Project management tools

Tools and trade-offs

Ted Klastorin

264 pages, parution le 30/10/2003

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Résumé

This book presents the fundamental concepts of project management in a concise fashion with an emphasis on the difficult tradeoffs that must be made by project managers. The authors describe the basic analytical tools and project management methodologies and show how to apply these tools and methodologies to realistic problems.

Introduction to Project Management
Project Initiation, Selection, and Planning
Project Teams and Organizational Relationships
Precedence Networks and the Critical Path Method (CPM)
Planning to Minimize Costs
Planning with Uncertainty
Risk Management
Resource Management
Monitoring and Control
Managing Multiple Projects
Epilogue
Appendix: Copilot Portable Marine Radar Project
Index

L'auteur - Ted Klastorin

Ted Klastorin is the Burlington Northern/Burlington Resources Professor of Operations Management in the Department of Management Science (School of Business), Adjunct Professor in the Department of Health Services (School of Public Health and Community Medicine), and Adjunct Professor of Industrial Engineering (College of Engineering) at the University of Washington-Seattle. He holds a B.S. degree from Carnegie-Mellon University (1969) and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin (1973).
Professor Klastorin is a senior research fellow at the IC2 Institute, the University of Texas-Austin. He previously taught at the Babcock Graduate School of Management, Wake Forest University (Winston-Salem, North Carolina), as well as the University of Washington and the University of Texas. At the UW, he was the founding chair of the Management Science Department and a co-founder of the PEMM Program (Program in Engineering and Manufacturing Management)-a joint program of the College of Engineering and the School of Business. Professor Klastorin's research interests include project management and supply chain management issues in manufacturing and service organizations. His current research projects include the study of uncertain disruptive events (e.g., strikes) on project planning and coordination issues in decentralized supply chains. His recent articles have appeared in IIE Transactions, Journal of Applied Psychology, Management Science and the Wisconsin Law Review. Professor Klastorin has consulted with numerous organizations, including Boeing, Starbucks, Fluke Corp, and Microsoft (where he has assisted with the design of Microsoft Project).He is a member of INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences), IIE (Institute of Industrial Engineers), and POMS (Production and Operations Management Society), and serves on the editorial boards of Manufacturing &service Operations Management (M&SOM) and IIE Transactions.

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Wiley
Auteur(s)	Ted Klastorin
Parution	30/10/2003
Nb. de pages	264
Format	21 x 26
Couverture	Relié
Poids	740g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780471451860