The second edition of this comprehensive textbook has been fully revised and updated, streamlining chapters and ensuring accessibility. Sustainability is now at the core of this textbook, showing students how projects can achieve success and create value for all stakeholders, ensuring projects for people, planet and prosperity.
Key features of this edition include:
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Sustainability Development Goal icons throughout highlighting where topics related to sustainability are covered.
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New and expanded coverage of agile approaches, remote working, digitalisation, artificial intelligence and Industry 4.0.
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Over 100 case studies from across different industries and countries such as Spain, Denmark, Qatar, Kenya, South Africa, Australia and Brazil.
With an array of pedagogical features and complemented by supplementary online resources, this textbook is essential reading for students and managers undertaking a project management course at either the undergraduate or postgraduate level.
Table of Content
A Guide to Project Management
Valuing Projects
Defining Projects
Managing Projects
Executing Projects
Organizing Projects
Leading Projects
Teamwork
Managing Uncertainty
Collaborating with Stakeholders
Learning and Innovating
Complexifying Projects
Ending Projects
About the author
Anne Live Vaagaasar, Ph D., is Associate Professor in Management at BI Norwegian Business School. She has published widely within organizational science, in particular on temporary organizing. Here key interests are issues of organizing, relationship development, temporality, learning and innovating – always in the context of temporary organizations. She has published three books and numerous articles on these topics and won several international research awards. She is responsible for the renowned executive programs in Project Management at BI and teaches and gives lectures on a wide range of topics within the subject area.
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