Páginas: 382
ISBN: 0750658436 (ELS)
Overview:

- Thoroughly revised and updated, this book is now a comprehensive resource for project managers

- Written by a well-known and authoritative author

- A recommended resource for the Association of Project Management courses

This book covers all the ?hard topics? in project management. Fully revised and updated, it describes the latest project management systems that use critical path methods. A detailed examination of one widely used system illustrates the general characteristics of modern project planning software. The book includes worked examples of project management in action. Written for Project Managers, Contract Managers, Planning Engineers, and postgraduate students, this fully comprehensive text covers all key topics associated with modern Project Management methods. It also includes a typical project (Prototype Motor Car), which incorporates most of the topics set out in the text.


Contents:

Project organisation
Basic principles
Arithmetical analysis
Graphic analysis, milestones, and LoB
Computer analysis float
Simple examples
Progress reporting
The case for manual analysis
The structure of the network
Subdivision of blocks
The design stage
The construction stage
Project management and planning
Network applications outside the construction industry
Networks and claims
Resource loading
Cash flow forecasting
Cost control and EVA
Worked examples
Hornet Windmill
Abbreviations used in Project Management
Project stages and sequence.
Albert, Lester