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,SOLUTION MANUAL for Project Management:
The Managerial Process 8th Edition by Erik W.
Larson & Clifford F. Gray
ALL CHAPTERS 1-16 WITH APPENDIX A-D| A+ PASS




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Modern Project Management Ch
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apter Outline
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1. What Is a Project?
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A. What a Project Is Not
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C. The Project Life Cycle
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D. The Project Manager
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E. Being Part of a Project Team
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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 ds ds




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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After reading this chapter you should be able to:
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LO 1-1 Understand why project management is crucial in today‘s world.
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LO 1-2 Distinguish a project from routine operations.
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LO 1-3 Identify the different stages of a project life cycle.
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LO 1-4 Describe how Agile PM is different from traditional PM.
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5 Understand that managing projects involves balancing the technical and sociocultural dimensions of t
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he project.
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1. Define a project. What are five characteristics which help differentiate projects from oth
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er 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 characteristics of proje
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cts 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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c. Typically involves people from several disciplines
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d. A project life cycle
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e. Specific time, cost, and performance requirements.
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2. What are some of the key environmental forces that have changed the way projects are managed? Wh
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at has been the effect of these forces on the management of projects?
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Some environmental forces that have changed the way we manage projects are the product life cycle,
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knowledge growth, global competition, organization downsizing, technology changes, time-to-
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market. The impact of these forces is more projects per organization, project teams responsible for impl
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ementing projects, accountability, changing organization structures, need for rapid completion of proje
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cts, linking projects to organization strategy and customers, prioritizing projects to conserve organizati
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on resources, alliances with external organizations, and so on.
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