Trend: How to Comprehensively Understand Modern Project Management

Author: Yun Qian, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: The purpose of this book is to provide readers with a comprehensive overview of the project management discipline. Based on introducing the background knowledge and key points of the project management knowledge system, it sequentially outlines the framework of project management from three perspectives: project execution/management organization, specific project execution, and project teams. Finally, it briefly discusses the evolution and current status of project management in China, combining theoretical knowledge to propose some practical recommendations. For readers interested in project management, this book offers a fundamental conceptual understanding of the discipline. To save readers' time, the appendix also provides information sources that most people are interested in, including books, websites, training institutions, etc. Additionally, it includes one international standard and one national industry standard, offering project management insights from both abstract and concrete levels. The main body of the book is divided into seven chapters, with the following structure: First, it introduces the background knowledge and key points of project management (Chapters 1 and 2); then, it outlines the framework of project management from high to low, sequentially covering project execution/management organization, specific project execution, and project teams (Chapters 3, 4, and 5); finally, it briefly discusses the evolution and current status of project management in China, combining theoretical knowledge to propose some practical recommendations (Chapters 6 and 7). This book is a crystallization of collective wisdom. All authors are senior project managers from various industries with extensive practical experience. Additionally, they are all alumni of the Modern Excellence Project Management Training Program, having undergone rigorous, formal, and professional modern project management studies.