Product Description

As the market-leading textbook on the subject, Project Management: The Managerial Process, 4e is distinguished by its balanced treatment of both the technical and behavioral issues in project management as well as by its coverage of a broad range of industries to which project management principles can be applied. It focuses on how project management is integral to the organization as a whole. The 4th edition reflects the latest changes found in the practice. Other texts discuss the topics covered in this text but they do not view oversight as the project manager’s operating environment, as does Gray/Larson.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #48534 in Books
• Published on: 2007-08-15
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 589 pages

About the Author
Clifford F. Gray is professor emeritus of management at the College of Business, Oregon State University. He continues to teach undergraduate and graduate project management courses overseas and in the United States; he has personally taught more than 100 executive development seminars and workshops. His research and consulting interests have been divided equally between operations management and project management; he has published numerous articles in these areas, plus a text on project management. He has also conducted research with colleagues in the International Project Management Association. Cliff has been a member of the Project Management Institute since 1976 and was one of the founders of the Portland, Oregon, chapter. He has been the president of Project Management International, Inc. (a training and consulting firm specializing in project management) since 1977. He received his B.A. in economics and management from Millikin University, M.B.A. from Indiana University, and doctorate in operations management from the College of Business, University of Oregon.

Erik W. Larson is professor of project management in the department of management, marketing, and international business at the College of Business, Oregon State University. He teaches executive, graduate, and undergraduate courses on project management, organizational behavior, and leadership. His research and consulting activities focus on project management. He has published numerous articles on matrix management, product development, and project partnering. He has been a member of the Portland, Oregon, chapter of the Project Management Institute since 1984. In 1995 he worked as a Fullbright scholar with faculty at the Krakow Academy of Economics on modernizing Polish business education. In 2005 he was a visiting professor at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. He received a B.A. in psychology from Claremont McKenna College and a Ph.D. in management from State University of New York at Buffalo. He is a certified project management professional (PMP).

Customer Reviews

A Helpless Book That Needs Revisions
Can't get any new ideas or techniques from this book. Very basic
and crude.

Project management? More like project futility!
The author is too eager to impress you with his knowledge and ability to build confusing and complex sentences. I've found I need to read a chapter several times to get anything out of it. Even after several readings, taking notes, I'm not sure what is going on. The book provides allot of chaff with very few "Deliverables".

Unless you are already an experienced project manager looking for a new angle this one is better left on the shelf.

Too bad there isn't a zero star rating, this book really deserves it...

Project Management - The Managerial Process
The book is great, easy to read, and comprehensive. I was disappointed however, that for the price of the book plus CD (of MS Project) that it was only a trial version. Otherwise the package is good: there is an additional CD that comes with the book that has video tutorials showing you how to use MS Project. My advice would be to buy just the book by itself, then purchase the student/trial version of MS Project which is about $100 separately, that way you have MS Project permanently.