This volume discusses strategic and operational issues in executing projects. It provides both quantitative and qualitative treatment on key areas of project management, and addresses issues of scheduling, procurement, quality, risk and communications management. The beneficiaries of this volume will primarily be university students in Engineering and Business Management disciplines. The book also extends practical insights and will be useful to professionals working in manufacturing and service industries.

Auteur

Dr. Jitesh J. Thakkar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. He received his Ph.D. in Supply Chain Management from IIT Delhi. He has over 20 years of teaching, research and industry experience. He has published over 50 research papers in leading national and international journals in the areas of Lean & Sustainable manufacturing, Supply Chain Management, Quality Management, Small and Medium Enterprises, and Performance Measurement. He is the Associate Editor for OPSEARCH - a journal published by Springer. His online course (MOOCs-NPTEL) on "Six Sigma" has benefited university students and industry professionals. He has conducted training workshops for corporate managers in Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing, Value Engineering, Project Management, Quality Management, Supply Chain Management and Statistical Decision Making.

Contenu

Project Complexities and Scope.- Project Organizations.- Project Selection.- Project Planning and Representation.- Project Scheduling.- Project Scheduling with Exact Distribution Method (EDM), Chance Constrained Programming (CCP) and Simulation.- Project Scheduling with TOC and CCPM.- Project Time-Cost Trade-off.- Project Resource Allocation.- Project Monitoring and Control.- Project Risk Control and Management.- Project Procurement and Contracts Management.- Project Quality Management.- Human Issues in Project Management.- Project Communication Management.- Project Closure and Termination.