The Data-Driven Project Manager | Taschenbuch

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Beschreibung

Discover solutions to common obstacles faced by project managers. Written as a business novel, the book is highly interactive, allowing readers to participate and consider options at each stage of a project. The book is based on years of experience, both through the author's research projects as well as his teaching lectures at business schools.

The book tells the story of Emily Reed and her colleagues who are in charge of the management of a new tennis stadium project. The CEO of the company, Jacob Mitchell, is planning to install a new data-driven project management methodology as a decision support tool for all upcoming projects. He challenges Emily and her team to start a journey in exploring project data to fight against unexpected project obstacles.

Data-driven project management is known in the academic literature as ¿dynamic scheduling¿ or ¿integrated project management and control.¿ It is a project management methodology to plan, monitor, and control projects in progress in order to deliver them on time and within budget to the client. Its main focus is on the integration of three crucial aspects, as follows:

Baseline Scheduling: Plan the project activities to create a project timetable with time and budget restrictions. Determine start and finish times of each project activity within the activity network and resource constraints. Know the expected timing of the work to be done as well as an expected impact on the project¿s time and budget objectives.

Schedule Risk Analysis: Analyze the risk of the baseline schedule and its impact on the project¿s time and budget. Use Monte Carlo simulations to assess the risk of the baseline schedule and to forecast the impact of time and budget deviations on the project objectives.

Project Control: Measure and analyze the project¿s performance data and take actions to bring the project ontrack. Monitor deviations from the expected project progress and control performance in order to facilitate the decision-making process in case corrective actions are needed to bring projects back on track. Both traditional Earned Value Management (EVM) and the novel Earned Schedule (ES) methods are used.

What You'll Learn

Implement a data-driven project management methodology (also known as "dynamic scheduling") which allows project managers to plan, monitor, and control projects while delivering them on time and within budget
Study different project management tools and techniques, such as PERT/CPM, schedule risk analysis (SRA), resource buffering, and earned value management (EVM)
Understand the three aspects of dynamic scheduling: baseline scheduling, schedule risk analysis, and project control

Who This Book Is For

Project managers looking to learn data-driven project management (or "dynamic scheduling") via a novel, demonstrating real-time simulations of how project managers can solve common project obstacles

What You'll Learn

Who This Book Is For

Project managers looking to learn data-driven project management (or "dynamic scheduling") via a novel, demonstrating real-time simulations of how project managers can solve common project obstacles

Über den Autor

Mario Vanhoucke is a professor at Ghent University (Belgium), Vlerick Business School (Belgium), and a senior teaching fellow at UCL School of Management (University College London, UK). He has previously written books about project scheduling, risk analysis, and project control. As a professor and researcher, Mario is constantly looking for better ways to measure, improve, and optimize the performance of projects in progress and their resource efficiency. Mario has a background in operations research and management science, and aims at combining research with practice. As a founder of the "Operations Research & Scheduling" research group and leader of more than a million euro research projects, Mario sets up collaborations with national and international companies, together with universities in the UK, the USA, and China. He is very active at the Belgian Chapter of the Project Management Institute (PMI) and has been awarded by the International Project Management Association (IPMA). Mario also writes his own project management software tools, both as standalone desktop versions and as integrative tools in company software environments. Mario shares his ideas at various international conferences.

Zusammenfassung

Structured as a novel, this book provides real-time simulations of how project managers can solve common project obstacles

Teaches a data-driven project management methodology which allows project managers to plan, monitor, and control projects while delivering them on time and within budget

Focuses on integration of three crucial aspects: baseline scheduling, schedule risk analysis, and project control

Presents different project management planning tools and techniques, such as PERT/CPM, to compare the expected risk of two very similar projects

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Background.- Chapter 2: Plan.- Chapter 3: Risk.- Chapter 4: Buffer.- Chapter 5: Monitor.- Chapter 6: Control.- Chapter 7: Exciting Times Ahead.- Chapter 8: Afterword.- Bibliography.-

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2018
Fachbereich:	Management
Genre:	Wirtschaft
Rubrik:	Recht & Wirtschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	xiii 158 S. 25 s/w Illustr. 158 p. 25 illus.
ISBN-13:	9781484234976
ISBN-10:	1484234979
Sprache:	Englisch
Herstellernummer:	978-1-4842-3497-6
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Vanhoucke, Mario
Auflage:	1st ed.
Hersteller:	Apress Apress L.P.
Maße:	235 x 155 x 10 mm
Von/Mit:	Mario Vanhoucke
Erscheinungsdatum:	05.04.2018
Gewicht:	0,277 kg

Artikel-ID: 111012648