Integrated Project Management Sourcebook - A Technical Guide to Project Scheduling, Risk and Control

This handbook is a unique,comprehensive resource for professional project managers and students inproject management courses that focuses on the integration between baselinescheduling, schedule risk analysis and project control, also known as DynamicScheduling or Integrated Project Management and Control. It contains a set ofmore than 70 articles. Each individual article focuses on one particular topic andfeatures links to other articles in this book, where appropriate. Almost allarticles are accompanied with a set of questions, the answers to which are providedat the end of the book.
Thisbook is accompanied by and is based on the Project Management KnowledgeCenter (www.pmknowledgecenter.com), an online learning platform for IntegratedProject Management. 

List of contents

Introduction.- Part I: Baseline Scheduling.- Part II: Schedule Risk Analysis.- Part III: Project Control.- Part IV: Solutions.

About the author

Prof. Dr. Mario Vanhoucke is a Full Professor at
Ghent University (Belgium), Vlerick Business School (Belgium) and University
College London (UK). He teaches "Project Management", "Applied
Operations Research" and "Decision Making for Business". He is
director of EVM Europe and partner at the company OR-AS. His research interest lies in the integration of project
scheduling, risk management and project control, which has led to more than 60
papers in international journals, three Project Management books published by
Springer and an online learning platform entitled PM Knowledge Center. His research has received multiple awards,
including awards from PMI Belgium and IP.

Summary

This handbook is a unique,
comprehensive resource for professional project managers and students in
project management courses that focuses on the integration between baseline
scheduling, schedule risk analysis and project control, also known as Dynamic
Scheduling or Integrated Project Management and Control. It contains a set of
more than 70 articles. Each individual article focuses on one particular topic and
features links to other articles in this book, where appropriate. Almost all
articles are accompanied with a set of questions, the answers to which are provided
at the end of the book.

This
book is accompanied by and is based on the Project Management Knowledge
Center (www.pmknowledgecenter.com), an online learning platform for Integrated
Project Management. 

Product details

• Authors: Mario Vanhoucke
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9783319273723
• ISBN: 978-3-31-927372-3
• No. of pages: 287
• Dimensions: 174 mm x 248 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 621 g
• Illustrations: XI, 287 p. 120 illus., 39 illus. in color.
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Management, Operations Research, B, Business and Management, Operations Management, Operations Research/Decision Theory, Operations Research and Decision Theory, Project management, Management & management techniques, Operations Research, Management Science, Management decision making, Management science, Management of specific areas, Operational research, Decision Making, Production management