Financially Focused Project Management

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Summary: The Final Step in the Evolution of Project Management
Review: FFPM (Financially Focused Project Management) incorporates all the essential elements of effective project management science with the added benefit of ensuring all activities benefit the bottom line.

This book goes beyond the latest "flavor of the month", offering tools and techniques to ensure that projects are completed under budget.

This book is long over due. It's time to put the project management focus were it belongs.... on PROFIT!

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Summary: A solidly presented guide
Review: Financially Focused Project Management by Thomas M. Cappels is a straightforward business guide to saving hundreds of millions of corporate dollars by learning from the best practices of hundreds of successful companies. Individual chapters address accurately and comprehensively assess aspects of project risks, management strategies for the changing technology of the 21st century, proposals and pricing, and more. A solidly presented guide Financially Focused Project Management is filled from cover to cover with practical, applicable, insightful, "hit-the-ground-running", goal-oriented corporate financial management advice.

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Summary: Project Management and MORE
Review: I've been teaching graduate level project management courses for over a decade, and this book covers every important concept. It also provides the added punch of the financial perspective, offering financial tools and concepts which are vital for successful project management. This is the first text I've found that covers this area, and provides so much valuable information.

Students particularly enjoy and easily relate to the clever case studies. Discussion questions at the end of each chapter allow students to apply principles of project management and to share their own experiences and ideas about effective management of differing projects.