There is no profession more interesting or challenging than modern project management. Because of the nature of projects， the project manager will be working in environments where change is occurring， where there is uniqueness to the management， and where time constraints guide the work to be done. Project management has been used for thousands of years with almost all of the projects including some aspect of building. From the pyramids of Egypt to the great cathedrals of Europe， projects invoMng thousands of people and sometimes hundreds of years have been completed.
While there were project managers all throughout history， the formalization of project management did not really begin until the second half of the twentieth century. As large organizations， such as the U. S. military， began to run larger and more expensive projects， there was a need for the discipline and common knowledge base that is the hallmark of a profession. Some sort of passing on of best practices and common language that would make each successive generation of project managers able to have much the same skill set and background information as the previous one was needed to make project management professional.
In 1969， a group was formed that was dedicated to making project management a profession. The Project Management Institute （PMI） was formed in that year and later brought out a book， the Project Management Body of Knowledge or PMBOK that began to codify information concerning the various unique factors of project management.
A validation of the status of the PMBOK came in the year 2000 when the American National Standards Institute declared the PMBOK the official publication of project management and the work was set up as the standard for project management in this country.
PMI instituted a certification test so that there would be a standardization of information and a knowledge base that could be transferred and used by people coming into the project management arena. Because of its very nature， project management is a job that is serendipitous. Most people come to it by chance， not by planned education or career path intention. So the one place that all aspiring project managers can go that has been accepted by ANSI （American National Standards Institute） is the PMI certification test leading to the designation PMP， or Project Management Professional.

魏傳立，男，漢族，1975年7月生，中共黨員，管理學博士學歷、學位、管理科學與工程博士後、教授、碩士生導師，2004年通過全球職業項目經理（PMP）認證考試，具有PMP職業項目經理人資質（證書編號212202）；美國職業經理人協會會員（530902）。2009-2011年國家公派法國貢比涅工程師第1大學COSTCH實驗室博士研究（E-Government）。

孫璐，女，1980年生，哈爾濱商業大學外語學院副教授，東北林業大學英語語言學碩士，上海外國語大學在讀博士，長年從事商務外語教學與研究。

韓莉，女，哈爾濱市衛生學校講師，碩士研究生，英語教育專業，連續多年擔任全國涉外護理英語技能大賽評委等。

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Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Initiation and Planning
Chapter 3 Planning and Execution
Chapter 4 Execution and Control
Chapter 5 Control and Closing
Chapter 6 Professional Conduct and Ethics
Chapter 7 Project Integration Management
Chapter 8 Project Scope Management
Chapter 9 Project Time Management
Chapter 10 Project Cost Management
Chapter 11 Project Quality Management
Chapter 12 Project Human Resources Management
Chapter 13 Project Communications Management
Chapter 14 Project Risk Management
Chapter 15 Project Procurement Management
Appendix A Abbreviations
Appendix B Glossary
Appendix C Exercises and Keys of PMP Certification Exam
Bibliography

There is no profession more interesting or challenging than modern project management. Because of the nature of projects， the project manager will be working in environments where change is occurring， where there is uniqueness to the management， and where time constraints guide the work to be done. Project management has been used for thousands of years with almost all of the projects including some aspect of building. From the pyramids of Egypt to the great cathedrals of Europe， projects invoMng thousands of people and sometimes hundreds of years have been completed.
While there were project managers all throughout history， the formalization of project management did not really begin until the second half of the twentieth century. As large organizations， such as the U. S. military， began to run larger and more expensive projects， there was a need for the discipline and common knowledge base that is the hallmark of a profession. Some sort of passing on of best practices and common language that would make each successive generation of project managers able to have much the same skill set and background information as the previous one was needed to make project management professional.
In 1969， a group was formed that was dedicated to making project management a profession. The Project Management Institute （PMI） was formed in that year and later brought out a book， the Project Management Body of Knowledge or PMBOK that began to codify information concerning the various unique factors of project management.
A validation of the status of the PMBOK came in the year 2000 when the American National Standards Institute declared the PMBOK the official publication of project management and the work was set up as the standard for project management in this country.
PMI instituted a certification test so that there would be a standardization of information and a knowledge base that could be transferred and used by people coming into the project management arena. Because of its very nature， project management is a job that is serendipitous. Most people come to it by chance， not by planned education or career path intention. So the one place that all aspiring project managers can go that has been accepted by ANSI （American National Standards Institute） is the PMI certification test leading to the designation PMP， or Project Management Professional.