Covers roles and responsibilities of the project manager, risk management, and project records and reports. This second edition reflects contributions to the field from software engineers and system engineers, including improvements in requirements specification, work breakdown structures, project control, and risk management. Appendices include work breakdown structure paradigms, cost versus time profiles, and checklists to assess work done. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Covering the roles and responsibilities of the project manager, this second edition describes requirement specifications, work breakdown structures, project control and risk management, and offers new information on motivation, matrix arrangements, and project records. Discussing the anatomy of a project planning and control and techniques, the authors describe the project manager's entire range of responsibilities from initial planning to directing personnel, controlling work, and reporting results. The appendices cover work breakdown structure paradigms, cost versus time profiles, and checklists to assess work done.
Covering the roles and responsibilities of the project manager, What Every Engineer Should Know about Project Management, Second Edition describes requirement specifications, work breakdown structures, project control, and risk management while offering added information on motivation, matrix arrangements, and project records. Discussing the anatomy of a project, planning and control, and techniques, the authors describe the project manager's entire range of responsibilities from initial planning to directing personnel, controlling work, and reporting results. The appendices cover work breakdown structure paradigms, cost versus time profiles, and checklists to assess work done.