Managing and Modelling Complex Projects

✍ Scribed by Terry M. Williams (auth.), Terry M. Williams (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 241
• Series: NATO ASI Series 17
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Projects are becoming more complex and traditional project management is proving inadequate. The key papers in this volume, which takes a look at a variety of new approaches, have been written by 13 leading figures and are discussed by 54 invited academics, consultants, contractors and clients from 15 countries.
The papers cover modelling techniques (extensions to PERT methods, risk analysis, and system dynamics), particular domains (new technology, software development and infrastructure projects, specifically human factors), corporate structures (from both Western and Eastern European perspectives), management techniques (Western and Eastern), and the management of portfolios of projects.
The book adopts a wide view, rather than advocating one technique: the mix of authors provides a rich, heterogeneous perspective. Mathematical modelling is balanced with human management, and over-complex of simplistic techniques are avoided. Readers are assumed already to have a sound knowledge of project management.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 1-3
Front Matter....Pages 5-5
Welcome to Ukraine....Pages 7-8
The Need for New Paradigms for Complex Projects....Pages 9-18
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Project Planning and Control by Stochastic Network Models....Pages 21-45
On the Expected Completion Time of Diffusion Activity Networks (DiAN)....Pages 47-67
Time Risk: What It Drives and How It is Driven....Pages 69-88
System Dynamics Methods in Complex Project Management....Pages 89-108
Front Matter....Pages 109-109
The Mushroom Project Model: A Note....Pages 111-115
Managing Complex Projects in Ukraine....Pages 117-122
Managing Complex Software Projects....Pages 123-146
Human Factors in Planning and Managing Complex Infrastructure Projects-A Singapore Experience....Pages 147-163
Front Matter....Pages 165-165
Joint Project Management Companies....Pages 167-172
Project Management Globalization and Unification for Transition and Developing Economies....Pages 173-201
Front Matter....Pages 203-203
Alternative Teams in Strategic Management....Pages 205-219
Managing Complex Projects by Active Hierarchical Systems....Pages 221-236
Front Matter....Pages 237-237
Management of Medium-Size Projects Portfolio....Pages 241-254
Front Matter....Pages 255-255
Conclusions and Further Research....Pages 255-257

✦ Subjects

Management/Business for Professionals; Operation Research/Decision Theory; Engineering, general; Mechanical Engineering; Systems Theory, Control