Book Title: Human-Centered Project Management

Book Description

Human-Centered Project Management: A Systems Approach to Community Projects is an open educational resource designed for students, educators, and community leaders who want to use project management as a tool for meaningful change.

Rather than focusing solely on schedules, budgets, and methodologies, this book presents project management as a human-centered discipline grounded in stakeholder engagement, communication, systems thinking, and informed decision-making. Readers learn how to identify community challenges, define project goals and scope, engage stakeholders, select appropriate project management approaches, develop schedules and budgets, manage risks, and create communication plans.

Organized around a seven-step project planning process, the book combines practical examples, reflection activities, visual models, and real-world applications to help learners move from broad ideas to actionable project plans. Throughout the text, project management is presented not as a collection of isolated tools, but as an interconnected system that helps people work together to create positive outcomes.

While developed to support introductory project management courses, the book may also be used in community engagement, innovation, leadership, entrepreneurship, service-learning, and interdisciplinary project-based learning environments.