6th Edition
The Handbook of Project Management
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 Knowledge Approved” title for the Association for Project Management. Over the course of six editions, The Handbook of Project Management has become the definitive desk reference for project management practitioners. The team of expert contributors, selected to introduce the reader to the knowledge and skills required to manage projects, includes many of the most experienced and highly regarded international writers and practitioners. The book is divided into six parts: Projects; Performance; Process; People; Portfolio; and Perspectives. Including over 25 completely new chapters, this sixth edition provides a fully up-to-date encyclopaedia for the discipline and profession of project management.
The book will be of use to all project management practitioners, from those starting out in the profession to people with advanced experience. It is also highly relevant to students, with earlier editions being used as a set or recommended text on Masters’ courses in project management.
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.
