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Project management, planning and control : managing engineering, construction and manufacturing projects to PMI, APM and BSI standards / Albert Lester.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lester, Albert, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Project management.
- Process control.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (718 pages)
- Edition:
- Eighth edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, England ; Cambridge, Massachusetts : Butterworth-Heinemann, [2021]
- Summary:
- Covering the principles and techniques you need to successfully manage an engineering or technical project from start to finish, Project Management, Planning and Control is an established and widely recommended project management handbook.Building on its clear and detailed coverage of planning, scheduling and control, this eighth edition includes.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Project Management, Planning and Control
- Dedication
- Project Management, Planning and Control: Managing Engineering, Construction and Manufacturing Projects to PMI, APM and BSI Standards
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword to the 1st edition
- Foreword to the 8th edition
- Preface to the 8th edition
- Acknowledgements
- 1 - Project definition
- Project definition
- Time-bound project
- Cost-bound project
- Performance (quality)-bound project
- Safety-bound project
- 2 - Project management
- Project manager
- Project manager's charter
- Project office
- Further reading
- 3 - Programme and portfolio management
- Portfolio management
- 4 - Project context (project environment)
- Political
- Economic
- Social (or sociological)
- Technical
- Legal
- Environmental
- 5 - Business case
- The project sponsor
- Requirements management
- 6 - Investment appraisal
- Project viability
- Return on investment
- Net present value
- Payback
- Internal rate of return
- Cost/benefit analysis
- 7 - Stakeholder management
- Direct stakeholders
- Indirect stakeholders
- 8 - Project-success criteria
- Key performance indicators
- 9 - Organization structures
- Functional organization
- Matrix organization
- Project organization (taskforce)
- 10 - Organization roles
- 11 - Project life cycles
- 12 - Work breakdown structures
- Responsibility matrix
- 13 - Estimating
- Subjective
- Parametric
- Comparative (by analogy)
- Analytical
- 14 - Project management plan
- General
- The Why
- The What
- The When
- The Who
- The Where
- The How
- Methods and procedures
- 15 - Risk management
- Stage 1: risk awareness
- Stage 2: risk identification
- Stage 3: risk assessment.
- Stage 4: risk evaluation
- Stage 5: risk management
- Monitoring
- Example of effective risk management
- Positive risk or opportunity
- 16 - Quality management
- History
- Quality management definitions
- Quality
- Quality policy
- Quality management
- Quality assurance (QA)
- Quality systems (quality management systems or QMS)
- Quality control (QC)
- Quality manual
- Quality programme
- Quality plan
- Quality audit
- Quality reviews
- Total quality management (TQM)
- Explanation of the definitions
- Quality assurance
- Quality systems
- Quality control
- Failure mode analysis (cause and effect analysis)
- Pareto analysis
- Trend analysis
- 17 - Change management
- Document-control
- Issue management
- Baseline
- Baseline review
- Pre-IBR
- Preparation
- Execution
- Post-review
- 18 - Configuration management
- 19 - Basic network principles
- Network analysis
- The network
- Basic rules
- Durations
- Numbering
- Random
- Topological
- Sequential
- Coordinates
- Hammocks
- Ladders
- Precedence or activity on node diagrams
- Constraints
- Bar (Gantt) charts
- Time-scale networks and linked bar charts
- 20 - Planning blocks and subdivision of blocks
- Pharmaceutical factory
- New housing estate
- Portland cement factory
- Oil terminal
- Multi-storey block of offices
- Colliery surface reconstruction
- Bitumen refinery
- Typical manufacturing unit
- Subdivision of blocks
- Similar items of equipment
- Trades and disciplines
- Geographical proximity
- Operational systems
- Stages of completion
- Banding
- 21 - Arithmetical analysis and floats
- Arithmetical analysis
- Slack.
