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Alleman, Glen B.

Performance-based project management : increasing the probability of project success / Glen B. Alleman.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-8144-3330-0 (hardcover) — ISBN 0-8144-3330-8 (hardcover) — ISBN 978-0-8144-3331-7 (ebook)

1. Project management. I. Title.

HD69.P75A455 2014

658.4’04—dc23

2013038637

© 2014 Glen B. Alleman

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