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Full Solution Manual – Project Management: The Managerial Process (8th Edition, Erik W. Larson & Clifford F. Gray) | Latest 2025 Update

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Project Management: The Managerial Process
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, Project Management: The Managerial Process
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Chapter 1 vf




Modern Project Management vf vf




Chapter Outline vf




1. What Is a Project?
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A. What a Project Is Not vf vf vf vf



B. Program versus Project vf vf



C. The Project Life Cycle
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D. The Project Manager vf vf




E. Being Part of a Project Team vf vf vf vf vf



2. Agile Project Management
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3. Current Drivers of Project Management
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C. Triple Bottom Line (Planet, People, Profit)
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D. Increased Customer Focus vf vf



E. Small Projects Represent Big Problems
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4. Project Management Today: A Socio-Technical Approach
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5. Summary
6. Text Overview
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7. Key Terms
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9. Snapshot from Practice: Discussion Questions
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10. Exercises
11. Case 1.1: A Day in the Life—2019
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12. Case 1.2: The Hokies Lunch Group
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Chapter Learning Objectives vf vf




After reading this chapter you should be able to:
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LO 1-1
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LO 1-2
vf Distinguish a project from routine operations. vf vf vf vf vf




LO 1-3
vf Identify the different stages of a project life cycle.
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LO 1-4
vf Describe how Agile PM is different from traditional PM.
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LO 1-5
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Understand that managing projects involves balancing the technical vf vf vf vf vf vf vf vf


and sociocultural dimensions of the project.
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Review Questions vf




1. Define a project. What are five characteristics which help differentiate projects
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from other functions carried out in the daily operations of the organization?
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A project is a complex, non-routine, one-
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time effort limited by time, budget, resource, and specifications. Differentiating chara
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cteristics of projects from routine, repetitive daily work are below:
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a. A defined lifespan
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b. A well-defined objective
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d. A project life cycle
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2. What are some of the key environmental forces that have changed the way
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projects are managed? What has been the effect of these forces on the m
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anagement of projects? vf vf




Some environmental forces that have changed the way we manage projects are the pr
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oduct life cycle, knowledge growth, global competition, organization downsizing, tec
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market. The impact of these forces is more projects per organization, project teams re
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sponsible for implementing projects, accountability, changing organization structures
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, need for rapid completion of projects, linking projects to organization strategy and
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customers, prioritizing projects to conserve organization resources, alliances with ext
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ernal organizations, and so on.
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3. Describe the four phases of the traditional project life cycle. Which phase do you
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think would be most the difficult one to complete?
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