Project Management

ISBN-13: 9781032550916 / Twarda / 2023 / 268 str.

Vijay Bansal

Opis

Planning and Scheduling Techniques for Project Management is a highly readable guide to the essentials of project planning, scheduling, and control.

Spis treści

1. Project Management  2. Work Breakdown Structure  3. Bar Charts  4. Development of Networks  5. Critical Path Method – I: Activity Times  6. Critical Path Method – II: Activity Floats  7. Crashing: Time-Cost Tradeoff  8. Limited Time Resource Scheduling  9. Project Control and Updating  10. Programme Evaluations Review Technique – I: Event Times  11. Programme Evaluation and Review Technique – II: Probability of Completion  12. Precedence Diagramming Method  13. Line of Balance for Repetitive Projects  14. Selection of Planning Techniques   

O autorze

Vijay Kumar Bansal is a faculty member of the Department of Civil Engineering at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Hamirpur, India. He has more than two decades of experience in teaching, research, and fieldwork in project management: he is a resource person for many international e-learning hubs, has guided many Ph.D. and Master's Programme theses, and has completed many research projects. The author's research interests include 4D scheduling, repetitive scheduling, location-based planning scheduling, etc. He has contributed many research papers to national and international journals, conferences, and magazines, published mainly by Taylor & Francis, American Society of Civil Engineers, Elsevier, Springer, etc. Apart from teaching and research, the author has worked in relevant positions such as executive engineer, associate dean, etc.