Managing Projects for Success

A Trilogy
1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-7277-3497-6
Verlag: Thomas Telford Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 628 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 189 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 1196 g

Managing Projects for success is a how to do it book of considerable value to practitioners and students alike. It provides the challenge of theory application through a series of exercises and is comprehensively illustrated.
Managing Projects for Success equips the reader with specialist skills that can be immediately applied in practice and is written in three inter-related parts - Part 1: The framework; Part 2: Planning for control and Part 3: The tool kit - to promote clarity of understanding and study.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hamilton, A. (Angus)

Hamilton, Albert

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Bauingenieurwesen Bauingenieurwesen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Bauindustrie, Baugewerbe

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: The framework

Change: using it to our advantage
Management: the means to transform
Systems theory
Systems mapping
Projects: one-time events
Project management process
Project scope management and time management
Project cost management and communication management
Project risk management and procurement management
Project human resources management and quality management
References
Part 2: Planning for control

Planning the project
Scheduling methods
Network scheduling
Precedence diagramming and scheduling
Resource allocation
Least-code scheduling
Program evaluation and review technique
Work progress and updating
Project time and cost control
Tracking and analysing delays
References
Part 3: The Tool Kit

Conceptualising the project
Economic evaluation and funding
Defining the project
The value process
Concurrent engineering and configuration management
Risk indentification, analysis and allocation
Cost estimation methods
Procuring goods and services
The project team and its management
Implementation and close-out
References