Project Management with Dynamic Scheduling
Baseline Scheduling, Risk Analysis and Project Control
Authors: Vanhoucke, Mario
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- Topics based on many research projects and real-life projects
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The topic of this book is known as dynamic scheduling, and is used to refer to three dimensions of project management and scheduling: the construction of a baseline schedule and the analysis of a project schedule’s risk as preparation of the project control phase during project progress. This dynamic scheduling point of view implicitly assumes that the usability of a project’s baseline schedule is rather limited and only acts as a point of reference in the project life cycle. Consequently, a project schedule should especially be considered as nothing more than a predictive model that can be used for resource efficiency calculations, time and cost risk analyses, project tracking and performance measurement, and so on.
In this book, the three dimensions of dynamic scheduling are highlighted in detail and are based on and inspired by a combination of academic research studies at Ghent University (www.ugent.be), in-company trainings at Vlerick Business School (www.vlerick.com) and consultancy projects at OR-AS (www.or-as.be). First, the construction of a project baseline schedule is a central theme throughout the various chapters of the book, and is discussed from a complexity point of view with and without the presence of project resources. Second, the creation of an awareness of the weak parts in a baseline schedule is discussed at the end of the two baseline scheduling parts as schedule risk analysis techniques that can be applied on top of the baseline schedule. Third, the baseline schedule and its risk analyses can be used as guidelines during the project control step where actual deviations can be corrected within the margins of the project’s time and cost reserves.
The second edition of this book has seen corrections, additions and amendments in detail throughout the book. Moreover Chapter 15 on "Dynamic Scheduling with ProTrack" has been completely rewritten and extended with a section on "ProTrack as a research tool".
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From the reviews of the second edition:
“This book is brought in such a way that it is able to inform a wide audience about the current state-of-the-art principles in dynamic project scheduling. The target audience can consist of undergraduate or MBA students following a project management course, participants of company trainings with a focus on scheduling or software users who search for added value when using software tools. … I recommend this book as a compliment to your project management studies and especially for those already working in this area.” (Inspire and Action blog, inspireandaction.wordpress.com, December, 2013)
- Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-8
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The PERT/CPM Technique
Pages 11-35
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The Critical Path Method
Pages 37-57
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The VMW Project
Pages 59-79
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Schedule Risk Analysis
Pages 81-100
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Project Management with Dynamic Scheduling
- Book Subtitle
- Baseline Scheduling, Risk Analysis and Project Control
- Authors
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- Mario Vanhoucke
- Copyright
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Copyright Holder
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-642-40438-2
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-642-40438-2
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-642-40437-5
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-662-52137-3
- Edition Number
- 2
- Number of Pages
- XVIII, 318
- Number of Illustrations
- 123 b/w illustrations
- Topics
