NEWSOUTH AFRICAN EDITION

Successful Project Management is intended for students as well as for working professionals and volunteers. The book outlines the essential skills which are required to make effective contributions and to have an immediate impact on the accomplishment of projects. It prepares students with marketable and transferrable skills and sends them into the workforce ready to apply project management knowledge and skills.

Students using this text learn the keys to effective communication both within and outside a team. A wealth of new and revised intriguing cases inspires discussion and debate, and the real-world vignettes, including local ones from South Africa and Africa, give students first-hand insights into how to apply project management in the workplace. Other learning features and a variety of end-of-chapter practice activities reinforce concepts critical to project management success.

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Successful Project Management 1st South African Edition

J. Gido, J.P. Clements, N. Harinarain

ISBN: 9781473751293 | April 2018

Written in an easy-to-understand, straightforward style with a minimum of technical terms. Readers acquire project management terminology gradually as they read the text.

Includes a broad range of examples, giving students a taste of project management skills in action.

Concepts in the chapters support the project management knowledge areas of the PMBOK® Guide. This ensures that the concepts students are learning reflect today’s best practices within project management.

Localised case studies place project management skills into practical contexts and encourage meaningful analysis and discussion among students.

A wealth of practical questions and effective online exercises encourage students to apply the concepts covered in the chapter.

Includes examples from South Africa and Africa, which students will be familiar with.

Jack GidoJack Gido has 20 years of industrial management experience, including the management of productivity improvement and technology development projects. He has an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Penn State University. Jack is a member of the Project Management Institute and former President of the Upstate New York Chapter, and teaches courses on project management.

Nishani HarinarainNishani Harinarain is a lecturer at the University of Kwazulu-Natal and was the University’s first PhD graduate in Construction Management – a woman succeeding in a male-dominated environment. She was also 2014’s Distinguished Teacher Awardee from UKZN’s School of Engineering and the recipient of the 2017 Women in Engineering and the Built Environment Excellence Award.

James P. ClementsJames P. Clements currently serves as the 15th President of Clemson University. He holds a PhD in Operations Analysis from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, an M.S. in Computer Science from the Johns Hopkins University, and a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He is the author of more than 50 research publications. During the past 25 years, Dr Clements has served as a consultant for a number of public and private organisations.

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