Project Management Today --Characteristics of Projects -- The Project Life Cycle -- Project Management in Action: A Project Management Sampler -- The Project Manager -- The Age of Project Management -- Project Management in Action: The Best Wireless Phone on the Market -- Project Management Today--An Integrative Approach -- Alignmening of Projects with Organization Strategies -- Projects and the Strategic Plan -- The Strategic Management Process: An Overview -- Project Management in Action: Sample Strategies to Recapture Market Growth -- Absence of a Priority System Linked to Strategy Creates Problems -- Project Management in Action: The SAS Turnaround -- Moving to an Effective Project Selection System -- A Generic Project Portfolio Management System -- Project Management in Action: Y2K Projects -- Assessing the Effectiveness of the Priority System over the Long Haul--The Balanced Scorecard Model -- Organization: Structure and Culture -- Organizing Projects within the Functional Organization -- Organizing Projects as Dedicated Teams -- Organizing Projects within a Matrix Arrangement -- Project Management in Action: Projectitis: The Dark Side of Project Teams -- Organizing Projects within Virtual Organizations -- Choosing the Right Project Management Structure -- Project Management in Action: The Project Management Office -- Organizational Culture -- Identifying Cultural Characteristics -- Implications of Organizational Culture for Organizing Projects -- Project Management in Action: Matrix Problems at DEC -- Defining the Project.