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Project management / by Dennis Lock.

By: Lock, Dennis.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007Edition: 9th ed.Description: xxii, 520 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9780566087721; 0566087723; 9780566087691.Subject(s): Project management | Work breakdown structure | Business and Management | Project managementDDC classification: 658.404 LOC Summary: This bestselling book covers the project management process from initial appraisal to closedown, using methods that range from simple charts to powerful computer systems. The projects are drawn from a wide range of industries.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This bestselling book covers the project management process from initial appraisal to closedown, using methods that range from simple charts to powerful computer systems. The projects are drawn from a wide range of industries.

Previous ed.: 2003.

CD-ROM in back pocket.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 503-505) and index.

This bestselling book covers the project management process from initial appraisal to closedown, using methods that range from simple charts to powerful computer systems. The projects are drawn from a wide range of industries.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Preface to the ninth edition
  • 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 breakdown 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 re-usable 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
  • Bibliography
  • Index

Excerpt provided by Syndetics

Dennis Lock's masterly exposition of the principles and practice of project management has been pre-eminent in its field for four decades. It explains the entire project management process in great detail, demonstrating techniques ranging from the simplest of charts to sophisticated computer applications. Everything is reinforced throughout with case examples and diagrams. The text has been completely restructured and largely rewritten for this ninth edition, so that the sequence now follows even more closely the life-cycle of a typical project from its earliest definition to final close-out. Case examples and diagrams have all been reviewed, updated, augmented or replaced. Excerpted from Project Management (Ebk) by Dennis Lock All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.