September 2013
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
13h 10m
English
book
Project Management in Practice, 5th Edition
by Jack R. Meredith, Samuel J. Mantel Jr., Scott M. Shafer, Margaret M. Sutton
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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
time estimation. See also Time estimation
at the 90% and 95% levels, 163
deterministic, 153
expected time, 162
probabilistic (stochastic), 153, 162–165
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, 23–24. See also Project Portfolio Process
breakthrough projects, 23–24, 78
R&D projects, 24
Uses, 24
Amor, 125
Analytical approach, 37
Atlantic States Chemical Laboratories, 291
financial vs. project audits, 283–284
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
Beta distribution, 135, 162–163, 174, 309
BetaPERT distribution, 139
Block, 55
Boeing, 39
Bolles, 55
Booz-Allen Hamilton, 153
Boston's Big Dig, 130
Bracker, 79
Bratta, 80
Budget. See also Cost
activity budgeting, 121
budgeting in practice, 133–134
changes,
causes, 131
handling ...
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