6th Edition

The Handbook of Project Management

Edited By Martina Huemann, Rodney Turner Copyright 2024
666 Pages 87 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

666 Pages 87 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This practice-oriented handbook presents practitioners and students with a comprehensive overview of the essential knowledge and current best practices in project management. It includes the most up-to-date thinking in the discipline, describing recent developments in a way that practitioners can immediately use in their work. The Handbook of Project Management was the first “APM Body of... Read more

1.     A handbook for project management practitioners

Martina Huemann and Rodney Turner

Part I: Projects

2.     Projects and their management

Rodney Turner and Martina Huemann

3.     Linking strategy and projects through strategic initiatives

Vadake K. Narayanan

4.     Project success

Jeffrey Pinto and Lavagnon Ika

5.     Managing project complexity

Rodney Turner and Martina Huemann 

6.     Auditing projects and programs

Martina Huemann

Part II: Performance

7.     Measuring project performance

Ossi Pesämaa

8.     Managing requirements, scope and configuration

Hemanta Doloi

9.     Project organization

Rodney Turner and Martina Huemann

10.  Project owner organizations

Graham M Winch

11.  Managing business case and benefits realization

Jack Meredith and Ofer Zwikael

12.  Managing value in projects

Miia Martinsuo

13.  Managing integrated project delivery

Derek Walker and Beverley Lloyd-Walker

14.  Data analytics in managing projects

Eleni Papadonikolaki and Carlos Galera-Zarco

15.  Managing digital projects infrastructure

Jennifer Whyte and Ali Eshraghi

16.  Managing project risk

David Hillson

17.  Managing project crisis

Christine Unterhitzenberger

18.  Sustainable project management

Gilbert Silvius, Ron Schipper and Martina Huemann

Part III: Process

19.  Managing the process

Martina Huemann and Rodney Turner

20.  Feasibility and planning

Marian Bosch-Rekveldt, Hans Bakker and Marcel Hertogh

21.  Design thinking in projects

Ruth Christine Lechler, Martina Huemann, and Patrick Lehner

22.  Predictive, adaptive and hybrid project approaches

Dagmar Silvius-Zuchi and Gilbert Silvius

23.  Scenario planning

Rodney Turner

Part IV: People

24.  The project manager

Lynn Crawford

25.  The project sponsor

Lynn Crawford

26.  The project team

Reinhard Wagner

27.  Engaging project stakeholders

Pernille Eskerod and Martina Huemann

28.  Project leadership model

Natalya Sergeeva, Graham Winch, and Eunice Maytorena-Sanchez

29.  Balanced leadership

Ralf Müller

30.  Motivation of young project professionals

Martina Huemann and Ruth Christine Lechler

31.  Managing diversity

Anna Y. Khodijah

32.  Behavioral bias

Bent Flyvbjerg

33.  Ethics

Darren Dalcher

Part V: Portfolio

34.  Managing programs

Harvey Maylor and Ruth Murray-Webster

35.  Managing project portfolios

Hans Georg Gemünden and Alexander Kock

36. Managing project sequences

Hans Georg Gemünden and Alexander Kock

37.  Machine learning in project portfolio selection

Costanza Mariani and Mauro Mancini

38. Organizational project management

Shankar Sankaran

39. The project-oriented organization

Martina Huemann

40. The governance of projects

Ralf Müller

41. The PMO

Monique Aubry

Part VI: Perspectives

42. Projectification of society

Yvonne Schoper and Helgi Thor Ingason

43. Quality of life in smart cities

Beverly Pasian and Aaron Shenhar

44. A reflection

Rodney Turner

Biography

Martina Huemann is a Professor for Major Infrastructure Delivery at BSSC, University College London and Professor at WU Vienna. Martina is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Project Management and Founding Editor-in-Chief of Project Leadership and Society. As co-founder of enable2change, she believes in co-creation between practitioners, policy makers, and scholars.

Rodney Turner is a Visiting Professor at the University of Leeds. He is the author or editor of 18 books and editor of the International Journal of Project Management from 1993 to 2018. His research covers governance, stakeholder experience, and megaproject management. In 2004, he received a research achievement award from PMI and in 2012 from IPMA.