This title equips project managers with the skills necessary to effectively manage projects as strategic investments. In today's challenging commercial environment, many business projects are now categorized as strategic investment with the primary concern being value impact on an organization's bottom line. Project benefit attainments usually ......
Software engineering from a project point of view embarks on software products that are both feasible technically and financially. Moreover, software projects must be completed on time and within budgets and are important challenges to software engineers. Research has shown that one-third of software projects are never completed, another third do ......
Research on the topic of steel frames with semi-rigid connections (Partially Restrained (PR) construction or PR connection) has been conducted over the past 10 years. Despite significant research and development efforts, usage of PR principles has nevertheless been very slow in coming to the profession caused in part by the lack of easy access to ......
This book delivers a detailed examination of the risk management function for portfolio managers, program managers, and the PMO function. Organisations invest a lot of time, money, and energy into developing and utilizing risk management practices as part of their project management disciplines. Yet, when you move beyond the project to the ......
This is an indispensible working tool for anyone involved in the management of residential construction projects. This book provides construction managers with a concise and practical guide to managing residential construction projects across their entire lifecycle - initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, controlling, and closing. By ......
The opioid epidemic is laying waste to America. Overdose deaths have decimated a generation and lowered overall life expectancy. Between the greed of Big Pharma, the war on drugs, and ineffectual treatment, addicts and their families face an uphill battle in getting the help they need. But there is a way out! Noted recovery professionals Eric ......
Pulsation in Architecture highlights the role of digital design as the catalyst for a new spatial sensibility related to rhythmic perception. It proposes a novel critical reception of computational architecture based on the ability of digital design to move beyond mere instrumentality, and to engage with core aspects of the discipline: the ......
This volume offers project managers, trainers, teachers, and students a step-by-step guide to project quality management process. The first, award-winning, edition of Project Quality Management, offered project managers a specific, succinct, step-by-step project quality management process found nowhere else. This second edition has been fully ......
A guide to the most common project management problems for new and accidental project managers. It covers both the art and science of project management, and provides peer-reviewed solutions for some of the most common project management problems.
