Models for Project Management (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Wallace B. Crowston

 
9780656401482: Models for Project Management (Classic Reprint)

Synopsis

Explore the art of planning complex projects with time, resources, and interdependencies.

This concise guide introduces how scheduling models structure planning around different constraint types, from exact start or finish days to dependencies between tasks. You’ll see how a network of tasks can be analyzed to find feasible sequences, best timings, and the impact of limited resources on project flow. Real-world approaches, including PERT and CPM, are explained along with practical challenges and how heuristics help when exact solutions are hard to compute.

  • Understand how time, resource, and interdependency constraints shape a project schedule.
  • Learn concepts like early start, late start, and slack, and how they affect sequencing.
  • Discover heuristic methods used to manage large, complex projects without guaranteed optimal solutions.
  • See how decision and probabilistic networks extend planning to choices and uncertain outcomes.
Ideal for readers who want a practical overview of project scheduling models, methods, and their use in planning, control, and decision making within complex projects.

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