Randal Wilson
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A Comprehensive Guide to Project Management Schedule and Cost Control

Methods and Models for Managing the Project Lifecycle

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This is the most complete guide to all the principles and techniques you need to successfully schedule projects and control their costs. Not a broad project management guide, it offers focused coverage of every essential aspect of scheduling and cost control — including key issues ignored by typical PM guides.

Expert project manager and long-time instructor Randal Wilson makes scheduling and cost control intuitive through the extensive use of graphs, charts, and case studies, and provides all the formulas and worked examples you need to succeed. Writing for both newcomers and working project managers, Wilson covers all this, and more:

Project structures, including differences between projects and programs, and how those differences affect costing and scheduling

Initiation: how projects start, how to develop project charters and stakeholder registers, and how to manage stakeholders

Planning, in depth: what costs must be addressed, and what schedule constraints must be considered

Project schedule analysis: activity definition, WBS, and work packages; activity sequencing and diagramming; proven methodologies for estimating resources and activity durations; and schedule development

Project cost analysis: gathering and estimating all project costs, including labor, materials, vendor bids, subcontractors, contracts, equipment, facilities, and direct/indirect costs.

Budgeting via top-down, bottom-up, and activity-based methods

Project monitoring and control: earned value, tracking Gantt, S-Curves, performance reviews, milestone analysis, change control systems, estimate at completion, forecasting, and much more. Product Description
Master all the modern project scheduling and cost control techniques you need, in one focused tutorial! Randal Wilson's Project Schedule & Cost Control isn't your typical project management guide: it's 100% focused on the specific principles, techniques, and best-practice methodologies of scheduling and cost control.

Wilson illuminates key issues through the extensive use of graphs, charts, case studies, and worked examples; and calls your attention to crucial issues that "generic" PM books ignore. Coverage includes:

Project structures, including differences between projects and programs, and how those differences affect costing and scheduling

Initiation: how projects start, how to develop project charters and stakeholder registers, and how to manage stakeholders

Planning, in depth: what costs must be addressed, and what schedule constraints must be considered

Project schedule analysis: activity definition, WBS, and work packages; activity sequencing and diagramming; proven methodologies for estimating resources and activity durations; and schedule development

Project cost analysis: gathering and estimating all project costs, including labor, materials, vendor bids, subcontractors, contracts, equipment, facilities, and direct/indirect costs.

Budgeting via top-down, bottom-up, and activity-based methods

Project monitoring and control: earned value, tracking Gantt, S-Curves, performance reviews, milestone analysis, change control systems, estimate at completion, forecasting, and much more

For both project management newcomers and working project managers who need to sharpen their skills

Features + Benefits
The most focused and complete guide to modern project scheduling and cost control: all you need, in one book

Teaches solid practices for establishing an industry-standard cost and schedule control methodology

Covers the entire project lifecycle, from project initiation and planning onward

Introduces all key project roles and stakeholders

Explains every essential idea, including Gantt charts, WBS, CPM, earned value, change control, cost of quality, and much more

Explores key concepts using graphs, charts, formulas, relevant case studies, and up-to-date examples

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All you need to know to successfully schedule projects and control their costs

The first PM guide 100% focused on scheduling and cost control
Covers schedule/cost development, analysis, monitoring, and control