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Integrated Project Management Sourcebook

A Technical Guide to Project Scheduling, Risk and Control

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Authors:
  1. Mario Vanhoucke

    1. Fac. Economics & Business Administration, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

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  • Includes over 70 short articles on dynamic project
  • planning and control
  • Each article is accompanied by questions and solutions
  • Provides comprehensive and detailed technical calculation methods and tools for effective project management

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Mario Vanhoucke
    Pages 1-6

  3. Baseline Scheduling

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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    2. Preface

      • Mario Vanhoucke
      Pages 9-10

    3. Network Analysis

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      Pages 11-27

    4. Resource Analysis

      • Mario Vanhoucke
      Pages 29-42

    5. Scheduling Techniques

      • Mario Vanhoucke
      Pages 43-105

  4. Schedule Risk Analysis

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107
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    2. Preface

      • Mario Vanhoucke
      Pages 109-110

    3. Schedule Risk Analysis

      • Mario Vanhoucke
      Pages 111-154

    4. Buffer Management

      • Mario Vanhoucke
      Pages 155-193

  5. Project Control

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 195-195
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    2. Preface

      • Mario Vanhoucke
      Pages 197-198

    3. Earned Value Management

      • Mario Vanhoucke
      Pages 199-250

    4. Schedule Control

      • Mario Vanhoucke
      Pages 251-272

  6. Solutions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 273-273
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    2. Solutions

      • Mario Vanhoucke
      Pages 275-287
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About this book

This handbook is a unique, comprehensive resource for professional project managers and students in project management courses that focuses on the integration between baseline scheduling, schedule risk analysis and project control, also known as Dynamic Scheduling or Integrated Project Management and Control. It contains a set of more than 70 articles. Each individual article focuses on one particular topic and features links to other articles in this book, where appropriate. Almost all articles are accompanied with a set of questions, the answers to which are provided at the end of the book.

This book is accompanied by and is based on the Project Management Knowledge Center (www.pmknowledgecenter.com), an online learning platform for Integrated Project Management. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • Fac. Economics & Business Administration, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

    Mario Vanhoucke

About the author

Prof. Dr. Mario Vanhoucke is a Full Professor at Ghent University (Belgium), Vlerick Business School (Belgium) and University College London (UK). He teaches "Project Management", "Applied Operations Research" and "Decision Making for Business". He is director of EVM Europe and partner at the company OR-AS. His research interest lies in the integration of project scheduling, risk management and project control, which has led to more than 60 papers in international journals, three Project Management books published by Springer and an online learning platform entitled PM Knowledge Center. His research has received multiple awards, including awards from PMI Belgium and IP.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Integrated Project Management Sourcebook

  • Book Subtitle: A Technical Guide to Project Scheduling, Risk and Control

  • Authors: Mario Vanhoucke

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27373-0

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-27372-3Published: 04 April 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80124-7Published: 25 April 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-27373-0Published: 12 March 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 287

  • Number of Illustrations: 81 b/w illustrations, 39 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Operations Research/Decision Theory, Operations Research, Management Science, Project Management, Operations Management

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