Know how to respond when things don's fall into place.

With Meredith and Mantel's Sixth Edition, you'll not only learn how to select, initiate, operate, and control all types of projects; you'll also learn how to manage risks and uncertainties. Written from a managerial perspective, the text equips you with the quantutative skills, knowledge of organizational issues, and insights into human behavior that you need to do project management effectively.

Updated and revised, this edition features current coverage of topics such as:
- Risk management
- Lifecycle costing
- Real options
- Orgazizational procress assets
- Non-technical project terminations
- The phase/quality-gate process
- Requirements formulation analysis

Chapter 1 Project Management in Our Contemporary Society
Chapter 2 Implementing Strategy through Projects
Chapter 3 Managing Projects: The Role of the PM
Chapter 4 Organizing Projects
Chapter 5 The Process of Planning Projects
Chapter 6 Resolving Conflicts Through Negotiation
Chapter 7 Cost Estimation and the Budgeting Process
Chapter 8 The Function of Scheduling: Creating Timetables
Chapter 9 Allocating Resourcs
Chapter 10 Managing Projects through Information Systems
,etc.