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Project Management in Practice, 5th Edition
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Project Management in Practice, 5th Edition

by Jack R. Meredith, Samuel J. Mantel Jr., Scott M. Shafer, Margaret M. Sutton
September 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
336 pages
13h 10m
English
Wiley
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Aaron, 80

Abernathy, 17

Abram, 130

Ackoff, 261

Action plan. See Planning

Activity. See also Scheduling

budgeting, 121

definition, 153

dummy, 155

pseudoactivity, 224225

slack, 153, 158159

time estimation. See also Time estimation

at the 90% and 95% levels, 163

deterministic, 153

expected time, 162

probabilistic (stochastic), 153, 162165

standard deviation of, 162

variance of, 163

Activity-on-arrow (AOA), activity-on-node (AON). See Scheduling

Adams, 253

Adler, 227

Afzalur, 61

Aggregate project plan, 2324. See also Project Portfolio Process

breakthrough projects, 2324, 78

derivative projects, 23, 77

platform projects, 23, 78

R&D projects, 24

Uses, 24

Amor, 125

Analytical approach, 37

Atlantic States Chemical Laboratories, 291

Auditing, 283287

behavioral aspects, 284285

financial vs. project audits, 283284

process of, 283285

reports, 285287

types of, 283

Australia's M5 East Tunnel, 99

Australian Parliament House project, 263

Autoweek, 63

Badiru, 125

Bailetti, 64

Bailey, 67

Baker, 289

Barr, 257

Baseline plan. See Planning

Benchmarking, 267, 270, 281

Beta distribution, 135, 162163, 174, 309

BetaPERT distribution, 139

Block, 55

Boeing, 39

Bolles, 55

Booz-Allen Hamilton, 153

Boston's Big Dig, 130

Bracker, 79

Brainstorming, 82, 94

Bratta, 80

Brown, 94, 97

Budget. See also Cost

activity budgeting, 121

bottom-up, 116, 119

budgeting in practice, 133134

changes,

causes, 131

handling ...

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