Project management for business, engineering, and technology
principiles and practice
- ISBN: 9780750683999
- Editorial: Elsevier Science
- Fecha de la edición: 2008
- Lugar de la edición: Amsterdam. Países Bajos
- Edición número: 3rd ed
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 23 cm
- Nº Pág.: 705
- Idiomas: Inglés
This book covers project management at the advanced undergraduate or master's level. It is suitable for management courses for engineers and technologists, Masters project management courses. The text is appropriate for classes on the management of service, product, engineering projects. It provides a unique systems approach to project management - no other books on project management address this important aspect in sufficient detail. It offers a strong balance between research/scholarship/state-of-the-art and pragmatic "how to do it" guidance for students.It includes new case studies with questions including: Proposal Evaluation for Apollo Spacecraft; Bridgecon Contractors (Cost-time tradeoff on a construction project); Ceiling Panel Collapse in the Big Dig Project; The Nelson Mandela Bridge (Risk management); SA Gold Mine: Earned Value After a Scope Change; The Big Dig: Bostons Central Artery/Tunnel Project (stakeholder management); Maxim Corporation America (project management office, methodology, portfolio management); and, Mozal Project International Investment in an Underdeveloped Country. This third edition contains new chapters on Project Quality Management, Managing Project Management, Managing Multiple Projects and International Project Management.