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9780415347266

Project Planning, and Control

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415347266

  • ISBN10:

    0415347262

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2006-01-13
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

"The book aims to develop the reader's professional skills and thinking in the planning component of project work, to enable the reader to perform more effectively, to understand project planning procedures and to gain an insight into the associated skills. Numerous case examples from diverse industries and exercises support the approach."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

David G. Carmichael is a Consulting Engineer, and Professor of Civil Engineering and former Head of the Department of Engineering Construction and Management at The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

Table of Contents

About the author vii
Preface viii
Notation x
PART I Conventional treatment from a systems perspective
1(266)
Introduction
3(26)
Background
3(9)
Replanning
12(9)
Planning effort
21(3)
Book outline
24(5)
Systems thinking
29(11)
Introduction
29(1)
Systems-subsystems
29(3)
Single level system
32(4)
Fundamental systems problems
36(4)
Planning tools and terminology A--Z
40(82)
The planning process
122(26)
Introduction
122(2)
Planning problem components
124(3)
Simplifications to planning
127(2)
Objectives and constraints
129(5)
Scope
134(3)
Extras feeding into and out of planning
137(1)
Programs
138(10)
Planning over levels
148(31)
Introduction
148(1)
Hierarchical modelling
149(3)
Work breakdown
152(14)
Iterative analysis approach
166(2)
Example
168(11)
Replanning
179(41)
Introduction
179(7)
Monitoring
186(4)
Popular approaches to reporting
190(19)
Replanning representation
209(11)
Selected topics
220(47)
People issues
220(8)
Monte Carlo simulation
228(21)
Linear projects
249(18)
PART II Synthesis treatment
267(57)
Multistage planning
269(15)
Introduction
269(1)
Stage modelling
269(6)
Optimisation problem
275(1)
Examples
276(8)
Synthesis over levels
284(21)
Direct synthesis approach
284(1)
Models
284(8)
Level planning problems
292(3)
Multilevel optimisation thinking
295(10)
Selected topic
305(19)
Project compression
305(19)
Index 324

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