Project management for managers

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Görög, Mihály, 1951-
Other Authors Smith, Nigel J.
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Newtown Square, Pa. : Project Management Institute, ©1999.
Subjects
Project management.
Industrial development projects > Study and teaching.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781680154313
1680154311
1880410540
9781880410547
Physical Description1 online resource (xiii, 179 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • The role of project management In organizations. Management dimensions in organizations
  • Organizational strategy and projects
  • Grouping of projects
  • The project cycle and inherent characteristics of the project process. The capital investment-engineering project cycle
  • The generic model of the project cycle
  • The inherent characteristics of project implementation
  • Project formation. The structures of operating functions and function vehicles
  • Activity structures
  • Implications of an integrated approach to project structures
  • Planning the project. Time planning
  • Resource allocation
  • Cost estimation
  • Planning method selection
  • Project strategy- the means. Types of financial settlement
  • Price-based financial settlement
  • Cost-based financial settlement
  • Target-based financial settlement
  • Types of contract
  • Traditional contract
  • Turnkey contract
  • Management contract
  • Project strategy-making decisions. A decision-making approach to formulating project strategy
  • A case study example
  • The client
  • The old country project
  • Making project strategy decisions
  • Further elements in project strategy
  • Prequalification
  • Types of tendering procedure
  • Project strategy in a wider sense
  • Projects by business concession. The corporate structure of concession projects
  • Debt and equity
  • Public-private partnerships
  • Implications for project managers
  • Project control. The role and function of control in project management
  • Tools for project control
  • Implications for project managers
  • Project risk management. The role of the project manager in risk management
  • Risk management methodology
  • Elementary risk analysis
  • Sensitivity analysis
  • Probability analysis
  • Management of residual project risk
  • Avoidance or reduction
  • Transfer
  • Retention
  • Understanding the human aspects
  • Organizational forms for managing projects. Organizational forms in the project process
  • Managing projects based on a linear-functional organizational structure
  • Managing projects with a project task force
  • Managing projects with a matrix organizational structure
  • Coordinating mechanisms
  • Developing the right structure
  • Understanding project success. Project success at project level-- Project success at the organizational level
  • Implications for project managers
  • Project marketing. Project marketing for project clients
  • Project marketing for contributors
  • Basic characteristics of the project market and the project client as buyer
  • Basic characteristics of the clients' decision-making process
  • Factors that shape the client decision-making characters
  • Implications for managers
  • Information technology in project management. Information technology background and terminology
  • Project management applications
  • Appraisal or project preparation stage modeling
  • Implementation or construction/erection stage modeling
  • Criteria for software selection
  • Artificial intelligence and knowledge-based systems and case-based reasoning
  • Project management- the future. Growth of project management
  • Practice of project management
  • Recent trends
  • Vision for project management.

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