Welcome! I’m Kathy Schwalbe, Ph.D., PMP, and mother of three! My passion is educating project leaders to make the world a better place. You can find information about all three of my books on this site. Below are links to purchase them, and the tabs above provide info for each as well as other resources.

Quick links:

• #1 seller in agile project management! Order An Introduction to Project Management, Seventh Edition (based on the 2021 and 2017 PMBOK® Guides and 2023 Process Groups: A Practice Guide by PMI) from amazon.com and and other amazon sites. Read a preview of the first chapter.
• Note that as an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Buy an ebook of my 7th edition for as little as $38 from vitalsource.com and from redshelf.com.
• Order Healthcare Project Management, Third Edition (same as above with new prologue and Appendix). Buy an ebook for as little as $38 from vitalsource.com and from redshelf.com.
• Order IT Project Management, Ninth Edition.  Read ITPM 9e Chapter 1 here. Note: Cengage is NOT publishing a new edition of my IT PM book. Consider moving to An Introduction to Project Management, Seventh Edition. It includes lots of agile info and a teaching case on a software project.
• Now FREE:  A Brief Guide to Microsoft Project Professional 2016
• 2018pmtemplates Download lots of free templates with this one zipped file (updated April 2018)
• more_templates (zip file with modified templates created by Rhett Smith, Adjunct instructor at Appalachian State University, added May 30, 2019). Feel free to modify templates to meet your needs.
• Note: My books are derivative works of A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide).
• PMP exam information
• Book site for An Introduction to Project Management
• Book site for Healthcare Project Management
• Cengage site for IT Project Management and other Cengage books
• Cengage customer support link
• Link to Project Online info. Consider using Basecamp or Jira or other tools. These two are totally online and free with no expiration.