Bücher der Reihe Routledge Frontiers in Project Management

The concept of sustainability has grown in recognition and importance. This title explores and identifies the questions surrounding the integration of the concepts of sustainability in projects and project management and provides guidance and insights.

Success in business depends on two broad management skills: 'doing the right thing' (choosing the right projects) and 'doing things right' (good project management). This book examines the challenges that managers face in assessing the likely risks and benefits that need to be taken into account when choosing projects.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always got, and if it's not good enough, you need to do something else. As project complexity increases, so too does the need to do new things. This book addresses the issues of a complex, unstable, uncertain environment with all its associated difficulties.

Projects have always been essentially human endeavours. The spirituality that originally defined some of the great construction projects of the classical era surely has a role in project management today. This book explains the context for spirituality in projects and explores how it can be used to create a larger sense of purpose and achievement.

Helps professionals understand the limitations of the risk management techniques. This title introduces the concepts of societal benefit and behavioural risk, and illustrates why project risk has followed a particular path, developing from the basis of engineering, science and mathematics.

The success of any project relies on the punctual, accurate and cost-effective delivery of materials, systems and facilities. This title demonstrates how customised supply chain management can be applied to project management, ensuring project resources are delivered as required, reducing delays and costs and promoting a successful outcome.

How relevant is ethics to project management? The book - which aims to demystify the field of ethics for project managers and managers in general - takes both a critical and a practical look at project management in terms of success criteria, and ethical opportunities and risks.

Explains what customer-centricity means in terms of how you work and its importance for project performance. This title uses tools and processes to guide customer-centric thinking to help you see the results of engagement and demonstrates how things can improve, even on difficult projects.

Managing Quality in Projects shines the spotlight on an aspect of project management that can often be overshadowed by the pressure to deliver on time and on budget. Ron Basu's investigation focuses initially on defining the dimensions of quality in project management and identifying sources of measurement for project excellence.