Arnold M Ruskin, W Eugene Estes

What Every Engineer Should Know About Project Management

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This second edition describes advances in requirement specifications, work breakdown structures, project control and risk management, and offers new information on motivation, matrix arrangements and project records. The roles and responsibilities of the project manager, the anatomy of a project, and planning and contol techniques are all discussed.; This work is intended for use by cost engineers, general engineers and other professionals involved in project management; and upper-level undergraduate, graduate and continuing education students in these disciplines.

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Covering the roles and responsibilities of the project manager, What Every Engineer Should Know about Project Management, Second Edition describes requirement specifications, work breakdown structures, project control, and risk management while offering added information on motivation, matrix arrangements, and project records. Discussing the anatomy of a project, planning and control, and techniques, the authors describe the project manager's entire range of responsibilities from initial planning to directing personnel, controlling work, and reporting results. The appendices cover work breakdown structure paradigms, cost versus time profiles, and checklists to assess work done.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• 2nd Rev and Expanded edition
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 159mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 481g
• ISBN-13: 9780824789534
• ISBN-10: 0824789539
• Artikelnr.: 20950799

Autorenporträt

Ruskin, Arnold M.; Estes, W. Eugene

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Anatomy of a Project. Roles and Responsibilities of the
Project Manager. Planning Techniques. Control Techniques. Risk Management.
Coordinating and Directing Techniques: Part I. Coordinating and Directing
Techniques: Part II. Project Records and Reports. Negotiating. Epilogue.
Appendix A: Work Breakdown Structure Paradigms and Processes. Appendix B:
Transforming a Work Breakdown Structure into a Precedence Chart. Appendix
C: Cost Versus Time Profiles. Appendix D: Measuring Project Progress:
Percent Complete, Earned Value, and the Size of Work Increments. Appendix
E: Questions to Assess Work Done. Appendix F: Cultural Aspects of
Successful Matrix Organizations. Bibliography.