SOLUTION MANUAL FOR PROJECT
MANAGEMENT A SOCIO-TECHNICAL
APPROACH 2025 RELEASE BY ERIK
LARSON, CLIFFORD GRAY AND
PINYARAT SIRISOMBOONSUK, WITH
ALL APPENDIX
1-1
,TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. modern project management
2. organization strategy and project selection
3. organization: structure and culture
4. defining the project
5. estimating project times and costs
6. developing a project plan
7. managing risk
8. scheduling resources and costs
9. reducing project duration
10. leadership: being an effective project manager
11. managing project teams
12. outsourcing: managing
interorganizational relations
13. progress and performance
measurement and evaluation
14. project closure
15. international projects
16. oversight
17. an introduction to agile project management
18. project management career paths
1-2
, chapter 1
modern project management
chapter outline
1. what is a project?
A. what a project is not
B. the project life cycle
C. the project manager
2. the importance of project management
A. compression of the product life cycle
B. global competition
C. knowledge explosion
D. corporate downsizing
E. increased customer focus
F. small projects represent big problems
3. project management today—an integrative approach
A. integration of projects with the strategic plan
B. integration within the process of managing actual projects
4. summary
5. text overview
6. key terms
7. review questions
8. exercises
9. case: a day in the life
chapter objectives
to explain why project management is crucial in today’s world
to define a project and differentiate projects from routine operations
to establish the importance of projects in implementing organization strategy
to establish that managing projects is an act of balancing the technical and
1-3
, sociocultural sides of the project.
1-4
MANAGEMENT A SOCIO-TECHNICAL
APPROACH 2025 RELEASE BY ERIK
LARSON, CLIFFORD GRAY AND
PINYARAT SIRISOMBOONSUK, WITH
ALL APPENDIX
1-1
,TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. modern project management
2. organization strategy and project selection
3. organization: structure and culture
4. defining the project
5. estimating project times and costs
6. developing a project plan
7. managing risk
8. scheduling resources and costs
9. reducing project duration
10. leadership: being an effective project manager
11. managing project teams
12. outsourcing: managing
interorganizational relations
13. progress and performance
measurement and evaluation
14. project closure
15. international projects
16. oversight
17. an introduction to agile project management
18. project management career paths
1-2
, chapter 1
modern project management
chapter outline
1. what is a project?
A. what a project is not
B. the project life cycle
C. the project manager
2. the importance of project management
A. compression of the product life cycle
B. global competition
C. knowledge explosion
D. corporate downsizing
E. increased customer focus
F. small projects represent big problems
3. project management today—an integrative approach
A. integration of projects with the strategic plan
B. integration within the process of managing actual projects
4. summary
5. text overview
6. key terms
7. review questions
8. exercises
9. case: a day in the life
chapter objectives
to explain why project management is crucial in today’s world
to define a project and differentiate projects from routine operations
to establish the importance of projects in implementing organization strategy
to establish that managing projects is an act of balancing the technical and
1-3
, sociocultural sides of the project.
1-4
