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by Neil G. Siegel
Engineering Project Management
Cover
Engineering Project Management
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Companion Website
Introduction
Concept of the Book
1 The Role and the Challenge
1.1 Introduction
1.2 The Project
1.3 The Project Manager
1.4 Engineering Processes Can Help You
1.5 The Engineering Project Manager Mind‐Set
1.6 Next
1.7 About Facilitated Lab Sessions and Practical Exercises
1.8 This Week's Facilitated Lab Session
2 Performing Engineering on Projects (Part I)
2.1 The Systems Method
2.2 Requirements
2.3 Design
2.4 Interaction of the Requirements and Design Processes with Project Management Processes
2.5 Your Role in All of This
2.6 Next
2.7 This Week's Facilitated Lab Session
3 Performing Engineering on Projects (Part II)
3.1 The Remaining Stages of the Project Life‐Cycle
3.2 Next
3.3 This Week's Facilitated Lab Session
4 Understanding Your Users and Your Other Stakeholders
4.1 The Four Steps to Understanding Your Users and Your Other Stakeholders
4.2 Case Study About the Value of Using the Customer's Coordinate System of Value: Role‐Based Processing
4.3 Special Topic: Designing the User Experience
4.4 Summary: Understanding Your Users and Your Other Stakeholders
4.5 Next
4.6 This Week's Facilitated Lab Session
5 How Do Engineering Projects Get Created?
5.1 Engineering Projects are Created in Response to a Need, or a Vision
5.2 How to Win
5.3 Your Role in All of This
5.4 Summary: How to Win
5.5 Next
5.6 This Week's Facilitated Lab Session
6 Organizing and Planning
6.1 The Work‐Breakdown Structure
6.2 The Statement of Work
6.3 The Organization Chart
6.4 The Project Plan
6.5 Your Role in All of This
6.6 Summary: Organizing and Planning
6.7 Next
6.8 This Week's Facilitated Lab Session
7 Creating Credible Predictions for Schedule and Cost: the Activity Network
7.1 Setting the Stage
7.2 Estimating the Schedule For Your Project
7.3 Estimating the Cost of Your Project
7.4 Injecting Realism Into Your Estimates
7.5 Cost vs. Price
7.6 Your Role in All of This
7.7 The Intersection With Engineering
7.8 Next
7.9 This Week's Facilitated Lab Session
8 Drawing Valid Conclusions From Numbers
8.1 In Engineering, We Must Make Measurements
8.2 The Data and/or the Conclusions are Often Wrong
8.3 What Engineering Project Managers Need to Measure
8.4 Implications for the Design and Management Processes
8.5 Your Role in All of This
8.6 Summary: Drawing Valid Conclusions From Numbers
8.7 Next
8.8 This Week's Facilitated Lab Session
9 Risk and Opportunity Management
9.1 Things Can Go Wrong With Our Project: How Do We Cope?
9.2 The Steps of Risk Management
9.3 Two Special Types of Risks
9.4 Lessons Learned From Risk Management
9.5 Your Role in All of This
9.6 Summary: Risk and Opportunity Management
9.7 Next
9.8 This Week's Facilitated Lab Session
10 Monitoring the Progress of Your Project (Part I)
10.1 Monitoring Progress Via Updated Predictions to Schedule and Cost
10.2 Making the Updated Predictions
10.3 Using the Updated Predictions
10.4 Financial Measures About Which Your Company Will Care
10.5 Your Role in All of This
10.6 Summary: Monitoring the Progress of your Project (Part I)
10.7 Next
10.8 This Week's Facilitated Lab Session
11 Monitoring the Progress of Your Project (Part II)
11.1 How the Manager of an Engineering Project Ought to Allocate His/Her Time
11.2 A Big Claim on Our Time: The Periodic Management Rhythm
11.3 The Steps of the Periodic Management Rhythm
11.4 The Social Benefits of the Periodic Management Rhythm
11.5 Your Role in All of This
11.6 Summary: Monitoring the Progress of Your Project (Part II)
11.7 Next
11.8 This Week's Facilitated Lab Session
12 Four Special Topics
12.1 Launching Your Project
12.2 Systems and Projects With Large Amounts of Software
12.3 The Agile Software Development Methodology
12.4 Ending Your Project
12.5 Your Role in All of This
12.6 Next
12.7 This Week's Facilitated Lab Session
13 The Social Aspects of Engineering Project Management
13.1 Dealing With People, Becoming a Leader
13.2 Alignment
13.3 The Sine Qua Non of Leadership
13.4 Motivating Your Team
13.5 Recognizing and Resolving Conflict
13.6 Siegel's Mechanics of Project Management
13.7 Dealing With Special People
13.8 Your Career as an Engineer
13.9 Change on Your Project
13.10 Coping With Career Change
13.11 Getting Ahead
13.12 Two Special Topics
13.13 Summary: Social Aspects of Engineering Project Management
13.14 Next
13.15 This Week's Facilitated Lab Session
14 Achieving Quality
14.1 Defining the Term Quality
14.2 One Motivation for Quality: A Good Reputation
14.3 Quality Initiatives
14.4 Processes for Engineering and for Project Management
14.5 Procurement and Subcontracting
14.6 The Effects of Quality
14.7 The Bill of Materials
14.8 Your Role in All of This
14.9 Next
14.10 This Week's Facilitated Lab Session
Appendix: What Distributions Actually Look Like in the Real World of Engineering Projects
15 Applying Our Ideas in the Real World, Ethics in Engineering
15.1 Applying Our Ideas in the Real World
15.2 Ethics in Engineering
15.3 Thank You
Index
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