Project Management And Project Network Techniques

This text deals with the management side of project management. Drawing on the authors' experience of manufacturing, and in particular engineering, the book examines the introduction of project management in established industrial concerns, on risk assessment and on quality in projects.

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Building on the foundations of the successful Critical Path Analysis, this new text has been substantially changed in order to include the management concepts of project management. The book focuses on the introduction of project management in established industrial concerns, on risk assessment and on quality in projects. This text looks at what defines a project and at the new techniques available to project managers. it is divided into two parts. The first part deals with the managerial aspects of project management and the four phases of a project. The second part deals with project management techniques such as Activity-on-Arrow and Activity-on-Node networks. Written in a user-friendly style, the book contains numerical and essay-style questions with answers to the essay-style questions and a glossary of terms.