Acknowledgements

This open textbook has been adapted by Debra Patterson, in partnership with the OER Design Studio and the Library Learning Commons at Fanshawe College in London, Ontario This work is part of the FanshaweOpen learning initiative and is made available through a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License unless otherwise noted.

Attribution

This book is an adaptation of Essentials of Project Management by Adam Farag is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

Other resources have been incorporated into the book and are listed in the references section at the end of the book. Changes from the adapted work can be found in the Changes From Adapted Source.

Collaborators

To the students in the Business Administration-Human Resources program at Fanshawe College (listed below) who participated in this research process for this book, it is deeply appreciated.  Your exemplary research, effort and interest in completing assignments that align with the Human Resources perspective has enriched the new book.

• Brenden Bellan, Christopher Fink, Dylan Gosselin, Tammy Hughes, Chantelle Johnson, Alysha Koster, Hillary Maier, Nathaniel Medeiros, Vanessa Osei, Bailey Pavey, David Perez Medina, Jillian Racine, Larissa Trachy, Paige Vandendriessche

To all those who helped to create this book, your effort and energy helped to adapt and refine the new book that offers a unique lens of Human Resources and Project Management.  Thank you to Diana Sinatra-Araujo, Coordinator who shared the vision of the new book; Tarek Ibrahim, Program Manager who provided continuous support to move the project forward, and to the OER Studio team who worked tirelessly to ensure a high-quality adaptation became a reality.

This project was a collaboration between the author and the team in the OER Design Studio at Fanshawe.  The following staff and students in the Studio were involved in the creation of this project:

• Shauna Roch – Project Manager, Instructional Designer
• Lavisha Asija – Instructional Designer
• Meghan Hallam-Wood – Ancillary Developer
• Davandra Earle – Copyeditor
• Robert Armstrong – Graphic Design 

Reviewers

• Lianne Gallie, MSc, CHRL, Professor, Fanshawe College, Lawrence Kinlin School of Business
• Don McMurry, Professor, Fanshawe College, Lawrence Kinlin School of Business