Project Planning, and Control

Name: Project Planning, and Control
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ISBN: 9780415347266

ISBN-10: 0415347262

ISBN-13: 9780415347266

Edition: 2004

Authors: David G. Carmichael, David G. Carmichael

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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, and this provides a way to reach a satisfactory solution, avoiding the time-consuming or impractical search for the optimal solution.

Book details

List price: $195.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 1/13/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.45" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.452
Language: English




Conventional Treatment from a Systems Perspective


Introduction


Background


Replanning


Planning Effort


Book Outline


Exercises


Systems Thinking


Introduction


Systems-Subsystems Single Level System


Fundamental Systems Problems


Planning Tools and Terminology A-Z


The Planning Process


Introduction


Planning Problem Components


Simplifications to Planning


Objectives and Constraints


Scope


Extras Feeding into and out of Planning


Programs


General


Programs over levels


Program time horizons


Summary


Exercises


Planning over Levels


Introduction


Hierarchical Modelling


Levels


Control


Work Breakdown


Iterative Analysis Approach


Example


Exercises


Replanning


Introduction


Representation


Monitoring


General


Frequency of monitoring


Data collection


Popular Approaches to Reporting


Introduction


Common reporting troubles


A typical report


Cost reporting


S curves


Milestone reporting


Exception reporting


Schedule reporting


Bar charts


Factual networks


Earned value


Cumulative production plot


Delay reporting


Replanning Representation


Introduction


Baseline


Project performance better than, or as planned


Project performance different to that planned


Example


Exercises


Selected Topics


People Issues


Introduction


Involvement of people


Barriers to effective planning


Responsibility matrices


Replanning issues


Exercises


Monte Carlo Simulation


Introduction


Activity duration generation


Uniform random numbers


Example


Criticality index


Cost inclusion


Example


Variance reduction


References


Exercises


Linear Projects


Introduction


Examples


Continuous components


Discrete components


Replanning


Reference


Exercises



Synthesis Treatment


Multistage Planning


Introduction


Stage Modelling


Introduction


Planning over the total project duration


Objectives and constraints


Optimisation Problem


A generalisation


Examples


Introduction


Canonical form example


Non canonical form example


Synthesis over Levels


Direct Synthesis Approach


Models


Level Planning Problems


Introduction


Constituent level


Element level


Activity level


Project level


General comment


Multilevel Optimisation Thinking


Introduction


Decomposition according to the system model


Decomposition according to hierarchy


Selected Topic


Project Compression


Introduction


Cost-duration relationships


The optimisation problem


Solution


A compromise approach


Example


References and bibliography