Project Workflow Management: A Business Process Approach

Foreword by industry legend Harold Kerzner!

Project Workflow Management illustrates a completely unique step-by-step workflow guiding approach, which significantly simplifies project management activities by enforcing execution of all required processes on time, and redirecting to an alternative path in the event of issues. It enables readers with no prior project management skills to manage the entire lifecycle of any small to mid-sized project, and equips experienced project managers with a detailed map to the successful management of large complex projects and programs.

KEY FEATURES:

• Describes project management methods, tips, and techniques, teaching readers the practical knowledge required to manage projects hands-on from scratch, up to delivering the completed and tested product or service to the client
• Prompts and instructs users in every step of the project lifecycle from day one to project closing, while constantly performing qualitative assessments of outcomes
• Explains and illustrates project management business processes and their flows using over 40 process diagrams
• Enables organizations to more easily implement project management processes, including green project management, while minimizing costs and ensuring product quality

About the Authors

Dan Epstein has over twenty five years of experience in the project management field and has worked for several major US and Canadian corporations. He also spent four years teaching university students project management and several software engineering subjects. Throughout his career, Mr. Epstein managed multiple complex interdependent projects and programs around the globe. This subject matter expert possesses multi-industry business analysis, process reengineering, best practices, and professional training development experience and a technical background in a wide array of technologies. Dan has a Masters Degree in Engineering, a Masters Certificate in Project Management from George Washington University, and a Professional Engineer certification from the Canadian Association of Professional Engineers. He is a published author and has been a keynote speaker and educator at the PMI sponsored International Project Management Symposium.

Rich Maltzman, PMP, is the winner of the prestigious PMI Cleland Award for literature in 2011 for a book he co-author of entitled Green Project Management. He has published numerous articles and also professionally developed project management professional (PMP) Exam prep courseware and books. Mr. Maltzman has been an engineer at a major telecom since 1978, a project management director since 1988, and has directed large telecom projects such as the 1996 Summer Olympics. In his global PMO work, Rich has been responsible for the learning and professional advancement (career path, competency models, accreditation, credentialing, training) for about 2500 project managers. He is an active speaker and has also focused on consulting and teaching, having developed curricula and/or taught at the Boston University Corporate Education Center, Merrimack College, Northern Essex Community College, and the University of Massachusetts. Rich earned a BSEE from the University of Massachusetts, an MSIE from Purdue University, and Masters Certificates in Business Management from Wharton (University of Pennsylvania) and INSEAD (France). He obtained his Masters certificate in project management from Stevens Institute of Technology.