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The AMA Handbook of Project Management
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Paul C. Dinsmore and Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin, editors

©2006, hardback, 512pp., AMACOM

This comprehensive reference presents the critical concepts that all project managers must master.The book provides valuable insight on how to establish project goals, implement strategic and operational planning, design dependable organizational structures, manage the project life cycle, budget the project, and handle the transition from project idea to project reality.
The Superior Project Manager: Global Competency Standards and Best Practices
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Frank Toney

©2002, hardcover, 314pp., Marcel Dekker/Center for Business Practices

The Superior Project Manager describes global best practices, competencies, and standards of superior project managers based on research conducted by the Project Management Benchmarking Forum, emphasizing the selection process, performance evaluation, and personnel development to provide the key elements for adjusting and adapting to flexible conditions, and highlighting enhancements in professional image, job performance, and personal earnings.
Optimizing Human Capital with a Strategic Project Office
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J. Kent Crawford and Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin


© 2006, hardback, 424pp., Auerbach Publications/Center for Business Practices


Optimizing Human Capital with a Strategic Project Office explores the SPO's potential to transform an enterprise by making the most of people within an organization. This volume provides an exhaustive review of topics such as the hiring, retention, measurement, training, and professional development of knowledge workers in project management. 
Project Management Maturity Model: Second Edition
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J. Kent Crawford


© 2007, hardback, 235pp., Auerbach Publications/Center for Business Practices


Project Management Maturity Model, Second Edition is a roadmap showing an organization how to systematically move to higher levels of performance by improving project success. It's a comprehensive tool for enhancing your project management practices and processes, covering areas critical to organizational improvement such as the project office, management oversight and professional development. 
The Juggler's Guide to Managing Multiple Projects
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Michael S. Dobson

©1999, paperback, 144pp. Project Management Institute

Calmly and efficiently managing several projects successfully at the same time is a learned skill, valuable not only for project managers, but also for anyone responsible for the successful outcome of multiple projects, whether it is at the office or in the home. This book provides a significant step in learning that skill, featuring examples of business-tested forms, charts, logs, tables, and worksheets—everything project managers need to crash, level, analyze, plan, and control tasks.
What Makes a Good Project Manager
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James S. Pennypacker and Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin, editors


© 2003, paperback, 104pp., Center for Business Practices


What Makes a Good Project Manager offers a clear and succinct description of what it takes to be a competent project manager. The essays, book excerpts, and other materials in this book focus on key personal skills and interpersonal abilities that lead to project manager success, such as mentoring, decision-making, facilitating, and communication. 
Project Portfolio Management Maturity Model
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James S. Pennypacker, editor


© 2005, paperback, 96pp., Center for Business Practices


The ultimate goal of the Project Portfolio Management Maturity Model is to help you improve the capability of your organization’s project portfolio management processes. By focusing on specific project portfolio management-related improvement processes, your organization can best leverage the resources assigned to improvement activities while rallying the organization around specific goals. 
Project Management Essentials
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William P. Athayde, Deborah Bigelow Crawford, Ruth Elswick, and Paul Lombard


© 2007, paperback, 190pp., Center for Business Practices


The foundation of what every project manager needs to know in order to successfully manage projects is presented in this introductory text. Project Management Essentials covers the basic concepts of the five fundamental project management processes, defining requirements, schedules, risk management, and change control.
Effective Opportunity Management for Projects
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David Hillson

2003, hardcover, 316 pp, Marcel Dekker/Center for Business Practices

With step-by-step guidelines, this book unveils a revolutionary approach to the management of project opportunities by expanding the traditional risk management process to address opportunities alongside threats. It offers valuable tools and techniques that expose and capture opportunities, minimize threats, and deal effectively with all types of uncertainty in your business and projects.
Risk Management: Concepts and Guidance
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Carl Pritchard, editor

2001, hardcover, 340pp., ESI International
 
Life is a risky business. Especially in the highly competitive business world where unrecognized, unplanned for, and unmitigated risks could sink a project, a company, or even a career. To survive, businesses, and project managers in particular, must understand what risks they face and adopt strategies for incorporating those risk opportunities into effective project management. This comprehensive text provides proven principles and practices for identifying and managing uncertainty in your project.