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Project Management

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The changes for each new edition of Project Management are fuelled largely by my continued
learning and experience. This knowledge originated from my experiences as a manager working
in a number of quite different industries, augmented by a number of successful and fulfilling
consultancy assignments. I have enjoyed the schadenfreude frisson of learning from the mistakes of
others, and equally from the humiliating embarrassments of my own errors. A rich source in more
recent years has come from the challenge of teaching well over 1000 post-graduate management
students from all parts of the world, an experience that (apart from one unpleasant encounter with
a cohort of ten surly English MBA aspirants) has proved wholly and mutually challenging and very
rewarding.

Somewhere embedded in all this learning experience is the advice that I receive from time
to time from reviewers, almost all of whom have been encouraging and supportive. A few have
even been so kind as to offer free advice. One kind reviewer of the eighth edition suggested that
my chapter sequence should be changed to observe more strictly the life cycle pattern of a typical
project. This book has always vaguely been modelled on the start-to-finish progress path of a project,
but I am very grateful to that reviewer for his good advice. As a direct result I have taken this book
apart and rebuilt it so that it now sticks far more faithfully to the project life cycle phases from initial
project idea to final closure. This closer adherence to the project life cycle has allowed the chapters
to follow in a continuous, almost seamless flow and for that reason it was no longer necessary to
divide the book into the separate parts used in earlier editions.

Every new edition seems to grow in size. That has never been my direct intention, but it still
happens every time. I perform my own brand of liposuction to remove surplus fat, and I excise
material that no longer enjoys being flavour of the month. This time, for instance, I have saved
considerable space by consolidating the two former cost estimating chapters into one, by merging
three computing chapters into one, and by condensing the three previous purchasing chapters into
one. Nothing of any substance has been lost through these consolidations which, together, should
have reduced the number of chapters from the former 25 to 20. Yet the book has instead grown to 30
chapters, and the number of illustrations has increased from 164 to very nearly 200. These statistics
indicate the extensive scope of this revision.

Work breakdown structure and coding is now given more prominence as a separate chapter and
the new chapters subjects include: factors for project success or failure; first steps in planning the timescale; financial appraisal and the business plan; organization of business change and IT projects;
key people in the organization; combining the work-, organization- and cost-breakdown structures;
scheduling cash flows; advanced or less frequently used project management methods.

All the former case studies have been reviewed and augmented. Some of these are fairly detailed,
whilst others are simply vignettes drawn from my past experiences. To be consistent these are now
all referred to as case examples.

The general balance of the book has changed slightly to include more on management change
and IT projects, against which there is now slightly less emphasis on manufacturing projects and
production operations.

I feel moved to mention one old favourite that is missing from this new edition. I have used
the gantry project as a case example in all previous editions of this book and in countless lectures
to illustrate critical path network logic and time analysis. I realized some time ago that building a
stand-alone gantry on a remote hillside was a particularly useless endeavour, and I am astonished
that no one has ever questioned the motives or provenance of that futile project. Now it’s dead and
buried (probably on the same remote hillside) and will soon be forgotten. I doubt whether it will
find any mourners, but it left a gap that needed a replacement and for that I have introduced a more
realistic refurbishment project for a museum and art gallery.

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Judul Seri

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Penerbit

London : Gower Publishing Limited., 2007

Deskripsi Fisik

T56.8.L6; 658.4'04--dc22

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-566-08772-1

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Tipe Media

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Edisi

9th ed.

Subjek

MANAJEMEN PROYEK

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