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Project Management: A Managerial Approach
by Jack R. Meredith, Samuel J., Jr. Mantel
from Wiley
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 
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Worthless book 
I don't recommend this book. The two authors don't blend well. The terminology seems to constantly change and never is consistent with PMI's PMBoK. Our professor will not be using this text again.
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Disappointing for a Seasoned PM
Leave this book in the academic community. Ignore it in the real world PM office.
This book puts greater emphasis on academic PM babble than it does on real world project management necessities. As such, the book de-emphasises many important points that are necessary to run a project in the real world.
The critical path method in this book suffers from an -off by one- error. Check the PMBOK (2000) for verification.
The authors made many references to the work of others which made the book... more info
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"Project Management A Managerial Approach" adds depth and perspective to commercial construction management 
Commerical construction project management frequently focuses on repetition of very similar projects. Approaches and patterns of execution for new projects are frequently selected without consideration of changed conditions or new possibilities. " Project management" adds thought provoking new material that assists a broader perspective.
In the case studies, there were many examples from the manufactoring sector, and the examples in the service sector tended to have at least some relation to the "... more info
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Suffices, but expect to supplement 
This book does not use enough detail to explain some of the concepts that turned out to be important in the class I was using it for. A prime example is its treatment of Earned Value Analysis, in which it is not made clear how some numbers are reached (PV, for example). Further, it really seems to be just a very expensive M$ Project manual. If you can avoid this book, do so.
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