Managing aviation projects from concept to completion / Triant G. Flouris & Dennis Lock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Flouris, Triant G.

Contributor:

Lock, Dennis.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Airplanes--Design and construction.

Airplanes.

Aircraft industry--Management.

Aircraft industry.

Aerospace engineering.

Project management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (529 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey [England] ; Burlington, VT, USA : Ashgate, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Triant Flouris is a prominent academic and administrator in aviation management education; Dennis Lock has more than forty years experience in practising, lecturing and writing about project management. When these two experts combined their considerable talents to write their earlier book Aviation Project Management, it was little wonder that distinguished reviewers gave generous praise and acclaimed it as a welcome addition to what, until then, had been a neglected field. That first title was structured as an essential primer for managers and students. The authors have now written this more i

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Foreword by William DeCota; Foreword by Dr Yiannis Paraschis; Preface; 1 The Nature of Projects and their Management; 2 Factors for Project Success or Failure; 3 Project Definition; 4 Strategic Decisions; 5 Estimating the Project Costs; 6 Evaluating an Aviation Investment Project and Preparing a Business Case; 7 Project Authorization; 8 Organizing the Project; 9 Some Key Roles and Stakeholdersin the Project Organization; 10 Work Breakdown and Coding; 11 Relating the Project Dimensions of Work, Organization and Cost

12 Introduction to Detailed Project Planning13 An Introduction to Critical Path Network Analysis; 14 Critical Path Network Analysis in More Practical Detail; 15 Principles of Resource Scheduling; 16 More Advanced Aspects of Resource Scheduling; 17 Planning For Risk and Uncertainty in Aviation Projects; 18 Contracts and Terms of Payment; 19 Purchasing - Part 1: Principles and Initial Ordering; 20 Purchasing - Part 2: The SupplyChain; 21 Managing Project Start-up; 22 Managing Progress; 23 Managing Changes; 24 Managing Project Costs; 25 Managing Project Cash Flows

26 Reporting Progress and Costs27 Project Closedown; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-315-59346-7

1-317-10195-2

1-317-10194-4

1-282-34449-8

9786612344497

0-7546-9874-2

9781315593463

OCLC:

498507146