Project management : a systems approach to planning, scheduling, and controlling / Harold Kerzner, Ph. D. Senior Executive Director for Project Management, the International Institute for Learning, New York, New York.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Overview -- Project management growth : concepts and definitions -- Organizational structures -- Organizing and staffing the project office and team -- Management functions -- Management of your time and stress -- Conflicts -- Special topics -- The variables for success -- Working with executives -- Planning -- Network scheduling techniques -- Project graphics -- Pricing and estimating -- Cost control -- Trade-off analysis in a project environment -- Risk management -- Learning curves -- Contract managment -- Quality management -- Modern developments in project management -- The business of scope changes -- The project office -- Managing crisis projects -- Future of project managment -- The rise, fall, and resurrection of iridium : a project management perspective -- Appendix A. Solutions to the project management conflict exercise -- Appendix B. Solutions to leadership exercise -- Appendix C. Dorale products case studies -- Appendix D. Solutions to the Dorale products case studies -- Appendix E. Alignment of the PMBOK® guide to the text -- Author index -- Subject index.