Project Workflow Management ― A Business Process Approach

Epstein, a project manager, and Maltzman, a project manager, consultant, and teacher, show project managers how to manage projects using the project management process workflow framework. They describe a step-by-step workflow guiding approach that simplifies project management activities in the entire project life cycle by prompting execution of all required processes on time and redirecting to an alternative path when issues arise. They present project management as a single multithreaded business workflow that has a set of detailed processes with logical decision making, control point tests, and loops. They describe the requirements, planning/high-level design, construction/tracking, and closing/testing frames and their processes, techniques, methods, tools, templates, and checklists. No bibliography is provided. Annotation c2014 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Dan Epstein has over twenty five years of experience in the project management field and has worked for several major US and Canadian corporations. He also spent four years teaching university students project management and several software engineering subjects. Throughout his career, Mr. Epstein managed multiple complex inter-dependent projects and programs around the globe. This subject matter expert possesses multi-industry business analysis, process reengineering, best practices, and professional training development experience and a technical background in a wide array of technologies. Dan has a Master's Degree in Engineering, a Master's Certificate in Project Management from George Washington University, and a Professional Engineer certification from the Canadian Association of Professional Engineers. He is a published author and has been a keynote speaker and educator at the PMIR sponsored International Project Management Symposium. Rich Maltzman, PMP, was the winner of PMI's prestigious Cleland Award for literature in 2011 for a book he co-authored entitled Green Project Management. He has published numerous articles and also professionally developed project management professional (PMPR) Exam prep courseware and books. Mr. Maltzman has been an engineer at a major telecom since 1978, a project management director since 1988, and has directed large telecom projects such as the 1996 Summer Olympics. In his global PMO work, Rich has been responsible for the learning and professional advancement (career path, competency models, accreditation, credentialing, training) for about 2500 project managers. He is an active speaker and has also focused on consulting and teaching, having developed curricula and/or taught at the Boston University Corporate Education Center, Merrimack College, Northern Essex Community College, and the University of Massachusetts. Rich earned a BSEE from the University of Massachusetts, an MSIE from Purdue University, and Masters Certificates in Business Management from Wharton (University of Pennsylvania) and INSEAD (France). He obtained his Masters certificate in project management from Stevens Institute of Technology.