Table of Contents

Preface to the ninth edition; Introduction to project management; Factors for project success or failure; Defining the project task; Estimating the project costs; First steps in planning the timescale; Financial appraisal and the business plan; Risk; Project authorization; Project organization structures; Organization of business change and IT projects; Key people in the organization; Work breakdown structure; Completing the breakdown structures; Detailed planning: an introduction to critical path networks; Detailed planning: critical path networks in practice; Principles of resource scheduling; Scheduling people (and other re-usable resources); Scheduling materials; Scheduling cash flows; Computer applications; Project start-up; Aspects of commercial management; Managing procurement; Managing progress; Managing changes; Managing project costs; Earned value analysis and cost reporting; Managing multiple projects, programmes and portfolios; More advanced or less frequently used techniques; Managing project closure; Bibliography; Index.

About the Author

Dennis Lock is a freelance writer who specializes in project management. His exceptionally wide industrial experience has included subminiature electronics, defence systems, heavy engineering and international mining, with a progression of successful management positions in all of those industries. He has fulfilled consultancy assignments in Britain and overseas and in recent years has taught project management to masters degree students as an external lecturer at two British universities. Of over 30 books that he has written or edited, almost all have been published by Gower.