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Engineering project management : a hands-on guide for successful engineering projects / Neil G. Siegel.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2025Edition: Second editionDescription: xxiv, 440 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781394242986
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Engineering project management.DDC classification:
  • 23/eng/20240611 658.404 Si154e
LOC classification:
  • TA190 .S586 2024
Contents:
The role and the challenge -- Performing engineering on projects (initial portion) -- Performing engineering on projects (concluding portion) -- Understanding your users and your other stakeholders -- How do engineering projects get created? -- Organizing and planning -- Creating credible predictions for schedule and cost: the activity network -- Drawing valid conclusions from numbers -- Risk and opportunity management -- Monitoring the progress of your project (initial portion) -- Monitoring the progress of your project (concluding portion) -- Four special topics -- The social aspects of engineering project management -- Achieving quality -- Applying our ideas in the real world, ethics of engineering.
Summary: "Project management incorporates both the people-related and technical requirements necessary for the successful management of engineering projects, as well as the organizational and strategic aspects. Engineering-focused project management centers around the processes that are used to produce, process, and service engineering-based innovation projects from idea through relevant analyses to launch. It also relates innovation to improvements in products, processes, and competitive advantage"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes index.

The role and the challenge -- Performing engineering on projects (initial portion) -- Performing engineering on projects (concluding portion) -- Understanding your users and your other stakeholders -- How do engineering projects get created? -- Organizing and planning -- Creating credible predictions for schedule and cost: the activity network -- Drawing valid conclusions from numbers -- Risk and opportunity management -- Monitoring the progress of your project (initial portion) -- Monitoring the progress of your project (concluding portion) -- Four special topics -- The social aspects of engineering project management -- Achieving quality -- Applying our ideas in the real world, ethics of engineering.

"Project management incorporates both the people-related and technical requirements necessary for the successful management of engineering projects, as well as the organizational and strategic aspects. Engineering-focused project management centers around the processes that are used to produce, process, and service engineering-based innovation projects from idea through relevant analyses to launch. It also relates innovation to improvements in products, processes, and competitive advantage"-- Provided by publisher.

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