Description
Book SynopsisProject Management Planning explores the science and art of handling planned responsibility and unexpected conditions. The processes of planning contents (initiating, planning, executing, controlling, closing) and the attributes of planning contents (scope, time, resources, cost, quality, risk, benefit, others) are generally common. For that reason, comprehensive project management planning applies across all types of projects and all kinds of planning situations, including, for example, the Agile sequence of shortterm investments or in Critical Chain Buffer management.
Evidence shows two massive gaps in project management planning across the field, which this book hopes to address. The first gap is between current project management planning and its potential as a practical discipline. The second gap is between project management system knowledge and its potential as an applied research discipline. This book first explains how a project management plan develops from
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations – Acknowledgments – Foreword – Preface – Overview of Project Management Planning – Time and Resource in Project Management Planning – Cost in Project Management Planning – Best Practice in Project Management Planning – Project Management System Logic – Where Is Planning in (Project) Management Going Next? – Derivative Project Management Planning – Notes, Integrated Definitions, Readings – Bibliography – Index.
