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Wiley Pathways Project Management, 1st Edition

Stanley E. Portny, Samuel J. Mantel, Jr., Jack R. Meredith, Scott M. Shafer, Margaret M. Sutton with Brian E. Kramer

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This new text provides students with clear step-by-step techniques for creating, developing, and evaluating essential project management tools. Readers will learn concepts and skills using project plans, work breakdown structures, budgets, network diagrams, resource allocations, and project evaluations.

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Defining Project Management Today

Chapter 2: The Project: Defining Needs and Identifying Solutions

Chapter 3: Project Organizations

Chapter 4: The Project Plan

Chapter 5: The Project Budget.

Chapter 6: Defining the Schedule

Chapter 7: Estimating and Allocating Resources

Chapter 8: Being an Effective Project Manager

Chapter 9: Involving the Right People in Your Project.

Chapter 10: Managing Project Teams

Chapter 11: Tracking Progress and Maintaining Control

Chapter 12: Communicating and Documenting Progress

Chapter 13: Managing Risk

Chapter 14: Evaluating and Ending the Project

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Pre-test: Pre-reading assessment tool in multiple-choice format. Introduces chapter material and helps students get an idea of what they know and where they need to focus their efforts.
What You ll Learn in this Chapter and After Studying this Chapter: Presents the subject matter that the student will learn and emphasizes capabilities and skills students will build.
Goals and Outcomes. These lists identify specific student capabilities that will result from reading the chapter. They help the student set expectations and show them what to reach for.
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Introduction. This section orients the student by introducing the chapter and explaining its importance. Short summaries of chapter sections preview the topics to follow.
Chapters. Each chapter is broken down into an average of four or five concise sections. A short assessment is provided at the end of each section.
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Self-Check: Short answer questions at the end of the chapter let students know if they ve mastered the content. Each question set includes a link to a section of the pre-test for further review.
Summary: Each chapter concludes with a summary paragraph that captures and reviews the major concepts in the chapter and links back to the What you ll learn list.
Key Terms and Glossary: A convenient list of all terms that appear in boldfaced throughout the chapter are listed at the end of the chapter and in the glossary.
Summary Questions help students summarize the chapter s main points by asking a series of multiple choice and true/false questions that emphasize how well they understand the concepts and content.
Review Questions in short answer format review the major points in each chapter. It encourages critical thinking skills while reinforcing and confirming that the concepts and content are understood.
Applying this Chapter Questions drive home key ideas by asking students to combine and apply chapter concepts to new, real-life situations and scenarios.
You Try It! Questions encourage students to draw conclusions using chapter material applied to real-world situations, which promotes both mastery of the content and independent learning.
Post-test should be taken after students have completed the chapter. It includes all of the questions in the pre-test, so that students can see how their learning has progressed and improved.