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Project Management Journal
Development of a knowledge-based schedule planning system
Project scheduling systems are essential tools for helping inexperienced project managers plan and monitor projects and for helping experienced project professionals analyze and evaluate project…
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Project Management Journal
The project manager
Because all projects involve some degree of uncertainty, project managers must not only act as effective risk takers but also perform as flexible contingency planners. This article examines how…
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Project Management Journal
A history of the project management applications in the utility industry
Project management has long been used by utility companies both to develop special initiatives and to resolve typical operating problems. This article examines the ways companies have practiced…
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Project Management Journal
Integrating design and construction to improve project performance
Construction industry projects contain many inherent hurdles that can negatively impact the project team's performance. But by using an approach that integrates the design and construction phases,…
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Project Management Journal
Effective controls for large scale construction projects
Realizing large construction projects is a difficult multi-activity endeavor that is only successfully achieved--meeting time, cost, and quality requirements--when project managers use effective…
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Project Management Journal
Determinants of construction project success
By repeating established project management practices, project managers working in the construction industry can more effectively realize projects that meet the owner's expected cost, schedule,…
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Project Management Journal
Quality management
Part four in a series of seven articles. Each article examines one of the seven project management functions outlined in PMI Project #121, PMIs effort to create a project management body of…
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Project Management Journal
Quality management is an opportunity
A brief discussion of the quality management aspects of project management.
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Project Management Journal
Evaluation in the project management environment
Using a project management approach when realizing projects provides project managers with the structure they need to most effectively evaluate project performance. This article examines the process…
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Project Management Journal
Innovative approaches to quality assurance in project management
The emergence of new manufacturing technologies--for producing everything from cars to buildings to interior furniture--have increased production efficiency and product features and decreased…
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