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Critical chain project management / Lawrence P. Leach.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Leach, Lawrence P., author.
- Series:
- Artech House effective project management series.
- Artech House project management library
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Project management.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (345 p.)
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Distribution:
- [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : IEEE Xplore, [2014]
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Artech House, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This third edition is packed with fresh, field-tested insights on how to plan, lead, and complete projects with unprecedented efficiency. It provides project managers with expanded coverage on critical chain planning, multiple project selection and management, critical change project networks, new lean techniques related to critical chain project management (CCPM), and effective strategies for bringing about the organizational change required to succeed. Topics include: CCPM techniques, tools, and theory managers need to develop critical chain solutions and apply them to their challenging projects; helps managers master key project skills such as scope control and risk management; shows managers how to shorten project delivery time, eliminate cost and scheduling over-runs, manage project resources more efficiently, reduce stress on their project teams, and finish projects that meet or exceed expectations. -- Edited summary from book.
- Contents:
- Quick start
- Why change how you plan and deliver projects?
- The synthesis of TOC and PMBOK, considering lean and six sigma
- The direction of the solution
- The complete single-project solution
- Starting a new project
- Developing the (single-project) critical chain schedule
- Developing the multiproject critical chain plan
- Execution
- Project risk management
- Implementing the change to CCPM.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-60807-735-7
- OCLC:
- 939262785
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