ABSTRACT

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.

part |2 pages

PART I Conventional treatment from a systems perspective

chapter 1|26 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|11 pages

Systems Thinking

chapter 3|82 pages

Planning Tools and Terminology A–Z

chapter 4|26 pages

The Planning Process

chapter 5|31 pages

Planning Over Levels

chapter 6|41 pages

Replanning

chapter 7|47 pages

Selected Topics

part |2 pages

PART II Synthesis treatment

chapter 8|15 pages

Multistage Planning

chapter 9|21 pages

Synthesis Over Levels

chapter 10|19 pages

Selected Topic