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Project
Management
Dr William Wallace
PR-A3-engb 1/2014 (1006)
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Project Management
Dr William Wallace
BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD.
DBA Programme Director and Senior Teaching Fellow, Edinburgh Business School (EBS), the Graduate
School of Business at Heriot-Watt University.
Dr William Wallace holds degrees from Leeds Metropolitan University (1981), Loughborough University
(1983) and Heriot-Watt University (1987). He joined Edinburgh Business School in 2000 after 10 years’
project management experience in the UK public and private sectors. Dr Wallace is author of the EBS
DBA texts
Project Management
and
Alliances and Partnerships.
He is joint author of
Strategic Risk Manage-
ment
and
Mergers and Acquisitions.
He is also either author or joint author of the EBS DBA texts
Introduction to Business Research 1–3.
He is Chair of the EBS DBA Research Committee and has successful-
ly mentored and supervised numerous EBS DBA students.
First Published in Great Britain in 2002.
Roberts, Wallace 2002, 2003, 2004, 2014
The rights of Professor Alexander Roberts and Dr William Wallace to be identified as Authors of this
Work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
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Contents
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Module 1
Introduction
1.1
What Is This Course All About?
1.2
What Is a Project?
1.3
What Is Project Management?
1.4
Project Management Characteristics
1.5
Potential Benefits and Challenges of Project Management
1.6
The History of Project Management
1.7
Project Management Today
Learning Summary
Review Questions
Thought Generators
Module 2
Individual and Team Issues
2.1
Introduction
2.2
The Project Manager
2.3
The Project Team
2.4
Project Team Staffing Profile and Operation
2.5
The Project Team Lifecycle
2.6
Project Team Motivation
2.7
Project Team Communications
2.8
Project Team Stress
2.9
Conflict Identification and Resolution
Learning Summary
Review Questions
Thought Generators
Module 3
Project Risk Management
3.1
3.2
3.3
3.4
3.5
3.6
Introduction
Background to Risk
The Human Cognitive Process
Risk Handling and Control
Types of Risk
Risk Conditions and Decision Making
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