Projects of very different natures are continuously changing the world in which we live. Project management offers the right instruments to solve the multitude of problems that arise during the life of a project from its beginning to its completion. No space satellite could be designed, no computer program developed, no skyscraper built, and no company organized efficiently without PM. In honor of the 65th birthday of R.W. Gutsch, 29 authors from 16 countries have contributed to this publication. It covers the fundamentals of project management as well as the PM techniques and software, PM organization and human factors and applications in effectively managing projects. The contributions demonstrate the enormous progress that has taken place in PM within the past years in a language and style which is understandable for project managers in both industrialized and developing countries.

Detailed Contents.- Fundamentals of Project Management.- The Fundamentals of Project Management.- Change and Usefulness of Project Management.- Project Management Paradigm - A System Oriented Model of Project Management.- Project Management within the Systems Context.- Managing the Project Environment.- The Cultural Dimension of Project Management.- The Viking Approach to Project Management.- Project Management and Corporate Strategy.- Project Management Techniques and PM-Software.- Project Objectives Identification and Proper Formulation for Project Success.- The Evolution of Management Tools and the Efficiency of Produkt Development & Engineering.- Operations Research and Project Management: Past, Present and Future.- Development of Methods in Project Management - A Subject for Theorists Only?.- Experiences from a New Logic in Project Management.- The Application of Knowledge in Project-Management.- Control Perspectives on Project Management.- Developing Knowledge Based Systems in Construction Management.- Spontaneity or Planning Deficits in Systems Selection and Application of Project Software.- Management by Projects - A Turn Away from or towards Hierarchy.- Project Management Organization and Human Factors.- Project Team Planning: The Need, Methods and Benefits.- Training.- Management of Intersted Parties.- Co-Development - A Future for Inter-Organizational Product and Project Development.- The Key Role of the Client or Owner in the Management of Construction Projects.- Role of Senior Management in Developmental Projects.- Application of Project-Management in Selected Countries.- Project Management as Perceived from Ancient Egyptian Projects.- Project Management in Czechoslovakia.- Project Management in Developing Countries.- The Project as a Mode of Workin Sweden - From Technical Theinking to Management Thinking.- The Autors.