"The role of project manager requires maintaining a balance between the demands of the customer, the project, the team, and the organization. This provides a real challenge in the fields of time management and prioritization. Successful Project Management covers the more technical aspects of a project from start to completion, and contains tested and tried techniques on managing stake holders, effective risk management, project planning, launch, and execution. This fifth edition contains new features including summary points at the end of each chapter and a glossary of key terms"-- Provided by publisher.

"Successful Project Management, 5th edition, is an essential guide for anyone who wants to improve the success rate of their projects. It will help managers to maintain a balance between the demands of the customer, the project, the team and the organization. Covering the more technical aspects of a project from start to completion it contains practised and tested techniques, covering project conception and start-up, how to manage stake holders, effective risk management, project planning and launch and execution. Also including a brand new glossary of key terms, it provides help with evaluating your project as well as practical checklists and templates to ensure success for any ambitious project manager. With over one million copies sold, the hugely popular Creating Success series covers a wide variety of topic, with the latest editions including new chapters such as Tough Conversations and Treating People Right. This indispensable business skills collection is suited to a variety of roles, from someone looking to develop their time management skills for a society committee role, to someone with a business idea looking to build a strategic plan"-- Provided by publisher.