Tom KENDRICK - 101 project management problems and how to solve them : practical advice for handling real-world project challenges

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kendrick, Tom.

101 project management problems and how to solve them : practical advice for handling real-world project challenges / Tom Kendrick.

p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN-13: 978-0-8144-1557-3 (pbk.)
ISBN-10: 0-8144-1557-1 (pbk.)

1. Project management. I. Title. II. Title: One hundred one project management problems and how to solve them. III. Title: One hundred and one project management problems and how to solve them.

HD69.P75K4618 2011
658.404dc22

2010015878

2011 Tom Kendrick
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To all the good project managers I have worked with,
from whom I have learned a great deal.
Also to all the bad project managers I have worked with,
from whom I have learned even more.