IMPLEMENTING CONCURRENT PROJECT MANAGEMENT

1. Concurrent new product development. 1.1 Introduction. 1.2 Hierarchy of organizations. 1.3 Hierarchy of concurrent product development. 1.4 Comparison with traditional process. 1.5 Motivation for concurrent new product development. 1.6 The people involved. 1.7 The psychology of human behavior in concurrent project management. 1.8 Top management must change, first. 1.9 Product champions. 1.10 Case studies- A reference to chapter 9. 1.10 Implementation of concurrent project management. 1.11 Total quality management. 1.12 Problems. 2. Concurrent planning. 2.1 Introduction. 2.2 Functional specification. 2.3 The project description. 2.4 The plan network. 2.5 Problems. 3. Concurrent scheduling. 3.1 Introduction. 3.2 Definitions. 3.3 Calculating activity durations. 3.4 Determining the critical path. 3.5 The more meaningful project schedules 3.6 Parallel paths. 3.7 Activity slack. 3.8 Problems. 4. Concurrent scheduling part2" resources allocation. 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Resources allocation. 4.3 Problems. 5. Cost. 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Generation of the predicted cost. 6. The report/ proposal. 7. Multiple projects. 7.1 Introduction 7.2 The procedure. 7.3 The Procedure applied to three simulataneous projects. 8. Concurrent control. 8.1 Introduction 8.2 Decision making 8.3 Additional suggestion 8.3 Observation 8.4 Control 8.5 Reporting progress and status. 9. Case studies. 9.1 Introduction. 9.2 Column gauge 9.3 Dial bore gauge. 9.4 Laser surgical system. 9.5 IBM proprinter.

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