Project management

Main Author: Lock
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT: Gower, 2007.
Edition:9th ed.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to project management
  • Factors for project success or failure
  • Defining the project task
  • Estimating the project costs
  • First steps in planning the timescale
  • Financial appraisal and the business plan
  • Risk
  • Project authorization
  • Project organization structures
  • Organization of management change and IT projects
  • Key people in the organization
  • Work breakdon and coding
  • Completing the breakdown structures
  • Detailed planning : an introduction to critical path networks
  • Detailed planning : critical path networks in practice
  • Principles of resource scheduling
  • Scheduling people (and other reusable resources)
  • Scheduling materials
  • Scheduling cash flows
  • Computer applications
  • Managing project start-up
  • Aspects of commercial management
  • Managing procurement
  • Managing progress
  • Managing changes
  • Managing project costs
  • Earned-value analysis and cost reporting
  • Managing multiple projects, programmes and portfolios
  • More advanced or less frequently used techniques
  • Managing project closure