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Project Management Maturity Model: Providing a Proven Path to Project Management Excellence offers effective strategies for the implementation of efficient project management systems for increased levels of organizational maturity, time and cost conservation, quality assurance, and project success. It details areas critical to organizational improv

This book addresses decision making in reverse logistics, which concerns the integration of used and obsolete products back into the supply chain as valuable resources. It covers a wide range of aspects, related to distribution, production and inventory management, and supply chain management. For each topic, it highlights key managerial issues in real-life examples and explains which quantitative models are available for addressing them. By treating a broad range of issues in a unified way, the...

The long planning horizon of complex projects defy the traditional project management concepts of deterministic schedules, costs, risks, and assumptions. Large cost overruns and benefit shortfalls are all too common. Virtually all major projects involve complex interfaces among diverse stakeholders, many of which have no direct contractual relationships, yet they share critical interfaces that can mean the difference between great success and huge failure. This unique book presents a holistic...

A good strategic game plan can overcome tactical errors with regard to negotiation. ""Win-Win Negotiating"", the fifth volume in the ""ASCE Press Engineering Management"" series, helps the professional to train and prepare the team for the game, how to read and interact with the opposition, and, most importantly, helps define winning and losing before, during, and after the negotiation. The book discusses offensive and defensive strategies, that relate to what losing and winning mean to the nego...

For a combined course in Estimating, Scheduling and/or Control; a course in Construction Process; or an Introduction to Construction Management. Comprehensive and unique in its perspective, this text covers all areas of the Construction Management industry-with a balanced focus on both theory and practicality. It helps students gain a working knowledge of the whole Building Industry, as well as the technical skills required to manage a construction project from conception through occupancy. It...

Best Fit Lines and Curves, and Some Mathe-Magical Transformations (Volume III of the Working Guides to Estimating & Forecasting series) concentrates on techniques for finding the Best Fit Line or Curve to some historical data allowing us to interpolate or extrapolate the implied relationship that will underpin our prediction. A range of simple 'Moving Measures' are suggested to smooth the underlying trend and quantify the degree of noise or scatter around that trend. The advantages and disadvant...

This book examines an issue of constant concern in the construction industry, that of productivity. Using data from Ghana and South Africa, it presents research into the productivity of local contractors in these countries whilst examining the predominance of labour-intensive production methods. The book begins by considering the theoretical and conceptual perspectives on labour productivity in the construction industry in the existing literature, before reviewing current productivity measureme...

What is it about the top tech product companies such as Amazon, Apple, Google, Netflix and Tesla that enables their record of consistent innovation? Most people think it's because these companies are somehow able to find and attract a level of talent that makes this innovation possible. But the real advantage these companies have is not so much who they hire, but rather how they enable their people to work together to solve hard problems and create extraordinary products. As legendary Silicon...

Agile Business Analysis discusses trends in the business analysis and agile environments, how these two areas align and promote each other, and identifies areas of responsibility and ownership for the business analyst (BA). Readers will learn ways BAs can provide support to agile projects through modeling techniques; documentation; communication, meetings and reporting; governance; building user stories, elaborating requirements, and facilitating the estimating process; ensuring effective applic...

This text and CD-ROM package is designed to give readers a strong foundation that will enable them to work effectively with network administrators, network installers, and network designers. Short cases at the beginning of each chapter and examples throughout the book use incidents from a broad range of businesses to provide a real world context for the material. The CD-ROM maps directly to the material and includes tutorials, animations, and interactive exercises.

This text provides a superbly researched insight into Markovian demand inventory models. The result of ten years of research, this work covers all aspects of demand inventory where they are modeled by Markov processes. Inventory management is concerned with matching supply with demand and is a central problem in Operations Management. The central problem is to find the amount to be produced or purchased in order to maximize the total expected profit, or minimize the total expected cost.