Project Management for the 21st Century

by Bennet P. Lientz, Kathryn P. Rea, Kathryn Rea

Book Overview

The challenge of managing projects is to combine the technology of the future with lessons from the past. In the Third Edition of Project Management for the 21st Century, noted authors Bennet Lientz and Kathryn Rea provide a modern, proven approach to project management. Properly applied without massive administrative overhead, project management can supply structure, focus, and control to drive work to success.
Third Edition...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 012449983X
• ISBN13: 9780124499836
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 414 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Well thought out book on project management

This book provides the basics of project management in an easy to use casual style. It proceeds step by step through building a plan and then managing a project. The chapter on project costing is good, but could use some more detail. The modern and historical examples are usefully examined. These could be expanded more later.

Modern, complete easy to use project management book

Project management for the 21st century is one of the most usable, easy to read, and complete project management books. There are good examples. Techniques are modern--better than that available in other books. This books stresses working together, sharing information, and dealing with resources that are spread among various projects. Very good reference.

Excellent general project management book

This is one of the best project management books for introducing employees to modern project management in an interesting way. Most project management books are ver dry and lack realistic examples. Thus, it is difficult to motivate people to read and use such materials. This is a very practical, down to earth book that has many guidelines that you can use immediately as you read the book. Some of the strengths of the book are: 1) best description of matrix management; 2) use of collaborative tools in managing projects; 3) how to deal with multiple projects; 4) how to share resources across several projects; 5) how to deal with risk in projects. The authors have developed a very creative and useful approach in dealing with project risk that associates project risk with unresolved issues. I highly recommend this book.

Excellent proj. mgmt. book for all levels

This book is very good for all types of projects. It covers setting up a project, organizing the work, managing a project, handling several projects at once, dealing with project issues and crises, using modern technology such as groupware and the Internet. The approach of establishing an issues data base and relating issues to specific tasks in a project is unique. It is very useful.

Best overall general project management book

This second edition provides many examples and modern project management techniques. Of particular note are the section on risk, multiple projects, the management critical path, and lessons learned as well as collaborative scheduling. The book is easy to read and not boring like most project management books.