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As the number and size of projects continue to increase, there is a growing demand for effective project managers. Project Management: A Risk-Management Approach prepares students to successfully navigate the many challenges, factors, and situations that project managers face. Authors Ted Klastorin and Gary Mitchell emphasize the importance of mitigating risk at every stage, helping students avoid common pitfalls that lead to project failures, compromised schedules, or incurred costs. Real-world examples, cases, solved problems, and practice problems help bring methodologies to life. Readers will be equipped with the tools they need to plan, schedule, and monitor even the most complex projects in a variety of market sectors. Included with this title: The password-protected Instructor Resource Site (formally known as SAGE Edge) offers access to all text-specific resources, including a test bank and editable, chapter-specific PowerPoint(R) slides.

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Ted Klastorin is the Burlington Resources/Burlington Northern Professor in the ISOM Department at the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, and is an adjunct professor in the Department of Systems and Industrial Engineering in the College of Engineering at the University of Washington. He has worked in the project management area for more than 40 years; he was part of the team that initially developed MS Project for Microsoft and has worked with many profit and nonprofit organizations on project management-related issues. Professor Klastorin has published widely in the project management area; his current research focuses on the design of optimal contracts in decentralized projects and new systems for evaluating and monitoring ongoing projects. He holds a BS degree from Carnegie Mellon University and a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. Gary Mitchell holds a distinguished professorship in the Robert B. Pamplin Jr. School of Business Administration at the University of Portland and has worked in and taught project management for more than 35 years. He was a successful project manager who managed IT package implementation, custom development, packaged software development, business profit improvement, and business reengineering projects. Professor Mitchell also managed projects involving distribution center and warehouse design, construction, and operational setup projects. His current research focuses on managing the impact of uncertainty in projects and supply chains, and new approaches for evaluating and monitoring ongoing projects. He holds a BA degree in psychology and studio art, an MBA in finance from the University of California at Riverside, and a PhD in operations management from the University of Washington.

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