Project Management Framework

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CRC Press, 2005 M08 12 - 300 pages

This book covers the framework of project management, a discipline that is topical in many quarters. The aims of ‘Project Management Framework’ are to understand project management and to stimulate and contribute to a structured way of thinking in applying this discipline. In this work, a systems view to project management is described, based on the realization that management is a synthesis or inverse problem. One of the overriding reasons for writing this book was to counter the myriad of misconceptions and thinking errors that exist amount project management writers and practitioners. In addition, the usage of correct terminology and application of right level of thinking are discussed as factors contributing to the heart of more mature management practices.


The subject matter is developed in this edition through looking at the fundamentals of projects and management and subsequently through studying the chronological development of the project life cycle. In order to support theory, numerous case examples from diverse industries are included. Aspects that are generally not available elsewhere are highlighted, whereas project management material that is readily available in other texts has been deliberately omitted.

This book is intended to serve students, teachers and practitioners. As only very few prerequisites are needed apart from a basic interest in projects, some exposure to the discipline and a systematic thinking ability, this book serves a broad group of interested readers who want to know more about the discipline.

 

Contents

CHAPTER 1 Introduction
3
CHAPTER 2 Projects and Project Life Cycles
19
CHAPTER 3 What is Project Management?
51
CHAPTER 4 Systematic General Problem Solving
63
APPENDIX 41 Value Management
78
APPENDIX 42 Risk Management
84
APPENDIX 43 Work Study
94
PART B STARTING A PROJECT OFF
105
PART D PROJECT EXAMPLES
191
CHAPTER 10 Movie Making
193
CHAPTER 11 Organisational Change
203
CHAPTER 12 Converting to a ProjectBased Organisation
215
CHAPTER 13 Technical v NonTechnical Projects
219
CHAPTER 14 Projects with IllDefined Scope
227
CHAPTER 15 FastTracked Projects
237
PART E A FRESH LOOK AT PROJECT MANAGEMENT
249

CHAPTER 5 Early Project Activities
107
CHAPTER 6 A Projects Origin
119
CHAPTER 7 Objectives and Constraints
143
CHAPTER 8 Project Scope
171
PART C OTHER LIFE CYCLE ACTIVITIES
183
CHAPTER 9 Other Life Cycle Activities
185
CHAPTER 16 Systems Thinking
251
CHAPTER 17 Staged Phased Decomposition of Projects
267
References and Bibliography
281
Subject Index
283
Back Cover
287
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Carmichael, D.G.

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