CHAPTER 13

Quality in Project Management

Fundamentals of Project Management

A project is a network of actions involving people and activities and consuming resources including facilities, time, cost, and materials and if necessary explicitly includes and tracks risk. A project is also a process or a network of processes. It is entirely analogous to any product or service organization and is an alternative presentation of process logic in a way that facilitates time and cost calculations.

The central difference is that you declare the start and end activities, and then show the dependencies—activities that cannot start until others have finished—predecessors (and others as well), and any lead time (lag) before starting, together with milestones ...

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