Stephen A Devaux

Total Project Control

A Practitioner's Guide to Managing Projects as Investments, Second Edition

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Demonstrating how to maximize the business value of a project, this book covers critical path drag, and its corollaries: drag cost, true cost, resource availability drag (RAD), and the cost of leveling with unresolved bottlenecks (the CLUB). It shows how to compute and use them to rightsize staffing levels for projects, programs, and organizatio

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780367783549
• ISBN-10: 0367783541
• Artikelnr.: 61211143

Autorenporträt

Bajan-born Steve Devaux is a project management theorist, consultant, and academic. He developed TPC, an ROI-based approach to project planning and analysis, as well as such new techniques as critical path drag and the value breakdown structure (VBS). He founded Analytic Project Management in 1992 and has consulted to industries ranging from software to aerospace. He has an M. Sc. in project management from Northeastern University and has taught graduate courses at Brandeis University, Suffolk University, and University of West Indies at Barbados.

Inhaltsangabe

The Nature of a Project. An Overview of TPC Planning. Overview of Planning
the Work. Planning the Scope. Developing the Work Breakdown Structure.
Scheduling I - The Critical Path Method (CPM). Scheduling II - The
Precedence Diagram Method (PDM). Activity-Based Resource Assignments.
Resource Scheduling and Leveling. Tracking and Controlling the Project.
Conclusion.