- Float
- Total float
- Calculation of float
- Free float
- The concept of free float
- Interfering float
- Independent float
- Notation
- Definitions
- Critical path
- Critical chain project management
- 22 - The case for manual analysis
- The planner
- The role of the computer
- Preparation of the network
- Typical site problems
- The National Economic Development Office report
- 23 - Lester diagram
- Basic advantages
- 24 - Graphical and computer analysis
- Graphical analysis
- Limitations
- Time for analysis
- Computer analysis
- The PC
- Programs
- 25 - Milestones and line of balance
- Milestones
- Line of balance
- 26 - Simple examples
- Example 1
- Example 2
- Example 3
- Summary of operation
- Example 4 (using manual techniques)
- 27 - Progress reporting
- Feedback
- 28 - Project management and network planning
- Responsibilities of the project managers
- Information from network
- Site-preparation contract
- Confidence in plan
- Network and method statements
- Integrated systems
- Networks and claims
- Examples of claims for delays
- Force majeure claims
- Example 4
- 29 - Network applications outside the construction industry
- Bringing a new product onto the market
- Moving a factory
- Centrifugal pump manufacture
- Planning a mail order campaign
- Manufacture of a package boiler
- Manufacture of a cast machined part
- 30 - Resource loading
- The alternative approach
- 31 - Cash flow forecasting
- Example of cash flow forecasting
- 32 - Cost control and EVA
- SMAC - man-hour control
- Summary of advantages
- EVA for civil engineering projects
- Planned costs
- Site overheads
- Example
- Alternative payment schedule
- 33 - Control graphs and reports
- Overall project completion.
- Earned Schedule
- Integrated computer systems
- EVA % complete assessment
- 34 - Procurement
- Procurement strategy
- Supply chain
- Approved tender list
- Pre-tender survey
- Bidder selection
- Request for quotation
- Tender evaluation
- Purchase order
- Expediting, monitoring and inspection
- Shipping and storage
- Erection and installation
- Commissioning and handover
- Types of contracts
- Lump sum contracts
- Remeasured contracts
- Reimbursable contracts
- Target contracts
- Design, build and operate contracts
- Free standing
- Levies on the public sector
- Joint ventures
- Basic requirements for success
- Bonds
- Bid bond
- Advance payment bond
- Performance bond
- Retention (or maintenance) bond
- Letter of intent
- Bad letter
- Good letter
- Subcontracts
- Definition of subcontracts
- Subcontract documents
- Commercial conditions - general
- Special conditions
- Technical specification
- Description of work
- Liquidated damages (or ascertainable liquidated damages)
- Insurance
- Discounts
- Negotiated and idden discounts
- Bulk purchase discounts
- Annual order discounts
- Prompt payment discount
- Discount for retention bond
- Counter-trade
- Incoterms
- Ex works
- Free carrier (named point)
- FOR/FOT
- FOB airport
- FAS
- FOB
- C&
- F
- CIF
- Freight carriage - paid to ...
- Freight carriage - and insurance paid to ...
- Ex ship
- Ex quay
- Delivered at frontier
- Delivered duty paid
- 35 - Value management
- 36 - Health, safety and environment
- Construction, design and management regulations
- Health and safety plan
- Pre-tender health and safety plan
- Construction phase health and safety plan
- Health and safety file
- Warning signs
- 37 - Information management
- Objectives and purpose
- Types of documents
- Authority.
- Distribution of information
- Storing information and virus protection
- Retrieving information and acquisition/modification permits
- Acknowledging receipt of information
- Security arrangements
- Disaster recovery systems
- Configuration control
- Distribution schedule
- Standards to be followed
- Legal requirements
- Foreseeable risks
- Data collection
- Qualitative
- Quantitative
- 38 - Communication
- Cultural differences, language differences, pronunciation, translation and technical jargon
- Geographical separation, location equipment or transmission failure
- Misunderstanding, attitude, perception, selective listening, assumptions and hidden agendas
- Poor leadership, unclear instructions, unclear objectives, unnecessarily long messages and withholding of information
- Meetings
- 39 - Team building and motivation
- Team development
- Forming
- Storming
- Norming
- Performing
- Mourning
- The Belbin team types
- Plant
- Resource investigator
- Coordinator
- Shaper
- Monitor/evaluator
- Team worker
- Implementer
- Completer/finisher
- Specialist
- Motivation
- Maslow's hierarchy of needs
- Herzberg's motivational hygiene theory
- Hygiene factors
- Motivators
- 40 - Leadership
- Situational leadership
- Category 1
- Category 2
- Category 3
- Category 4
- High task, low support
- High task, high support
- Low task, high support
- Low task, low support
- Professionalism and ethics
- Responsibilities to clients and employers
- Responsibilities to the project
- Responsibilities to the profession of project management
- Competence
- 41 - Negotiation
- Phase 1: preparation
- Phase 2: planning
- Phase 3: introductions
- Phase 4: opening proposal
- Phase 5: bargaining
- Phase 6: agreement
- Phase 7: finalizing.
- 42 - Conflict management and dispute resolution.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780128243404
- 0128243406
- OCLC:
- 1266905111
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