This new edition of an award-winning risk management classic is more actionable than ever with new chapters on facilitating risk conversations and running a risk workshop. Risk isn't just about threat; it's also about opportunity. You have to be ready to take advantage of the most unexpected events—good or bad—with any project you are managing. But how does this work in practice? The Active Threat and Opportunity Management (ATOM) methodology offers a simple, scalable risk process that applies to all projects in all industries and business sectors. For each process step, the authors offer practical advice, hints, and tips on how to get the most out of the risk management process. Risk management really can work in practice. This Project Management Institute award-winning methodology is already used by top corporations. Whether you are someone with no prior knowledge of risk management or someone who simply needs guidance on how to apply risk management successfully, this book will help you tackle the ups and downs of this unpredictable world.

Environmental remediation has brought significant improvements to industrial sites and surrounding communities throughout the nation. It's also become notorious for high budget overruns and frequent schedule delays, as environmental remediation's technological aspects become subject to political, managerial and economic concerns. Modern Project Management (MPM) Processes offer a new framework for remediation programs, geared to increased efficiency and precise troubleshooting. Environmental consultant and certified project management professional (PMP) Timothy J. Havranek has helped various companies put MPM into practice: now, he brings his techniques to the environmental remediation industry at large. Melding traditional project management structure and advanced strategic planning techniques to the needs of environmental remediation, Modern Project Management Techniques for the Environmental Remediation Industry presents this major innovation: a standardized planning process, applicable to all types of remediation projects. Every participant in an environmental remediation effort can mutually benefit from Modern Project Management Techniques for the Environmental Remediation Industry. Environmental consultants will discover precise budget and schedule-planning skills-quite an advantage in their increasingly competitive industry. Customers will also know what to consider when selecting an environmental services company, and discover advanced methods for reducing project costs and durations. MPM: it's bringing new vitality and purpose to environmental protection. Put it into practice with the benefit of Havranek's real-life experience.

Revised and updated with the latest data in the field, the Second Edition of Managing Risk in Information Systems provides a comprehensive overview of the SSCP® Risk, Response, and Recovery Domain in addition to providing a thorough overview of risk management and its implications on IT infrastructu

Fundamentals of Project Management explains how to use the latest project management planning and control tools and techniques used by the planning software, the APM BoK 5ed, the PMBOK 4ed and the unit standards level 4. The text uses plenty of worked examples and exercises to explain how to use all the body of knowledge topics and particularly the Project Management Process, and the Project Management Plan. Target Market: Project managers new to project management who are managing projects of limited complexity. Project team members who are responsible for performing all the calculations, reporting and the administration functions. Contractors, suppliers and consultants who participate in projects. Support Material: An INSTRUCTOR GUIDE and POWERPOINTS SLIDES are available upon request.

This new edition gives project managers practical methods and tools to make the right decisions while juggling multiple objectives, risks and uncertainties, and stakeholders. Project management requires you to navigate a maze of multiple and complex decisions that are an everyday part of the job. To be effective, you must know how to make rational choices with your projects, what processes can help to improve these choices, and what tools are available to help you with decision-making. An entertaining and easy-to-read guide to a structured project decision-making process, Project Decisions will help you identify risks and perform basic quantitative and qualitative risk and decision analyses. Lev Virine and Michael Trumper use their understanding of basic human psychology to show you how to use event chain methodology, establish creative business environments, and estimate project time and costs. Each phase of the process is described in detail, including a review of both its psychological aspects and quantitative methods.

This Second Edition of the well-received text describes project management via a ``lifecycle'' approach. All the main steps in the life of a project are covered, from the planning stage to project completion. Presents the manager's, rather than the engineer's, point of view, covering organization, budgeting, scheduling, resource allocation, monitoring, and evaluation. This second edition features a new chapter on negotiating, expanded treatment of management information systems, and virtually all new readings. Each chapter now has a glossary and project team assignments, in addition to a summary, review questions, problems, readings, and cases.

Using a systems perspective, this updated version concentrates on the planning, scheduling and control factors of a project needed to bring it in on time and on or under cost. This edition contains expanded coverage of computer simulation and applications, information management and expert systems in project management. Includes a new chapter on Total Quality Management.

Successful Project Management: A Practical Guide for Managers offers new, innovative advice and techniques for those challenged by project management assignments. In clear, non-technical language Jack Gido and James P. Clements provide everything you need to effectively approach and complete projects from start to finish. With an emphasis on the practical, using real-world examples, Successful Project Management gives readers the expert knowledge and skills needed to complete projects on time, within budget, and to complete satisfaction.

Practical Project Management is not just another management book, promising to divulge the latest secrets to successful project management. Nor is it merely a catalog of perennial woes and bad practices. Rather, it is a book full of fresh insights on what makes organizations effective, on how a project might be doomed to failure before it even starts, on what a manager can do to prevent disaster, on what managers need to understand in order to carry out their duties in a constantly changing environment, and on ways that a manager can motivate project members and users to achieve positive results. Clearly, a manager cannot run a successful project on theory alone: He or she needs practical recommendations, strategies, and procedures that can be adapted to the specific environment. With this book, Meilir Page-Jones provides the know-how, backing it up with humorous but no-less-real examples from his own experience. This exceptional handbook explores -- Why and how projects must serve overall corporate objectives -- How to organize and manage the project itself -- How to hire, train, promote, and dismiss the people you manage. The book contains all the insights, examples, illustrations, exercises, strategies, and procedures you'll need to run an effective, successful department.