ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the toolsets through the lens of a complex project, the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster recovery effort. The Fukushima recovery project is a major undertaking given its magnitude, scope, longevity, and the costs involved. In addition to providing an overview of the latest toolsets for complex project management in the context of the Fukushima recovery project, the evolving toolbox approach, which is a systemic platform for managing tools. The chapter presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book also presents a range of project scheduling tools and describes how these have advanced from the mediaeval period to the present time. It looks at the future and discusses how project scheduling tools can continue to evolve in order to cope with increasingly complex projects. The book explores novel modern approaches on how cost estimation is conducted under uncertainty.
