<P style="MARGIN: 0px">Master all the modern project scheduling and cost control techniques you need, in one focused tutorial! Randal Wilson's <I>Project Schedule & Cost Control </I> isn't your typical project management guide: it's 100% focused on the specific principles, techniques, and best-practice methodologies of scheduling and cost control.</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">Wilson illuminates key issues through the extensive use of graphs, charts, case studies, and worked examples; and calls your attention to crucial issues that "generic" PM books ignore. Coverage includes: </P> <UL> <LI>Project structures, including differences between projects and programs, and how those differences affect costing and scheduling</LI> <LI>Initiation: how projects start, how to develop project charters and stakeholder registers, and how to manage stakeholders</LI> <LI>Planning, in depth: what costs must be addressed, and what schedule constraints must be considered</LI> <LI>Project schedule analysis: activity definition, WBS, and work packages; activity sequencing and diagramming; proven methodologies for estimating resources and activity durations; and schedule development</LI> <LI>Project cost analysis: gathering and estimating all project costs, including labor, materials, vendor bids, subcontractors, contracts, equipment, facilities, and direct/indirect costs.</LI> <LI>Budgeting via top-down, bottom-up, and activity-based methods</LI> <LI>Project monitoring and control: earned value, tracking Gantt, S-Curves, performance reviews, milestone analysis, change control systems, estimate at completion, forecasting, and much more</LI> </UL> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">For both project management newcomers and working project managers who need to sharpen their skills</P>