Comprehensive Guide to Project Management Schedule and Cost Control, A: Methods and Models for Managing the Project Lifecycle, 1st edition

This is the most complete guide to all the principles and techniques you need to successfully schedule projects and control their costs. Not a broad project management guide, it offers focused coverage of every essential aspect of scheduling and cost control — including key issues ignored by typical PM guides.

Expert project manager and long-time instructor Randal Wilson makes scheduling and cost control intuitive through the extensive use of graphs, charts, and case studies, and provides all the formulas and worked examples you need to succeed. Writing for both newcomers and working project managers, Wilson covers all this, and more: 

• Project structures, including differences between projects and programs, and how those differences affect costing and scheduling
• Initiation: how projects start, how to develop project charters and stakeholder registers, and how to manage stakeholders
• Planning, in depth: what costs must be addressed, and what schedule constraints must be considered
• Project schedule analysis: activity definition, WBS, and work packages;  activity sequencing and diagramming; proven methodologies for estimating resources and activity durations; and schedule development
• Project cost analysis: gathering and estimating all project costs, including labor, materials, vendor bids, subcontractors, contracts, equipment, facilities, and direct/indirect costs.
• Budgeting via top-down, bottom-up, and activity-based methods

Project monitoring and control: earned value, tracking Gantt, S-Curves, performance reviews, milestone analysis, change control systems, estimate at completion, forecasting, and much more.

The most focused and complete guide to modern project scheduling and cost control: all you need, in one book

• Teaches solid practices for establishing an industry-standard cost and schedule control methodology
• Covers the entire project lifecycle, from project initiation and planning onward
• Introduces all key project roles and stakeholders
• Explains every essential idea, including Gantt charts, WBS, CPM, earned value, change control, cost of quality, and much more
• Explores key concepts using graphs, charts, formulas, relevant case studies, and up-to-date examples