Project Preparation and Management

The material assembled here attempts to hold those two halves together. Quantitative technique is given full weight. Network analysis, probabilistic scheduling, time–cost compression, resource levelling under ceilings, discounted cash flow criteria and earned value analysis are all developed through complete worked examples in which every arithmetic step is visible, because students are rarely defeated by the idea and frequently defeated by the computation. Alongside these sit the softer determinants of project outcomes, organisational form, authority without hierarchy, team formation, conflict, motivation, stakeholder politics, which the record of failed projects suggests matter at least as much as the mathematics.