Project Management Toolbox: Tools and Techniques for the Practicing Project Manager

By Dragan Z. Milosevic

Book Overview

Provides a rare look at the situational framework used in building a project management toolbox. * Includes real-world examples of toolboxes used in a variety of project situations. * Bridges the gap between theoretical and applied project management.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471208221
• ISBN13: 9780471208228
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Length: 584 Pages
• Weight: 2.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.3" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Highly recommended and extremely useful

This book is a fantastic resource for Business Analysts and Project Managers alike. I've recommended this book to several of my contemporaries, and use variations of many of the tools discussed in the book. If you've ever had a creative block on how to demonstrate good analyses, this set of tools will provide you with the spark you need.

A Practical "Goldmine"

If you're a project manager, this is one of those invaluable resources to add to your personal "toolkit". This is a very practical reference book to keep close to your workspace. It contains more than 50 tools you can incorporate into your practice. When that moment arrives in the project where one of your managers demands some additional piece of information presented in a particular way (as Murphy's Law describes -...

Finally we have a ToolBox in one peace

Traditionally, project management tools and techniques have been seen as vehicles for reaching an objective or, more specifically, a project deliverable. However, most project management literature just describes individual tools and, at best, loosely gathers them into a quasi-toolbox to aid the project or program manager in doing the job more effectively. Thankfully, the business community finally has Project Management...

"Project Management Toolbox" Helps Win Projects!

I don't share many of my consulting "know-how" secrets, but in this case I will, because I think the field of PM will benefit from the ideas presented in this book. After working 20 years in the consulting and project management field, I felt I was as knowledgeable as one could be about managing projects. Then one day, I came across Dragan's PM ToolBox. WOW! Every page is an eye opener. And this book really is a toolbox...

Put This Book on Your Desk, Not on Your Bookshelf!

Prof. Milosevic's Project Management Toolbox is to the practitioner of Project Management what the Physicians' Desk Reference is to practitioners of medicine. As the name appropriately implies, this book contains just about every tool and technique one can imagine to be used to manage, and assess projects effectively. But not one or two tools for every phase of a project, but several -- or to quote a cliche -- "a tool for...