphasized."
--Heinz Stoewer, President, INCOSE

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471648485
• ISBN13: 9780471648482
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 2.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.8" x 9.5"

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Good Textbook

This book was assigned as THE textbook for my graduate Level Project Management class. It is a good read, great at presenting its ideas, and easy to understand. It unfortunately talks only of a couple of project management techniques vaguely and what examples are included are very short with little or no good background. I'd sell this book as a good starter for those looking to gain understanding in PM, but with the understanding...

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Visualizing Project Management 3rd Edition

Visualizing Project Management, 3rd Edition is an excellent read! Throughout my career I have led or have been part of projects whereby risk management was defined as risk statusing. Real risk identification and their impacts to projects were ignored. In Visualizing Project Management 3rd Edition, the book focuses on the technical aspects of projects which is critical to project succcess and has a whole chapter dedicated to...

Advancing the industry standard

I've followed the maturation of the VPM books now up to version 3 and continue to be impressed by the straight forward approach to project management the authors use. The dual V takes the industry standard to a thrid dimension and truly captures systems of systems development. A must read for any technical project manager.