Effective Project Management: Traditional, Agile, Extreme

Key differences between 7th and 6th editions

• Period between current and previous editions: 2 years (2013 vs 2011).
• Effective Project Management Seventh Ed. is organized into 5 parts containing 18 chapters.
• Chapter 2: New section on overcoming problems in project management.
• Chapter 3:
• Updated the Process Group discussion to reflect the PMBOK Guide, 5th edition
• Section on Knowledge Areas introduces stakeholder management and identifies seven main types of stakeholders.
• Former Chapter 10 "Traditional Project Management" has been removed.
• New Chapter 12 covers:
• Linear, incremental, iterative, adaptive, and extreme PMLC Models
• Most significant project management challenges and strategies to avoid or mitigate them.
• Completely new Chapter 18 "A Practical Project-Based Model of the Enterprise" (instead of former Chapter 18 "Managing the Professional Development of Project Teams") introduces for the first time a project-based model of the enterprise. The chapter covers:
• The business environment
• Six-phase linear model of Enterprise project portfolio management (EPPM)
• Workforce & Business Development Center (case study)
• For more details on content changes in the EPM7e vs EPM6e see above table of contents comparison.