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Some changes are minor and incremental, designed to clarify and reduce confusion. Other changes are significant. They represent new developments in the field or better ways of teaching project management principles.

Below are major changes to the seventh edition. Overall the text addresses the major questions and challenges the authors have encountered over their 60 combined years of teaching project management and consulting with practicing project managers in domestic and foreign environments. These questions include: What is the strategic role of projects in contemporary organizations?

How are projects prioritized? What organizational and managerial styles will improve chances of project success? How do project managers orchestrate the complex network of relationships involving vendors, subcontractors, project team members, senior management, functional managers, and customers that affect project success? What factors contribute to the development of a high-performance project team? What project management system can be set up to gain some measure of control?

How do managers prepare for a new international project in a foreign culture? Project managers must deal with all these concerns to be effective.

All of these issues and problems represent linkages to an integrative project management view. The chapter content of the text has been placed within an overall framework that integrates these topics in a holistic manner. Cases and snapshots are included from the experiences of practicing managers. The future for project managers appears to be promising. Larson, Clifford F. Our motivation in writing this text continues to be to provide a realistic, socio-technical view of project management.

In the past, textbooks on project management focused almost exclusively on the tools and processes used to manage projects and not the human dimension. Project Management.