Product Description

The classic project manager's handbook, with new chapters and insights that demystify the new PM tools and the PMP® exam

Project Planning, Scheduling, and Control has been the standard guidebook for project managers for more than 15 years. Addressing the key issues you face every day, Jim Lewis's benchmark book brings the subject alive with accessible, nontechnical questions, step-by-step guidelines, and real-world examples and applications. This revised, updated, and expanded fourth edition provides an applications-oriented understanding of the issues you must confront and important tips for passing the Project Management Professional (PMP®) exam.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #13331 in Books
• Published on: 2005-12-15
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 550 pages

About the Author

James P. Lewis, Ph.D., is the founder of The Lewis Institute, Inc., a training and consulting company specializing in project management, and an adjunct professor at the University of Management and Technology. Over the past two decades, Dr. Lewis has trained more than 30,000 supervisors and managers in the United States, Europe, Asia, and throughout the world. He has written 12 influential books on project management, including Project Leadership, The Project Manager's Desk Reference, The Project Manager's Survival Guide, and others.

Customer Reviews

Replete with expertise and insights gleaned from experience.
I read this book to augment my graduate-level Project Management course. I knew of the author's reputation as an instructor and a pioneer. The book lived up to my expectations.

Mr. Lewis covered the major aspects of managing a project very concisely and expertly. Here for example are the four reasons he gave for consensually estimating a task's duration:

1. No one person is "on the hook" for the estimate. If it turns out to be significantly off, no individual will get chastised for it.

2. Inexperienced team members will learn from the more experienced ones. Their ability to estimate improves.

3. Collectively, the team will be more likely to think of all the factors that may affect the time required to do the task. An individual is more likely to omit some of them. (This is an instance where more heads are better than one.)

4. I, as the PM, will receive a higher psychological commitment to the estimate than would be true if a single individual came up with it.

This is all fine and dandy but how can I use it?

It becomes another arrow in my quiver, so to speak. I can use it to clearly articulate the advantages of consensual estimating to anyone who challenges the idea. How many times do we run into a stakeholder who questions the need to "waste" time and effort coming up with a consensual estimate?

Bravo to Mr. Lewis for this wonderful book!

Great Book for top line overview of PM
Very well written book on Project Management. Easy to follow and well illustrated. The author also provides practical insight in to "how PM really works".

The book covers the entire PM process. I bought the book to learn more about scheduling and as it turns out scheduling is not the main focus of the book. Still a worthwhile read

Good overview
The author does a good job of discussing the basic material in PM, in addition to spicing up the content with real-world examples and a nice, honest tone in monologue. A good addition to any PM's library.