PROJECT MANAGEMENT, SECOND EDITION: Edition 2

GUPTA, RAJEEV M.

Mar 2014 · PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.

About this eBook

The Second Edition of this comprehensive book, discusses the fundamental aspects of Project Management in a student-friendly manner. It deals with topics such as project life cycle, project selection, feasibility study and techniques like PERT and CPM for project control. Various methods such as Hiller model, sensitivity analysis and simulations are described with hypothetical numerical examples to evaluate risk.

A new chapter on International Aspects of Project Management is added to provide the knowledge of project management at international level. Several new case studies have also been added to provide better learning of the various concepts of the subject. Besides these, most of the chapters have been updated with new figures and more practical problems.

Primarily designed for the undergraduate and postgraduate students of management and engineering (industrial and civil engineering), the book will be equally useful to the practicing professionals of project management.

KEY FEATURES OF THE BOOK

• Includes algorithms for crashing and resource leveling.

• Provides a new method for determining marketing feasibility.

• Describes quantitative methodology for evaluating risk

AUDIENCE

• Undergraduate and Postgraduate students of Management and Engineering (Industrial and Civil Engineering).

About the author

RAJEEV M. GUPTA a Project Consultant, is a Visiting Faculty at various B-Schools—SGSITS, IMS, PIMR, and Jaipuria institute. Mr. Gupta has also worked as full time faculty at SGSITS, Indore and has overall more than twenty three years of teaching and professional experience, especially in the field of project and operation management. He is an expert member in the boards of studies at DOMS, SGSITS Indore. He has also delivered lectures at premium universities of Bangkok including Chulalongkorn University, Stamford University and Rangsit University.