Published here October 2010.

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Book Structure

This book has ten chapters and three appendices arranged as follows:

Preface

Acknowledgements

 

1.

Good Decision-Making: The Key to Project Success

 

2.

Managerial Decision-Making

 

3.

Decisions and the Project Management Life Cycle

 

4.

Overview of Decision-Making

 

5.

Project Management Decisions

 

6.

Framing the Decision

 

7.

Generating Decision Alternatives

 

8.

Analyzing the Alternatives in Terms of Values and Uncertainty

 

9.

Handling Risk and Uncertainty

 

10.

Training Project Managers as Decision Makers

Appendixes

 

A.

Project Success Case Studies

 

B.

Project Management Decisions

 

C.

An Introduction to Decision Trees

References

Additional Reading

Each chapter starts out with a one-page overview of the contents of the chapter and a list of the ensuing sections. It ends with a summary of what the chapter contained. Relevant tables, diagrams and case studies support the text.

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