Managing Business Projects: The Essentials

Managing Business Projects: The Essentials differs from many other project management textbooks.Foremost, it is about business projects as opposed to construction or engineering projects.Although many techniques, like schedule management, apply to both, they are usually applied differently.As its title conveys, the book explains the essential techniques and perspectives needed for business projects to be successful.The focus is on small- and medium-sized projects, up to $20 million, but often below $1 million.Some literature favors large and mega-projects, but for every mega-project, there are many thousands of smaller projects that are vital to the organization and could involve considerable complexity and risk.Nevertheless, the techniques outlined here also apply to mega-projects and their many subprojects; they even apply to some aspects of construction or engineering projects. This book does not aim to cover all project management techniques.In real life there is simply no time for