Project Management: for Business, Engineering, and Technology. Principles and Practices - 3rd Edition John M. Nicholas, Herman Steyn Project Management for Business, Engineering and Technology, 3rd Edition is a direct response to the ever-increasing need for better project management. This book encompasses the full range of project management - everything from origins, philosophy, and methodology to actual applications. Nicholas and Steyn describe concepts and techniques such as project initiation and proposals; scope and task definition ; scheduling and budgeting ; quality, procurement, and risk management ; project control and organization ; and the often overlooked "people" side -project leadership, team building, conflict, and stress management. The Systems Development Cycle is used as a framework to discuss project management in a variety of situations, making this book useful for managing virtually any kind of project, program or task force. The book views a project as goal-oriented system of interrelated components – tasks and stakeholders - functioning in a larger environment; The purpose of project management is to unify and integrate the components - the interests, resources and work efforts of many stakeholders, as well as schedules, budgets, and plans, to accomplish the project goal. This new edition provides: * A comprehensive, balanced view that emphasizes both the behavioral and quantitative sides of project management. * Methods, procedures and systems for defining, planning, scheduling, controlling and organizing project activities. * Methods and procedures for handling the organizational, managerial and human behavioral issues relevant to project management. * Tools and concepts of growing importance, including project methodology, the project management office, project portfolio management and international project management. * Over 100 examples and case studies, most drawn from actual projects. […] John Nicholas is Professor of Operations Management, Loyola University, Chicago, USA. Herman Steyn is Professor at the Graduate School of Technology Management, University of Pretoria, South Africa. The authors draw on their many years of experience as teachers, writers, and researchers in project management, as well as practical experience gained from industry projects.