Managing and modelling complex projects /

Projects are becoming more complex and traditional project management is proving inadequate. The key papers in this volume, which takes a look at a variety of new approaches, have been written by 13 leading figures and are discussed by 54 invited academics, consultants, contractors and clients from...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Managing and Modelling Complex Projects Kiev, Ukraine, SpringerLink (Online service), North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Scientific Affairs Division
Other Authors: Williams, T. M. (Terry M.) (Editor)
Format: Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer-Science+Business Media, [1997]
Series:NATO ASI series. Science and technology policy ; v. 17.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Welcome to Ukraine / R.V. Shpeck
  • Need for new paradigms for complex projects / T.M. Williams
  • Project planning and control by stochastic network models / D. Golenko-Ginzburg and A. Gonik
  • On the expected completion time of diffusion activity networks (DiAN) / S.E. Elmaghraby and M.K. Aggerwal
  • Time risk : what it drives and how it is driven / C. Chapman and S. Ward
  • System dynamics methods in complex project management / K.G. Cooper
  • Mushroom project model : a note / P. Dunton
  • Managing complex projects in Ukraine / L.I. Romanenko
  • Managing complex software projects - experiences with real-time mission-critical systems / T.P. Conrad
  • Human factors in planning and managing complex infrastructure projects - a Singapore experience / K.T. Yeo
  • Joint project management companies / K. Pannanbäcker
  • Project management globalization and unification for transition and developing economies / V.I. Voropajev
  • Alternative teams in strategic management / D.I. Cleland
  • Managing complex projects by active hierarchical systems / V.I. Voropajev and S.M. Ljubkin
  • Management of medium-size projects portfolio / S.D. Bushuyev.