NOTE: I am no longer printing copies of the 5th edition (or earlier editions) per PMI’s request. I will leave this info online for people with the 5th edition until the end of 2021.
Quizzes
- Interactive multiple-choice quizzes: Click on the chapter name to go to that quiz.
Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 - Interactive true/false quizzes:
Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10
Video Highlights
Chapter 1
- PMI Project of the Year Awards: Read the page to find a few videos of award-winning projects (3 minutes 53 seconds – Prairie Waters Project in Colorado, 5 minutes 48 seconds – National Ignition Facility in California)
- History of Project Management (music only) (5 minutes 26 seconds)
- Author’s Perspective by Mark Kozak-Holland (5 minutes 5 seconds)
Chapter 2
- Maximise the Power of Your Brain – Tony Buzan on mind mapping (5 minutes 39 seconds)
- How to Make a Mind Map – The Basics – McGrercy Consultants (2 minutes 52 seconds)
- How To Make A Mind Map – Version 1 by ukbraintrainer ( 2 minutes 55 seconds)
- MindView 4 – Mind Mapping Quickstart Tutorial (15 minutes 43 seconds)
Chapter 3
- Scrum in 10 Minutes (8 minutes 52 seconds)
- Intro to Kanban in Under 5 Minutes (4 minutes 9 seconds)
Chapter 4
- MindView Quick Start (10 minutes 40 seconds)
- MindView Project Management (16 minutes 44 seconds)
Chapter 5
- Association for Project Management (APM) Learning Legacy for London Olympics (several videos on this site)
Chapter 6
- Titanic Movie Trailer (4 minutes 10 seconds)
- Titanic Project Management Blunders (19 minutes 12 seconds)
Chapter 7
- Jimmy Kimmel Handsome Men’s Club (9 minutes 26 seconds)
- Dan Pink’s Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us (10 minutes 48 seconds)
Chapter 8
- Myki embarrasses the Government (2 minutes 4 seconds)
- Not so smart (1 minute 42 seconds)
- Police could be called in to control myki barriers (3 minutes 19 seconds)
Chapter 9
- Challenger disaster live on CNN (2 minutes 24 seconds)
- Challenger’s lessons still echo 25 years later (2 minutes 23 seconds)
Chapter 10
- Lecture of a lifetime (8 minutes 52 seconds)
Additional Videos
- Lots of short training videos at projectmanager.com
- The presentation skills of Steve Jobs (7 minutes)
- An introduction to project management using the great pyramids as an example by Dr. Linda Henderson (6 minutes 14 seconds)
- Here’s a great “solution” to the Project Management Videos case study in my third edition. Students at Weber State University acted out a silent film entitled, “If there were a project manager in fairy tale times.” You can see their work here.
- Link to a youtube playlist for my new book on healthcare project management
Notes:
- Instructors can access more sample tests and Jeopardy-like games on the instructor site
- See the home page for the templates and Microsoft Project files
- Click the Links tab for links to other resources.
Corrections: Very early printings had a few more errors, but those were fixed by the end of June, 2015. Below are the corrections found since then, which have been corrected in the revised fifth edition in May 2016. Let me know if you find more errors. Thanks.
- p. 40, second para. Line 7. Delete text after “follows:”
- p. 48, first para. Change $2,316 to $686,180 and $3,201 to $$1,063,514. (I forgot that I had changed Figure 2-4. Also, the formula should say npv not just nv in Figure 2-4.)
- p. 49, first full para. The last number should be 18%, not 27%.
- p. 60., para labeled 5. Change Figure 2-11 reference to Figure 2-10.
- p. 61. Change label at the bottom to Figure 2-11 versus 2-12.
- p. 118, line 3, change requirement to requirements
- p. 234, Exercise 3. Figure 6-8 not 5-8.
- p. 331, Exercise 2. e. Figure 8-5 not 7-4.
- p. 331, Exercise 4. Figure 8-13 not 8-12.
- p. 422 of the Revised fifth edition, Figures A-29 and A-30 should show Task 15 as a summary task.
- p. 428 of the Revised fifth edition, Figure A-36 should show the predecessors for tasks 22 and 23.
Comment on Appendix A for Project 2016 (thanks to Robert Wright and his students from Okanagan College for reporting this problem): On p. 426 (p. 37 if you purchased just the Appendix A book), Step 5, when you enter -50% into the lag column of the Task Information dialog box for Task 5, an “e” may be automatically added, resulting in “2FS-50e%.” Due to the “e”, the software won’t properly calculate the lead time. The workaround is to type “2FS-50%” directly into the Predecessors column for Task 5. The same applies for task 10.
An Introduction to Project Management 