The Engineering Project Management Handbook (Paperback)

Paperback. You can build the thing. Can you run the project?You can design the system, run the analysis, and verify the result. Then someone hands you a project - and overnight the job is schedules, budgets, stakeholders, risk, and a hundred decisions a week your engineering training never covered.This handbook is written for that engineer. It teaches project management the way an engineer learns best: as a system, with the parts shown to fit together rather than scattered as a list of tips.The organizing idea is that a well-run project is a control loop: The baseline is the set point.Earned value and the metrics are the sensor.Variance analysis is the comparator.The project manager and the governance are the controller.The risks are the disturbances the loop exists to reject.If you already think in control systems, tolerances, interfaces, and verification, you are most of the way there - you mainly need to transpose those habits and learn the human and organizational dimensions your degree skipped.What makes this handbook differentEvery formula is worked. Estimating mathematics, critical-path forward and backward passes, earned-value calculations, three-point estimates, decision trees, and quantitative risk analysis appear as calculations carried through on real numbers - so you follow the method and check your own work, instead of memorizing a formula you never see applied.One project runs through the entire book. A single capital project threads from the first planning chapter to the last, its numbers consistent across all 38 chapters. Four further case studies - a compressed-schedule launch, a fixed-price dispute, a hybrid hardware-and-firmware program, and a recovery - put the principles under different kinds of pressure.It is honest about the hard parts. The silent quality trade. The optimism that underestimates every project. The dashboard that reports green while the project slides. The project that should be stopped but isn't. This book names those failure patterns and shows the disciplines that prevent them.Inside, you will findThe work breakdown structure, estimating, and critical-path schedulingBudgeting, earned value, and cost controlRisk identification, analysis, and responseExecution, monitoring, change control, and qualityLeading a team you don't control, communication, and negotiationProcurement and contractsAgile, hybrid delivery, and AI-assisted project workPrograms, portfolios, recovery, and closeoutA full appendix set adds templates, a formula reference card, a schedule-quality checklist, calibration worksheets, a meeting-cadence pack, a glossary, and worked solutions.Run your next project like the engineer you already areThe next project you are handed will not wait while you learn this on the job. Put a complete project-management system on your desk before you need it - get your copy of The Engineering Project Management Handbook today. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…