Incomplete or missed requirements, omissions, ambiguous product features, lack of user involvement, unrealistic customer expectations, and the proverbial scope creep can result in cost overruns, missed deadlines, poor product quality, and can very well ruin a project. Project Sc…
Introduction to Scope Management: Who? What? Why?Historical Perspective: The Rusted Staple Story Why Write a Book about Project Scope Management? Current State of Project Scope Management Key Problems with Scope Port Upgrade: Container Terminal Construction Project Wireless Comp…
The book shows how to use Planning by Design (PxD) for developing working models to any type of subject area. Section 1 describes the nature of planning in general, the formula of planning, the features that make it systematic, the essence of PxD, and developing and using the wo…
This book assesses the state of international manufacturing strategy and clarifies how recent developments, for example regarding configuration, technology, and the environment, are impacting on its content and direction and on its relationship to manufacturing performance. In p…
Take your productivity to the next level and make the most of your time. Do you have too much to do and not enough time to do it? Productivity For Dummies shows you how to overcome this common problem by tackling key issues that are preventing you from remaining focused and maki…
This book presents a systematic approach to mathematical modelling of different configurations of hydro power plants, their simulation studies, and performance of controlled systems, and offers a focused critical insight into new trends for their operation and control.
Supply chain scheduling is a relatively new research area with less than 20 years of history. It is an intersection of two traditional areas: supply chain management and scheduling. In this book, the authors provide a comprehensive coverage of supply chain scheduling. The book c…
Today's complexity, speed, and need for adaptation are putting organizations under stress. Understanding how organizations function and truly come alive has become a critical competency. And yet, organizations still seem to lack a solid understanding of what constitutes meaningf…
This book explores opportunities and limitations with regard to transferring knowledge and tools from the corporate world to manage monasteries or other types of religious institutions. To do so, the contributing authors analyze both the ideological and practical implications of…
This book includes 21 chapters that discusses the following topics: Towards the new trend of power grids; Wind energy; Solar energy; Ocean energy: tidal energy; Ocean energy: wave and thermal energy; Biomass energy; Electrical energy storage; Mechanical energy storage systems; C…
This book includes 21 chapters that discusses the following topics: Towards the new trend of power grids; Wind energy; Solar energy; Ocean energy: tidal energy; Ocean energy: wave and thermal energy; Biomass energy; Electrical energy storage; Mechanical energy storage systems; C…
Designed to challenge and inspire anyone who is seeking a deeper understanding of management, Lessons in Leadership provides a series of reflections on the very fundamentals of leadership as a management function.In the midst of current global concerns about the quality of leade…
Many real-time systems rely on static scheduling algorithms. This includes cyclic scheduling, rate monotonic scheduling and fixed schedules created by off-line scheduling techniques such as dynamic programming, heuristic search, and simulated annealing. However, for many real-ti…
John Friedmann addresses a central question of Western political theory: how, and to what extent, history can be guided by reason. In this comprehensive treatment of the relation of knowledge to action, which he calls planning, he traces the major intellectual traditions of plan…
