01716pamaa2200217 4500 0000048497 20130117090000.0 101216 eng 9780566088056 (pbk.) HD69.P75 LOC 2007 Lock The essentials of project management Dennis Lock. 3rd ed. Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT: Gower, 2007. xii, 204 p.: ill.; 25 cm. BITCUN Includes bibliographical references and index 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 Project management Work breakdown structure www.ashgate.com