Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents: 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 -- Future of project management -- The rise, fall and resurrection of iridium: a project management perspective --