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The book is designed to offer a thoughtful commentary on project management as it has been practiced and taught over the last 60 or more years, and as it may be over the next 20 to 40, drawing on examples from several industry sectors. Its thesis is that 'it all depends on how you define the subject' -- that much of our present thinking about p.m. as traditionally defined is boring, sometimes conceptually weak or even flawed, and/or of limited application, whereas in reality what it can offer is exciting, challenging and potentially enormously useful. The book explores this hypothesis drawing on leading scholarship and practitioner perceptions. Section 1 sets the scene -- the purpose and context of the book. Section 2 covers the origins of modern project management and the limitations of the traditional project management model. Section 3 dissects many of the challenges still facing project management, in doing so it examines many of the more difficult, interesting and intractable issues in the discipline today. Section 4 focuses on opportunities open to the discipline in the (increasingly challenging) years ahead.

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This book is well written in plain, unambiguous English. It is for all serious project management practitioners working on any significant project in any area of project management application... This is an academic tome, yet ... surprisingly easy and enjoyable reading...the contents throughout the book provide incredible insights and sound and realistic advice. (From a review by R.Max Wideman, Fellow of the Project Management Institute, December 2014) Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals/practitioners. (Choice, 1 February 2014)

"""This book is well written in plain, unambiguous English. It is for all serious project management practitioners working on any significant project in any area of project management application... This is an academic tome, yet ... surprisingly easy and enjoyable reading...the contents throughout the book provide incredible insights and sound and realistic advice."" (From a review by R.Max Wideman, Fellow of the Project Management Institute, December 2014) ""Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals/practitioners."" (Choice, 1 February 2014)"

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Peter Morris is Professor of Construction and Project Management at University College London (UCL). He is the author of The Management of Projects (Thomas Telford, 1994) and, with George Hough, of The Anatomy of Major Projects (John Wiley & Sons, 1987) and with Ashley Jamieson of Translating Corporate Strategy into Project Strategy ( PMI, 2004). He is co-editor with Jeffrey Pinto of The Wiley Guide to Managing Projects (Wiley, 2005); and, with Jeffrey Pinto and Jonas Soderlund of The Oxford Handbook of Project Management (OUP, 2010). He is a past Chairman of the Association for Project Management (APM) and Deputy Chairman of the International Project Management Association (IPMA). He received the Project Management Institute's 2005 Research Achievement Award, IPMA's 2009 Research Award, and APM's 2008 Sir Monty Finniston Life Time Achievement Award.

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