| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 330 pages) |
| Series |
Artech House professional development library |
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Artech House professional development library.
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| Contents |
Begin at the beginning -- Project success -- Defining the problem -- How good is the current project system? -- The project management business -- Cause of the problem -- Right solution -- Right execution -- Success with critical chain -- The synthesis of TQM, TOC, and PMBOK -- PMBOK -- Project integration management -- Project scope management -- Project time management -- Project risk management -- Other PMBOK areas -- TQM -- Appreciation for a system -- Understanding variation and uncertainty -- Psychology -- Theory of knowledge -- TOC -- The throughput world -- The production solution -- Five focusing steps -- The thinking process -- Resistance to change -- The direction of the solution -- Deciding what to change -- Defining the project management system -- Project failure as the undesired effect -- Toward a core dilemma -- Longer and longer project duration -- Projects frequently overrun schedule -- Multitasking -- Core conflict leading to UDEs -- Toward desired effects -- Resolving the core conflict -- The resource constraint -- Solution feasibility (evidence) -- Determining what to change to -- The complete single-project solution -- From system requirements to system design -- Requirements matrix -- Summary of single-project critical chain -- Developing the critical chain solution -- Identifying the project constraint -- Exploiting the constraint -- Subordinating merging paths -- Task performance -- Early start versus late finish -- Exploiting the plan using buffer management |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Project management.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Project Management.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Project Management.
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Project management
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1580531903 |
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9781580531900 |
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