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Integrated Project Management Sourcebook
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A Technical Guide to Project Scheduling, Risk and Control
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written by: Mario Vanhoucke
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Published by:Springer
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Website:
www.or-as.be/books
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This book is intended to be the Integrated Project Management Sourcebook for students of any Project Management course focusing on the integration between baseline scheduling, schedule risk analysis and project control. This integration is known as "Dynamic Scheduling" or "Integrated Project Management and Control". The book is intended to be a technical guide that contains a set of +70 articles classified in the three main book themes, and each article contains links to other relevant articles of the book. The articles are accompanied with a set of questions to enable the reader to test his/her knowledge and understanding of the article’s theme, for which the answers are provided at the end of this book.
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The book offers a valuable resource for anyone who wants to understand the technical details and underlying mechanisms of dynamic scheduling methods for projects. It is intended for students, professionals and academics with an interest and/or experience in the quantitative mechanisms used by the Baseline Scheduling, Schedule Risk Analysis and Earned Value & Earned Schedule Control concepts.
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The content of this MS Excel solution file contains different tabs mentioned in the book
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and summarised along the following lines:
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Basline Scheduling
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Solutions for "activity costs" questions
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Solutions for "CPM" questions
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Solutions for "slack definitions" questions
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Solutions for "anomalies" questions
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Solutions for "PERT" questions
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Solutions for "priority rules" questions
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Solutions for "generation schemes" questions
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Solutions for "lower bounds" questions
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Solutions for "project lead time" questions
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Solutions for "net present value" questions
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Risk Analysis
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Solutions for "activity distributions" questions
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Solutions for "criticality index" questions
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Solutions for "Pearson’s cruciality index" questions
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Solutions for "Kendall’s tau cruciality index" questions
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Solutions for "Spearman’s cruciality index" questions
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Solutions for "schedule sensitivity index" questions
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Solutions for "significance index" questions
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Solutions for "latest start schedules" questions
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Solutions for "sizing buffers" questions
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Solutions for "cut and paste method" questions
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Solutions for "root squared error method" questions
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Solutions for "adaptive resource tightness method" questions
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Project Control
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Solutions for "schedule adherence" questions
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Symmaries
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Summary BS
Summary of all answers for all questions in the part "Baseline Scheduling" of the book
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Summary RA
Summary of all answers for all questions in the part "Schedule Risk Analysis" of the book
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Summary PC
Summary of all answers for all questions in the part "Project Control" of the book
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E-mail:
mario.vanhoucke@ugent.be
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Also read:
Taking Sound Business Decisions: From Rich Data to Better Solutions
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The Art of Project Management: A Story about Work and Passion
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Integrated Project Management and Control: First comes the theory, then the practice
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Project Management with Dynamic Scheduling: Baseline scheduling, risk analysis and project control
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Measuring Time: Improving project performance using Earned Value Management
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Dynamic Scheduling on your Desktop
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