This books shows you how to discover how to dramatically improve the processes of project-based management in any organization! One of the most influential books ever written on the development of project management, The Handbook of Project-Based Management has been completely revised for a new generation of readers.

The Third Edition features a major change in focus from delivering corporate objectives to achieving strategic change, including embedding corporate change after a project is completed. Filled with over 150 illustrations, The Third Edition of The Handbook of Project-Based Management contains:

* A rigorous guide to project management practice for the twenty-first century

* Complete tools for managing project performance and process

* New to this edition: new focus on achieving strategic change; new information on the project life cycle; new applications to different industries; new material on strategic design, stakeholders, and organizational capability; shift in emphasis from administrative procedures to governance.

Inside this cutting-edge guide to twenty-first century project management you'll find, the context of projects, projects for delivering beneficial change, achieving project success and strategy, the people involved, how to manage performance regarding scope, project organization, quality, cost, time, risk, project execution and control, and project close out

 You'll also find information on governance of project-based management including developing organizational capability, governance of the project-based organization, and managing international projects.

452 pp.