Project Decisions, 2nd Edition: The Art and Science

This new edition gives project managers practical methods and tools to make the right decisions while juggling multiple objectives, risks and uncertainties, and stakeholders. Project management requires you to navigate a maze of multiple and complex decisions that are an everyday part of the job. To be effective, you must know how to make rational choices with your projects, what processes can help to improve these choices, and what tools are available to help you with decision-making. An entertaining and easy-to-read guide to a structured project decision-making process, Project Decisions will help you identify risks and perform basic quantitative and qualitative risk and decision analyses. Lev Virine and Michael Trumper use their understanding of basic human psychology to show you how to use event chain methodology, establish creative business environments, and estimate project time and costs. Each phase of the process is described in detail, including a review of both its psychological aspects and quantitative methods.

About the Author

Bob Lewis has been writing and consulting in business information technology for over twenty years. He is a popular columnist and blogger, writing for publications such as InfoWorld and CIO and maintaining his own blog Keep the Joint Running. Lewis is the author of numerous publications, including Bare Bones Project Management. Dave Kaiser is a talented CIO, with more than thirty years of diverse IT experience in insurance, finance, technology, retail, and manufacturing.