Engineering Project Management - Neil G. Siegel

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Résumé :

An engineering-focused approach to project management techniques and strategies

Engineering projects are vital for modern society and global human survival, but many engineering projects fail, in large part due to poor and/or ineffective management. These failures have led to a desire to identify those techniques and mindsets that can lead consistently to successful engineering projects.

The first edition of this book, Engineering Project Management, has served as the essential overview to engineering-based project management methods, tools, processes, and mind-sets. Offering a practical, step-by-step guide to applying project management techniques in engineering settings, it draws upon active learning approaches and the author's extensive experience to create a thorough and cutting-edge guide. This second edition is now updated to reflect transformative recent developments in both technology and project management, and remains an indispensable tool for project managers and engineers alike.

Readers of this second edition of Engineering Project Management will also find:

• Updated coverage of the social aspects of project management, along with other soft skills, throughout the volume
• Detailed discussion of topics including project life-cycle, identification and management of stakeholders, cost estimation, schedule estimation, monitoring of your project, engineering economics, engineering ethics, and many more
• A structure that aligns perfectly with a single-semester course, alternating lectures with facilitated lab sessions

Engineering Project Management is ideal for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and instructors in courses in Engineering Project Management, as well as professional engineers and early career practitioners who need to brush up on their project management skills....

Biographie:

HAMILTON MANN is a globally recognized AI thought leader, researcher, executive, lecturer, and award-winning author. He is the originator of Artificial Integrity, a pioneering concept and research agenda that advances AI by prioritizing integrity over intelligence, and serves as Executive Chairman and President of the Artificial Integrity Institute. He also serves as Group Vice President at Thales, where he co-leads the company's AI and digital transformation initiatives worldwide, and teaches at INSEAD and HEC Paris. Mann is the author of Artificial Integrity: The Paths to Leading AI Toward a Human-Centered Future, recognized as a Thinkers50 Best New Management Book and a Next Big Idea Club Must-Read. He was named to the Thinkers50 Radar, which recognizes 30 emerging management thinkers shaping the future of management, and received the Thinkers50 Distinguished Achievement Award in Digital Thinking in 2025....

Sommaire:

About the Author xv

Acknowledgments xvi

About the Companion Website xviii

Introduction xix

1 The Role and the Challenge 1

1.1 Introduction 1

1.2 The Project 5

1.3 The Project Manager 11

1.4 Engineering Processes Can Help You 17

1.5 The Engineering Project Manager Mind-Set 18

1.6 Next 20

1.7 About Facilitated Lab Sessions and Practical Exercises 21

1.8 This Week's Facilitated Lab Session 21

2 Performing Engineering on Projects (Initial Portion) 27

2.1 The Systems Method 27

2.2 Requirements 43

2.3 Design 52

2.4 Interaction of the Requirements and Design Processes with Project Management Processes 67

2.5 Your Role in All of This 67

2.6 Next 71

2.7 This Week's Facilitated Lab Session 71

3 Performing Engineering on Projects (Concluding Portion) 73

3.1 The Remaining Stages of the Project Life-Cycle 73

3.2 Next 95

3.3 This Week's Facilitated Lab Session 95

4 Understanding Your Users and Your Other Stakeholders 97

4.1 The Four Steps to Understanding Your Users and Your Other Stakeholders 98

4.2 Case Study About the Value of Using the Customer's Coordinate System of Value: Role-Based Processing 108

4.3 Special Topic: Designing the User Experience 111

4.4 Summary: Understanding Your Users and Your Other Stakeholders 116

4.5 Next 116

4.6 This Week's Facilitated Lab Session 116

5 How Do Engineering Projects Get Created? 119

5.1 Engineering Projects Are Created in Response to a Need, or a Vision 119

5.2 How to Win 122

5.3 A Case Study in Proposal Preparation 140

5.4 Your Role in All of This 144

5.5 Summary: How to Win 145

5.6 Next 146

5.7 This Week's Facilitated Lab Session 146

6 Organizing and Planning 147

6.1 The Work-Breakdown Structure 147

6.2 The Statement of Work 154

6.3 The Organization Chart 157

6.4 The Project Plan 161

6.5 Your Role in All of This 166

6.6 Summary: Organizing and Planning 167

6.7 Next 167

6.8 This Week's Facilitated Lab Session 167

7 Creating Credible Predictions for Schedule and Cost: The Activity Network 169

7.1 Setting the Stage 169

7.2 Estimating the Schedule for Your Project 172

7.3 Estimating the Cost of Your Project 180

7.4 Injecting Realism Into Your Estimates 182

7.5 Cost Versus Price 187

7.6 Your Role in All of This 188

7.7 The Intersection with Engineering 189

7.8 Next 189

7.9 This Week's Facilitated Lab Session 190

8 Drawing Valid Conclusions from Numbers 191

8.1 In Engineering, We Must Make Measurements 191

8.2 The Data, the Analysis, and/or the Conclusions Are Often Wrong 192

8.3 What Engineering Project Managers Need to Measure 216

8.4 Implications for the Design and Management Processes 217

8.5 Beware of Trying to Predict or Forecast! 225

8.6 Your Role in All of This 226

8.7 Summary: Drawing Valid Conclusions From Numbers 226

8.8 Next 227

8.9 This Week's Facilitated Lab Session 227

9 Risk and Opportunity Management 229

9.1 Things Can Go Wrong with Our Project: How Do We Cope? 229

9.2 The Steps of Risk Management 233

9.3 Two Special Types of Risks 244

9.4 Focus on Ranking the Risks by Their Potential Impact, Rather than by Their Likelihood 248

9.5 Lessons Learned From Risk Management 252

9.6 Your Role in All of This 253

9.7 Summary: Risk and Opportunity Management 253

9.8 Next 254

9.9 This Week's Facilit...