Leading Project Teams
The Basics of Project Management and Team Leadership
- Anthony T. Cobb - Virginia Tech, USA
This practical book provides entry-level project tools and skills for newcomers to project management. It helps student teams become more effective at doing course projects by learning and applying project management tools and techniques. It also provides invaluable skills that students can utilize when they enter the workplace. Chapters focusing on project initiation and planning are followed by coverage of the human resource issues involved in project leadership and how to write up project reports. Appendices introduce the use of earned value analysis and show how critical paths are calculated.
Social Media is a complex environment. Including a Project Management text in an advanced Social Media Strategy course is crucial as it equips students with essential skills to efficiently plan, execute, and evaluate social media campaigns, ensuring alignment with broader business objectives.
We were looking for a more basic approach to the concepts of Project Management for this 200 level course. It provides the key concepts with examples and was well received with test group.
This text can be used as additional course material
This text works perfectly with their service-learning team assignment.
A clear overview of project management ! An essential guide to develop coherent projects
The main theme of the course is professionalism and ethics for Construction PMs. This book will help with two of the four course topics.