A Practical Guide for Holistic Project Management

A project is executed on behalf of and by people. In fact it is all about people. This book offers an holistic approach of project management which not only describes items such as risk management in a very practical way but also pays attention to the project impact and psychological part.

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Project management is a multidisciplinary profession requiring not only knowledge and experience but also a lot of personal skills. A project is defined as 'A temporary organisation that is created for the purpose of delivering one or more business products according to an agreed business case.' (Prince2 [1]).

A project is executed on behalf of and by people. In fact it is all about people. This book is a holistic approach of project management which not only describes items such as risk management in a very practical way but also pays attention to the project impact and psychological part. Furthermore the challenges regarding outsourcing are described in order to reduce the amount of ‘surprises’.