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Book SynopsisA complete guide to managing technical issues and procuring third-party resources
The Wiley Guides to the Management of Projects address critical, need-to-know information that will help professionals successfully manage projects in most businesses and help students learn the best practices of the industry. They contain not only well-known and widely used basic project management practices but also the newest and most cutting-edge concepts in the broader theory and practice of managing projects.
This fourth volume in the series offers expert guidance on the supply chain and delivery cycle of the project, as well as the technology management issues that are involved such as modeling, design, and verification. Technology within the context of the management of projects involves not so much actually doing the technical elements of the project as managing the processes and practices by which projects are transformed from concepts into actual entities-and doing thi
Table of ContentsThe Wiley Guide to Project Technology, Supply Chain & Procurement Management: Preface and Introduction vii
1 Requirements Management in a Project Management Context 1
Alan M. Davis, Ann M. Hickey, and Ann S. Zweig
2 Design Management 32
Peter Harpum
3 Concurrent Engineering for Integrated Product Development 60
Hans J. Thamhain
4 Process and Product Modeling 81
Rachel Cooper, Ghassan Aouad, Angela Lee, and Song Wu
5 Managing Configurations and Data for Effective Project Management 108
Callum Kidd and Thomas F. Burgess
6 Safety, Health, and Environment 124
Alistair Gibb
7 Verification 155
Hal Mooz
8 Managing Technology: Innovation, Learning, and Maturity 177
Rodney Turner and Anne Keegan
9 Integrated Logistic Support and All That: A Review of Through-Life Project Management 201
David Kirkpatrick, Steve McInally, and Daniela Pridie-Sale
10 Project Supply Chain Management: Optimizing Value: The Way We Manage the Total Supply Chain225
Ray Venkataraman
11 Procurement: Process Overview and Emerging Project Management Techniques 247
Mark E. Nissen
12 Procurement Systems 258
David Langford and Mike Murray
13 Tender Management 282
George Steel
14 Contract Management 317
David Lowe
15 Project Changes: Sources, Impacts, Mitigation, Pricing, Litigation, and Excellence 347
Kenneth G. Cooper and Kimberly Sklar Reichelt
Index 377
