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Project management demystified : today's tools and techniques / Geoff Reiss.

By: Reiss, Geoff, 1945-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Spon, 1995Edition: 2nd Rev. ed.Description: [224]p ; 23cm + pbk.ISBN: 0419207503 (m); 9780419207504.Subject(s): Industrial project management | Business and Management | Project management | Management and Business AdministrationDDC classification: 658.404 REI
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This book explains the many techniques which have been developed to help you manage projects successfully using very clear objectives within a commercial environment. Examples are drawn from construction, civil engineering, product launches, publishing, computer hardware and software, scientific projects and aerospace.

Previous title: Project Management Demystified.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-216) and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction
  • Setting the stage
  • Project management centres on avoiding problems
  • The invisible project manager
  • Project management is an emerging profession
  • Getting the words in the right order
  • Introduction to project management
  • What is project management?
  • What is project planning?
  • How do you project plan?
  • Nine steps to a successful project
  • The scope of the project and its objectives
  • Defining the project
  • Changes to the project
  • Establishing key dates
  • Evaluation of potential risks
  • The cost/time/quality triangle
  • The spectrum of projects
  • The need for planning
  • Project planning
  • The bar chart versus network analysis
  • Network analysis - a primer
  • Activity-on-arrow plans
  • The precedence convention
  • Choosing the tasks
  • Drawing up the plan
  • A fly on the wall
  • Resource management
  • Resource definition
  • Resource allocation
  • Resource aggregation
  • Resource aggravation
  • Resource levelling
  • Resource smoothing
  • Resource hierarchies
  • Resource calendars
  • Money management
  • Progress monitoring and control
  • Concepts
  • Cost monitoring
  • Reporting
  • Computers and other boxes with many buttons
  • PERT - a potted history
  • Hardware and software
  • Types of software
  • Some words of advice
  • Advanced critical-path topics
  • Work breakdown structure and organizational breakdown structure
  • Merging plans, boiler plating, or task processing
  • Hammocks
  • Calendars
  • Constraint dates
  • Negative floats
  • Subprojects
  • Claims
  • The people issues
  • The role of the project manager
  • The classification of people
  • Decision making
  • Motivation
  • Choosing project-planning software
  • Hardware
  • Software criteria
  • Major software suppliers
  • Risk management
  • Qualitative risk
  • Quantitative risk
  • Case study: The British Library
  • Contingency and insurance
  • Terminology Definitions
  • Alternative definitions
  • Further reading
  • Index