What Every Engineer Should Know About Project Management

From Preface to Second Edition: "Project management has evolved at a pace that we could hardly imagine when we wrote the first edition. Both software engineers and system engineers have influenced project management considerably as they have brought their particular insights and approaches to projects. Prominent among their contributions are improvements in requirements specification, work breakdown structures, project control, and risk management. This second edition was motivated primarily by the need to describe these advances to our readers. Having decided to prepare a second edition, we also took the opportunity to fine-tune the rest of the book. We have adjusted the discussions of the anatomy of a project, the role and responsibilities of the project manager, and negotiating, and we have added new material on motivation, matrix arrangements, and project records. While matrix arrangements are not yet ubiquitous, they are becoming so common that every engineer should know how to operate in a matrix situation. This book is written by engineers for engineers, but it is not for engineers alone." Contents include: * Anatomy of a Project [Life Cycles, Boundaries, Inputs, Outputs, Interfaces] * Roles & responsibilities of the Project Manager * Planning Techniques * Control Techniques * Risk Management * Coordinating and Directing Techniques * Project Records and Reports * Negotiating