The Management of ProjectsThis book will undoubtedly become one of the classics of the project management literature.There will be a growing need for project managers who can look beyond the internal processes of their projects to the organisational, technological and socio-economic contexts in which projects must be managed. A good starting point would be for all project managers to read this.book.- Construction Management and Economics |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Second World War | 10 |
the development of Systems | 19 |
Apollo and the decade | 38 |
the expansion of project management | 89 |
expansion of the strategic | 150 |
150 | 209 |
the new model | 213 |
And now? | 273 |
Notes | 313 |
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