Quantitative Methods in Project Management

John Goodpasture

ISBN 10: 1932159150 / ISBN 13: 9781932159158

Published by J Ross Publishing, US, 2003

About this Item

This is a practitioner's book, combining theoretical and practical applications for project professionals. It is a loosely coupled work flow that takes PM's through the most important quantitative methods, integrates them, and shows interrelationships that cannot be obtained by separate readings. These practical methods can be applied easily by project practitioners who are not steeped in theory and need to know how to make everyday use of numerical analysis in projects. This book also covers financial and life cycle risk as well as risk for the project itself and contains unique extensions to earned value and project initiation. This book will be of particular interest to project managers, program managers, project administrators, system engineers, cost and risk estimators, as well as continuing education and seminar providers.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Quantitative Methods in Project Management
• Publisher: J Ross Publishing, US
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1932159150
• ISBN 13: 9781932159158
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 522 grams

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Synopsis

This is a practitioner's book, combining theoretical and practical applications for project professionals. It is a loosely coupled work flow that takes PM's through the most important quantitative methods, integrates them, and shows interrelationships that cannot be obtained by separate readings. These practical methods can be applied easily by project practitioners who are not steeped in theory and need to know how to make everyday use of numerical analysis in projects. This book also covers financial and life cycle risk as well as risk for the project itself and contains unique extensions to earned value and project initiation. This book will be of particular interest to project managers, program managers, project administrators, system engineers, cost and risk estimators, as well as continuing education and seminar providers.

About the Author

John Goodpasture is President, Square Peg Consulting, Inc., a consulting firm in the field of project management. He has an MS in Electrical Engineering and over 35 years of work experience in complex multi-million-dollar programs and projects in the defense, intelligence, aerospace and commercial industries. John is the author of Managing Projects for Value, has authored dozens of articles in PM Network magazine, and has authored and presented numerous papers and several unique quantitative techniques to PMI National Symposium. He is an experienced and sought-after speaker, instructor, and lecturer.