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Articles from project management reference books

This database contains details ofsome 400 good quality project management articles, selected from project management reference books. The articles have been chosen for their quality in particular areas of project management and are not necessarily comprehensive. It should be noted that not all references come from books that are entirely devoted to project management. Some come from early works which should assist the student who is searching for early references to particular topics

Latest developments

March 2007

Articles from a further 20 project management reference books have been added to the database

General details

The reader may select book articles by title or author, for example, a search on 'Pinto' gives the following book articles:

Title	Author
"Leadership, Motivation, and the Project Manager"	Slevin P & Pinto J	select
"Power, influence and negotiation in Project Management "	Magenau JM & Pinto JK	select
An overview of behavioural issues in project management	Slevin DP and Pinto JK	select
Critical success factors in effective project Management	Pinto J & Slevin DP	select
Project Scope Management	Pinto J	select
Strategic Project Management	Pinto J	select

Pressing 'select' on any one of these gives the relevant bibliographic data:

Title	"Leadership, Motivation, and the Project Manager"
Author	Slevin P & Pinto J
Category 1	People
Category 2	Leadership
Book	Project Management Handbook 2nd Edition
Published Date	1988
Page Reference	Section 29 pp 739 - 770
Publish Reference	Van Nostrand Reinhold ISBN 0 442 22114 2

The database may be searched using keywords to identify project management book articles in particular areas of project management. For example, a search using the primary keyword area 'People' and then the secondary keyword 'leadership' yields the following results:

Title	Author
On being a manager and a leader	"Rees D, Turner JR & Tampoe M"	select
Project Leadership	Caldwell DF and Posner BZ	select
Leadership	Carpenter B	select
Leading	Field M & Keller L	select
Leadership & Ethics	Marchewka JT	select
Management & leadership in project environments	Maylor H	select
Managing and Leading	Partington D	select
"Leadership, Motivation, and the Project Manager"	Slevin P & PintoK	select

Clicking 'select' then gives the bibliographic information as above.

The primary and secondary key words used to search for references taken from books are the same as for the glossary of project management terms