Project Management
A Short Course for Professionals
2nd Edition
Published on 14. June 1988
Book
Paperback/Softback
334 pages
978-0-471-61507-1 (ISBN)
Description
Project management presents special challenges - a project has got to be done on time, and within budget. Updated with new information on ethics and management, this short course provides professionals with a detailed overview of every phase of the management of a project, from drawing up first plans to implementing the phase-out plan. The author addresses the whole life cycle of a project, including negotiating the contract, budgeting, making procurement decisions, supervising operations, and assuring quality control. The text includes discussion of Gannt charts, milestone charts, PERT, LOB, input-output control methods, and more. The previous edition of this book was published in 1976.
More details
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
Ill.
Dimensions
Height: 290 mm
Width: 230 mm
Weight
822 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-61507-1 (9780471615071)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Project versus functional management; organization; crisis elimination; quotations and negotiations; beginning operations: trouble avoidance; dollars, their uses and effects; systems engineering; quality assurance and control; procurement, contract management, production; management style; phase-out.