The Project Manager's Guide to Making Successful Decisions
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The Project Manager's Guide to Making Successful Decisions

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The Project Manager's Guide to Making Successful Decisions

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About This Book

Make Better Decisions While Managing Projects!
Decision-making is critical in project management. Lack of decision-making knowledge, avoidable mistakes, and improper definitions can negatively impact your company's ability to generate profit. The Project Manager's Guide to Making Successful Decisions is a practical handbook that focuses on the significance of project decision-making skills that will all you to reach workable and effective results. This valuable resource highlights numerous decisions necessary to support the project management life cycle, presents various techniques that facilitate the decision-making process, provides an overview of decision analysis as it relates to project management, and much more!
+ Understand different types of decision-making processes and cycles
+ Recognize how to frame the decision and gather better information
+ Define alternatives and assessments to make the right decision
+ Analyze short case studies demonstrating project decision making success

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Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Year
2008
ISBN
9781567263800
Edition
1
Topic
Business
Subtopic
Investments & Securities
Index
Business

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. About the Authors
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Chapter 1: Good Decision-Making: The Key to Project Success
  10. Chapter 2: Managerial Decision-Making
  11. Chapter 3: Decisions and the Project Management Life Cycle
  12. Chapter 4: Overview of Decision-Making
  13. Chapter 5: Project Management Decisions
  14. Chapter 6: Framing the Decision
  15. Chapter 7: Generating Decision Alternatives
  16. Chapter 8: Analyzing the Alternatives in Terms of Values and Uncertainty
  17. Chapter 9: Handling Risk and Uncertainty
  18. Chapter 10: Training Project Managers as Decision Makers
  19. Appendix A: Project Success Case Studies
  20. Appendix B: Project Management Decisions
  21. Appendix C: An Introduction to Decision Trees
  22. References
  23. Additional Reading
  24. Index