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Article Decision Making, Scheduling October 2014

PM Network

Brazil goes for fast-tracking gold

By Fister Gale, Sarah Learning lessons from the 2014 World Cup, as the city of Rio de Janiero gears up for the 2016 Summer Olympic Games, project managers are looking to fast-track construction schedules to make up for…

Conference Paper Scheduling, Strategy, Decision Making 5 May 2014

Strategic value management

By Thiry, Michel Beginning with an outline of the evolution of value management from value engineering/analysis into a strategic management approach, this paper applies value management as a strategy formulation and…

Article Risk Management, Scheduling, Decision Making February 2014

Project Management Journal

A new decision making model for subcontractor selection and its order allocation

By Abbasianjahromi, Hamidreza | Rajaie, Hossein | Shakeri, Eghbal | Chokan, Farzad All experts agree on the importance of subcontracting. The high impact of subcontractors on the construction process means that the selection of subcontractors is a sensitive activity. Previous…

Conference Paper Scheduling, Decision Making, Risk Management, Strategy, Cost Management 23 October 2012

Project risk analysis to support strategic and project management

By El-Mehalawi, Mohamed E. Successful project cost and schedule risk management is always capable of informing project management of "where the project is" and "where the project is going" in the future. Current project…

Article Scheduling, Decision Making August 2012

PM Network

Mind your business

By Fretty, Peter Truly successful project managers don't just bring in their projects on budget, on schedule and within scope. They also understand their business, their industry and how their projects align…

Article Decision Making, Scheduling, Ethics, Quality Management July 2012

PM Network

Going against the grain

By Starke, Steven Often the project manager's focus is to execute to the best of his or her ability according to the charter, which puts project managers in the best position to go against the grain and recommend a…

Article Scheduling, Decision Making, Construction February 2012

Project Management Journal

Knowledge acquisition using psychotherapy technique for critical factors influencing construction project layout planning

By Abdul-Rahman, Hamzah | Wang, Chen | Siong, Eng Khe The positioning of equipment on a construction site may change in different construction phases, different environments, and different types of end products, which greatly influence the decision of…

Article Scheduling, Decision Making, Stakeholder Engagement, Construction March 2007

PM Network

Heavy metal

By Liao, Janet Building a large manufacturing facility in a small town that values its tourist culture and its natural setting could easily become a project fiercely contested by the local community. But when…

Conference Paper Decision Making, Scheduling, Cost Management 8 November 2006

El análisis costo-tiempo utilizando el método de precedencias mejorado para determinar el presupuesto mínimo y el tiemo óptimo de un proyecto

By Rodríguez Castillejo, Walter | Valdez Cáceres, Doris In project scheduling, the precedence networks method is the most generalized for performing cost-time analyses. The purpose of this paper is to propose a simple, improved model of the precedence…

Conference Paper Scheduling, Decision Making, Strategy, Risk Management 2006

Expected utility theory as a guide to contingency allocation

By Thibadeau, Barbara | Edirisinghe, Chanaka Contingency--for both budgets and schedules--provides project managers with the estimating cushion they need to protect their projects from cost and time overruns. Effectively allocating these…