Project Management from Foundations to Career Success is a comprehensive professional textbook designed for students, lecturers, practicing project managers, entrepreneurs, business professionals, and anyone seeking to build a successful career in project management.
Across 18 comprehensive chapters and more than 600 professionally formatted pages, the book takes you from the foundations of project management to practical planning, execution, monitoring, control, Agile approaches, artificial intelligence, and career development.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
• Project management foundations, principles, and methodologies
• Project initiation, planning, scheduling, and execution
• Scope, cost, quality, resource, and risk management
• Stakeholder engagement and professional communication
• Leadership, teamwork, conflict management, and motivation
• Project monitoring, control, and closing
• Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and hybrid project management
• Artificial intelligence and emerging technologies in project management
• Practical application within Nigerian and African business environments
• Real-world case studies, examples, tools, and exercises
• Career development and professional certification pathways, including PMP, CAPM, and PRINCE2 Project Management
WHO IS THIS BOOK FOR?
This textbook is suitable for university and college students, lecturers and educators, aspiring project managers, practicing project professionals, entrepreneurs, business managers, consultants, and professionals preparing to advance their project management careers.
This is more than a textbook. It is a practical professional reference designed to help you plan effectively, lead confidently, deliver successful projects, and grow your career.