Project management

A Cost Based Approach to Project Management: Planning and Controlling Construction Project Costs introduces early-career architects, construction managers, civil engineers, and facility managers to the essentials of delivering projects on-time and at cost.

This pioneering book is the first-ever practical guide to developing and communicating technology and engineering strategies.

"e;Building Back Better"e; (BBB) has been a popular slogan in disaster recovery efforts around the world, including the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, the 2009 Samoan Tsunami, the 2010 Haiti Earthquake and the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake.

Projects need leaders who are able to bring out the best in others, unite their teams, engage business partners and facilitate harmonious delivery.

Quantity Surveying Practice: The Nuts and Bolts is a practical guide to quantity surveying in building construction.

With the development of information technology in recent years, there is a growing need to merge different technologies and services, to develop products, services and business models that span different industries.

Dieses Buch zeigt, wie sich Konflikte und Krisen frühzeitig erkennen und analysieren lassen, Krisen überwunden werden und durch welche präventiven Maßnahmen Krisensituationen gar nicht erst entstehen oder ihre Eskalation vermieden wird.

At the turn of the 21st century, a significant boom in the construction of cultural buildings took saw the creation of hundreds of performing arts centers, theaters, and museums.

Do your performance measures seek primarily to detect and control undesirable activities, rather than sharing and rewarding productive behaviour?

Product management is a demanding but exciting career.

Although the nature of service delivery varies significantly from profession to profession, the way the service is delivered tends to be fairly consistent among professions-or, at least, it should be.

Projects generally require skills and effort from multiple disciplines to develop project deliverables.

This book presents the theory and practice of product lifecycle management, chiefly focusing on modern approaches suitable for digitalized enterprises.

With the increase in legislation and the drive for ever-greater efficiency and accountability, health and safety in construction is becoming an increasingly important subject.

Unlike most engineers, system engineers focus on the knowledge base needed to develop good systems in a cross-functional fashion rather than deeply on isolated topics.

Only 39 percent of projects today are successful.

Contractual Procedures in the Construction Industry 7th edition aims to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the subject, and reinforces the changes that are taking place within the construction industry.

Not connecting software project management (SPM) to actual, real-world development processes can lead to a complete divorcing of SPM to software engineering that can undermine any successful software project.

​Dieses Werk zeigt allen, die Veränderungen in Unternehmen initiieren, leiten und begleiten, wie Organisationen sich so organisieren sollten, dass notwenige Veränderungen schnell erkannt und durchgeführt werden.

Understanding project endings is a significant part of project management, yet there is relatively little work published in this important area.

This book gathers a selection of the best papers presented at the joint international conference ICIEOM-CIO-IIE 2015, offering recent research on industrial engineering, management and operations from an international and interdisciplinary perspective.

A rich database of over 2,200 outsourcing arrangements, studied across sectors and geographies, and over time, from inception, through contract signing, to outcomes.

This book defines, develops, and examines the foundations of the APQP (Advanced Product Quality Planning) methodology.

63 New and Updated Patterns for Driving and Sustaining Change "e;The hard part of change is enlisting the support of other people.

Business-Driven IT-Wide Agile (Scrum) and Kanban (Lean) Implementation: An Action Guide for Business and IT Leaders explains how to increase IT delivery capabilities through the use of Agile and Kanban.

In einer zunehmend vernetzten und dynamischen Geschäftswelt ist Wissen der entscheidende Wettbewerbsvorteil.

This primer was written to promote the application of basic and sound supply chain management principles.

The second edition of the Construction Project Manager's Pocket Book maintains its coverage of a broad range of project management skills, from technical expertise to leadership, negotiation, team building and communication.

This book is an excellent best-practice guide for senior managers and directors with innovation responsibilities.

Apply the industrial engineering science of invention and assembly to how software is described, planned, and built, allowing you to be free to flex your practices according to your needs, putting principle over habit and rules.

Exploring complex and intelligent analytical and mathematical methods, this book examines how different approaches can be used to optimize program management in the construction industry.

This book is aimed at people who are involved in, or are about to become involved in, a project or programme.

Agile project management is a proven approach for designing and delivering software with improved value to customers.

Cloud computing is the most significant technology transformation since the introduction of the Internet in the early 1990s.

The role of the business analyst sits at the intersection of business operations, technology, and change management.

In the recent past, computer programs have been used extensively to manage information technology (IT) projects.

Coach Individuals, Teams, and Organizations to Greater Success with Agile As Agilists work to increase an organization's Agility, they will run into major obstacles with mindset shifts, moving to self-organization, and organizational adoption.

With the rise of "e;design and build"e; many more organisations are having to undertake design work; new project organisational structures are developing and many people are migrating into new roles.

Glueoffers a rare gift to project managers.

Traditional strategy assumes stability and predictability.

This book is a guide on how to apply Human-Centered Design (HCD) practices to an Agile product development model that is used widely throughout industry and government, where it is applied primarily to software and technology development efforts.

This book is an essential resource for academics managing a large and complex research project.

As the world becomes increasingly globalized, today's companies expect to hire engineers who are effective in a global business environment.

Teams working in a crisis are operating in a high turbulence environment.