The essentials of project management / Dennis Lock.

Part 1 Introduction: projects; project management processes; project objectives; the time/cost relationship; the Association for Project Management. Part 2 Definition: the customer's project specification; project scope; use of checklists; the constractor's initial design specification; specification of production methods; construction specification; specifications for product development projects; developing the project specification; projects which are difficult or impossible to define; reference. Part 3 Organization: effective organization and communications; project teams versus functional group or matrix organizations; functional matrix organizations; variations of the matrix organization; project team organization; which type of organization is best?; the hybrid option; organizations with more than one project manager; the project manager himself; project services group. Part 4 Work breakdown and coding: family tree hierarchy; work breakdown structures for large projects; coding systems; benefits of a logical coding system; choosing a coding system. Part 5 Cost estimating: cost format; estimatingaccuracy; classification of estimates according to confidence; standard tables; profit estimates; manufacturing estimates with no drawings; personal estimating characteristics; estimates for material and equipment costs; below-th-line costs; planning; bar charts; critical path networks; the different network notation systems; critical path networks using arrow diagrams; precedence diagrams; case study
the Gantry Project; level of detail in network diagrams; should a large network be broken down into smaller networks?; interface activities; milestones; is the predicted timescale too long?; early consideration ot resource constraints. (Part contents.).