Project Management Tools - Olson, David L.

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Résumé :
This book is devoted to presenting models that have been applied in project management. There are a variety of project domains. We discuss engineering/construction projects, software development projects, massive projects to include governmental undertakings, and pharmaceutical product development. Chapter 1 gives an overview of projects, and discusses the difficulties in completing projects on time, within budget, and at designed functionality. While the successful completion of a project is a challenge, there are some things that can be done to improve the probability of a project's success. The book reviews a number of project management concepts. These include developing organizational ability to work on projects, as discussed in Chapters 2 and 3. Sponsor expectations can be based on better information if a good job of project development, estimation and selection is conducted, as discussed in Chapters 4, 5 and 6. Project planning tools involving the critical path method are covered in Chapter 7. Tools to evaluate project risk are covered in Chapter 8. The critical chain method is covered in Chapter 9. Chapter 10 discusses means to rush projects when circumstances demand, to include project crashing as well as Agile and SCRUM approaches used in software engineering projects. Chapter 11 covers project implementation and control, including assessment of delay responsibility....

Biographie:
David L. Olson is the James & H.K. Stuart Professor in MIS and Chancellor's Professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. He has published research in over 200 refereed journal articles and has authored over 40 books. He has served as associate editor of a number of journals and made hundreds of presentations at international and national conferences on research topics. He is a member of the Decision Sciences Institute, the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences, and the Multiple Criteria Decision Making Society. He was a Lowry Mays endowed Professor at Texas A&M University from 1999 to 2001. He was named Best Enterprise Information Systems Educator by the IFIP in 2006. He is a Fellow of the Decision Sciences Institute. Dr. ?zg?r Araz is the Ron and Carol Cope Professor and Professor of Supply Chain Management and Analytics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. His research interests include systems simulation, business analytics, healthcare operations and public health informatics. His research has been supported by the NIH, Veterans Engineering Resource Center (VERC), HDR company, Boys Town of Nebraska, Nebraska Medicine and the University of Nebraska. Before joining the College of Business at UNL, he served at the College of Public Health at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC). He received his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Arizona State University and was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics of the University of Texas at Austin. He is an editorial advisory board member of the Transportation Research Part E and also serves as associate editor for Decision Sciences and IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering. He is the Public Health Informatics Area Editor for the journal Health Systems. He is also a faculty fellow of the Nebraska Governance and Technology Center and Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute....

Sommaire:
David L. Olson is the James & H.K. Stuart Professor in MIS and Chancellor's Professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. He has published research in over 200 refereed journal articles and has authored over 40 books. He has served as associate editor of a number of journals and made hundreds of presentations at international and national conferences on research topics. He is a member of the Decision Sciences Institute, the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences, and the Multiple Criteria Decision Making Society. He was a Lowry Mays endowed Professor at Texas A&M University from 1999 to 2001. He was named Best Enterprise Information Systems Educator by the IFIP in 2006. He is a Fellow of the Decision Sciences Institute. Dr. ?zg?r Araz is the Ron and Carol Cope Professor and Professor of Supply Chain Management and Analytics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. His research interests include systems simulation, business analytics, healthcare operations and public health informatics. His research has been supported by the NIH, Veterans Engineering Resource Center (VERC), HDR company, Boys Town of Nebraska, Nebraska Medicine and the University of Nebraska. Before joining the College of Business at UNL, he served at the College of Public Health at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC). He received his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Arizona State University and was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics of the University of Texas at Austin. He is an editorial advisory board member of the Transportation Research Part E and also serves as associate editor for Decision Sciences and IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering. He is the Public Health Informatics Area Editor for the journal Health Systems. He is also a faculty fellow of the Nebraska Governance and Technology Center and Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute....