Book description
Apply today's best practices for managing information, processes and people to maximize success within the constraints of project cost, scope and schedule. Benefit from the most effective real-world methods and new tools, such as resource breakdown structures and new treatment of optimum duration, earned value, and integration. Plus, you'll explore a conceptual approach that will help you integrate the most crucial element for project success: people.Table of contents
- Preface
- CHAPTER 1 Introduction to the Calculus of Integration
- CHAPTER 2 Integration through Shared Information
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CHAPTER 3 Project Plan Development
- Pre-Project: The Resource Breakdown Structure
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Initial Focus on Integrating Resources, Costs, and Schedule
- Integration Begins at Project Conception
- A Communications Plan As a Key Integration Tool
- Deliverable Milestones
- A Deliverable WBS Anchors Integration
- The Minimum Effort and the Optimum Duration
- A Bottom-Up Integration: Map the DWBS onto the RBS
- Managing a Network of Elements
- A Schedule from the DWBS and the Network Diagram
- Planning for Monitoring, Evaluation, and Control
- Audits
- The Contract As an Integrating Mechanism
- CHAPTER 4 Execution and Closeout
- CHAPTER 5 Integrating Personnel and Other Interested Parties
- CHAPTER 6 Integration and Integrity
- Bibliography and Notes
- Index
Product information
- Title: Managing Project Integration
- Author(s):
- Release date: August 2002
- Publisher(s): Berrett-Koehler Publishers
- ISBN: 9781567264524
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