Project Management: Engineering, Technology, and Implementation

This timely volume provides thorough and practical treatment of the engineering and managerial issues surrounding project management. Project Management offers managers, engineers, and technology experts a larger appreciation of their roles by defining a common terminology, explaining the interfaces between the different disciplines involved, and teaching the techniques commonly used in the planning and execution of modern projects. Shtub, Bard, and Globerson outline for readers, techniques for learning how to better select, plan, monitor, and control a project throughout its life cycle. They emphasize organizational design as well as the types of data and systems needed for successful decision making. Stressing integrative concepts rather than isolated methodologies, Project Management relies on simple models to convey ideas and intentionally avoids detailed mathematical formulations and solution algorithms; presents some of the more important analytic techniques in project management and provides references for further study; includes real-world case studies, with forty worked-out examples illustrating how computations and methodologies can be applied on the job (many examples relate to the design of the U.S. Space Station); and features a continuous chapter-to-chapter Team Project. The accompanying disk contains an educational version of Computer Associate's SuperProject Expert - one of the most sophisticated project management software packages available today.