Preface

The primary purpose of this text is to provide professors and students with an open-source textbook that can be used in an advanced management courses incorporating PMBOK 7th edition. The objective is to develop a concise, widely applicable open-source textbook that can be used in the for-profit and non-profit sectors. For this reason, the term “organization” is used instead of “business” and “corporation.”

In addition, the author has intentionally left out examples from fields of practice, such as business, engineering, and information technology, in order to ensure this text has universal applicability. The intention is to allow students and instructors to work with their own program-specific case studies, exercises, and assessments to fulfil the appropriate learning objectives.

The material in the text was obtained from a variety of sources. Sources are found in the reference section at the end of each chapter as well as in the Acknowledgement section.

I welcome your feedback and would love to know how you are using the materials. Please send your feedback to:

Florence Daddey – Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration at Douglas College daddeyf@douglascollege.ca

Version 1. Released on December 30, 2021.