Project management is widely used in the construction industry and is central to planning and controlling time, costs and resources. This book enables readers to perform more effectively, to understand project planning and control procedures and to gain an insight into the associated skills. Numerous case examples from diverse industries and exercises support and illustrate important concepts. The result is a new perspective for project managers: planning can be shown to be a systems synthesis or an inverse problem, which provides a way to reach a satisfactory solution, avoiding the time-consuming or impractical search for the optimal solution.
Author(s): David G. Carmichael
Edition: 1
Publisher: Spon Press
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 352
Tags: Менеджмент;Управление проектами;
Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Series Title......Page 3
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
About the Author......Page 8
Preface......Page 9
Notation......Page 11
Part I: Conventional Treatment from a Systems Perspective......Page 14
1. Introduction......Page 16
2. Systems Thinking......Page 42
3. Planning Tools and Terminology A–Z......Page 53
4. The Planning Process......Page 135
5. Planning Over Levels......Page 161
6. Replanning......Page 192
7. Selected Topics......Page 233
Part II: Synthesis Treatment......Page 280
8. Multistage Planning......Page 282
9. Synthesis Over Levels......Page 297
10. Selected Topic......Page 318
Index......Page 337
