Advanced Models for Project Management

More than forty years have passed since the early attempts to model projects. A large domain of theoretical developments has grown producing a high number of analytical and numerical results, but it seems that the main model is still the same: the concept

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Advanced Models for Project Management by

Prof L. Valadares Tavares Technical University of Lisbon Instituto Superior Tecnico Lisbon, Portugal

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Tavares, L. Valadares (Luis Valadares), 1946Advanced models for project management / by L. Valadares Tavares. p. cm. -- (International series in operations research & management science ; 16) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4613-4649-4 ISBN 978-1-4419-8626-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-8626-9 1. Industrial project management. 2. Network analysis (planning) 1. Title. II. Series. T56.8.T38 1998 658.5--dc21 98-39321 CIP Copyright © 1999 by Springer Science+Business Media New York Originally published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in 1999 Softcover reprint ofthe hardcover Ist edition 1999 AII rights reserved. No part ofthis publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, mechanical, photo-copying, recording, or otherwise,without the prior written permission ofthe publisher, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword .................................................................................................... ix Acknowledgements ..................................................................................... xi

1. A SYSTEMIC INTRODUCTION TO PROJECT MANAGEMENT ............ 1 1. Projects and organizations ....................................................................... 1 2. Project management and model building ................................................. 6 3. The general systemic model .................................................................... 9 4. The systemic model of project manageme