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Summary
Summary
Project management is widely used in the construction industry and is central to planning and controlling time, costs and resources. This book enables readers to perform more effectively, to understand project planning and control procedures and to gain an insight into the associated skills. Numerous case examples from diverse industries and exercises support and illustrate important concepts. The result is a new perspective for project managers: planning can be shown to be a systems synthesis or an inverse problem, which provides a way to reach a satisfactory solution, avoiding the time-consuming or impractical search for the optimal solution.
Author Notes
David Carmichael is a Consulting Engineer, and Professor of Civil Engineering and former Head of the Department of Engineering Construction and Management at The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He is the author and editor of seventeen books in structural and construction engineering and construction and project management.
Table of Contents
| Part A Conventional Treatment from a Systems Perspective |
| Introduction |
| Background |
| Replanning |
| Planning Effort |
| Book Outline |
| Exercises |
| Systems Thinking |
| Introduction |
| Systems-Subsystems Single Level System |
| Fundamental Systems Problems |
| Planning Tools and Terminology A-Z |
| The Planning Process |
| Introduction |
| Planning Problem Components |
| Simplifications to Planning |
| Objectives and Constraints |
| Scope |
| Extras Feeding into and out of Planning |
| Programs |
| General |
| Programs over levels |
| Program time horizons |
| Summary |
| Exercises |
| Planning over Levels |
| Introduction |
| Hierarchical Modelling |
| Levels |
| Control |
| Work Breakdown |
| Iterative Analysis Approach |
| Example |
| Exercises |
| Replanning |
| Introduction |
| Representation |
| Monitoring |
| General |
| Frequency of monitoring |
| Data collection |
| Popular Approaches to Reporting |
| Introduction |
| Common reporting troubles |
| A typical report |
| Cost reporting |
| S curves |
| Milestone reporting |
| Exception reporting |
| Schedule reporting |
| Bar charts |
| Factual networks |
| Earned value |
| Cumulative production plot |
| Delay reporting |
| Replanning Representation |
| Introduction |
| Baseline |
| Project performance better than, or as planned |
| Project performance different to that planned |
| Example |
| Exercises |
| Selected Topics |
| People Issues |
| Introduction |
| Involvement of people |
| Barriers to effective planning |
| Responsibility matrices |
| Replanning issues |
| Exercises |
| Monte Carlo Simulation |
| Introduction |
| Activity duration generation |
| Uniform random numbers |
| Example |
| Criticality index |
| Cost inclusion |
| Example |
| Variance reduction |
| References |
| Exercises |
| Linear Projects |
| Introduction |
| Examples |
| Continuous components |
| Discrete components |
| Replanning |
| Reference |
| Exercises |
| Part B Synthesis Treatment |
| Multistage Planning |
| Introduction |
| Stage Modelling |
| Introduction |
| Planning over the total project duration |
| Objectives and constraints |
| Optimisation Problem |
| A generalisation |
| Examples |
| Introduction |
| Canonical form example |
| Non canonical form example |
| Synthesis over Levels |
| Direct Synthesis Approach |
| Models |
| Level Planning Problems |
| Introduction |
| Constituent level |
| Element level |
| Activity level |
| Project level |
| General comment |
| Multilevel Optimisation Thinking |
| Introduction |
| Decomposition according to the system model |
| Decomposition according to hierarchy |
| Selected Topic |
| Project Compression |
| Introduction |
| Cost-duration relationships |
| The optimisation problem |
| Solution |
| A compromise approach |
| Example |
| References and bibliography |
