Project management : a systems approach to planning, scheduling, and controlling / Harold Kerzner.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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 management -- Quality management -- Modern developments in project management -- The business of scope changes -- The project office -- Managing crisis projects -- The rise, fall, and resurrection of Iridium : a project management perspective -- Appendix A. Solutions to the project management conflict exercise -- Appendix B. Solution to leadership exercise -- Appendix C. Dorale Products case studies -- Appendix D. Solution to the Dorale Products case studies answers -- Appendix E. Crosslisting of PMBOK® to the text.