Project Manager’s Guide to Making Successful Decisions

Description

Decision-making is critical in project management. Lack of decision-making knowledge, avoidable mistakes, and improper definitions can negatively impact a company’s ability to generate profit. This book is a practical handbook that focuses on the significance of project decision-making skills that will allow readers to reach workable and effective results. This valuable resource highlights numerous decisions necessary to support the project management life cycle, presents various techniques that facilitate the decision-making process, provides an overview of decision analysis as it relates to project management, and much more! Content: Front Matter Preface • Table of Contents 1. Good Decision-Making: The Key to Project Success 2. Managerial Decision-Making 3. Decisions and the Project Management Life Cycle 4. Overview of Decision-Making 5. Project Management Decisions 6. Framing the Decision 7. Generating Decision Alternatives 8. Analyzing the Alternatives in Terms of Values and Uncertainty 9. Handling Risk and Uncertainty 10. Training Project Managers as Decision Makers Appendices • References Index