Work Breakdown Structures for Projects, Programs, and Enterprises

Work Breakdown Structures for Projects, Programs, and Enterprises
Author: Gregory T. Haugan PhD, PMP
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2008-08-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1523096144

Become an Expert on the Work Breakdown Structure! The basic concept and use of the work breakdown structure (WBS) are fundamental in project management. In Work Breakdown Structures for Projects, Programs, and Enterprises, author Gregory T. Haugan, originator of the widely accepted 100 percent rule, offers an expanded understanding of the WBS concept, illustrating its principles and applications for planning programs as well as its use as an organizing framework at the enterprise level. Through specific examples, this book will help you understand how the WBS aids in the planning and management of all functional areas of project management. With this valuable resource you will be able to: • Tailor WBSs to your organization's unique requirements using provided checklists and principles • Develop and use several types of WBS • Use WBS software to gain a competitive edge • Apply the 100 percent rule when developing a WBS for a project or program • Establish a WBS for a major construction project using included templates • Understand portfolio management and establish an enterprise-standard WBS

Extent of Highway Capacity Manual Use in Planning

Extent of Highway Capacity Manual Use in Planning
Author: Richard Gerhard Dowling
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 61
Release: 2012
Genre: Highway capacity manual
ISBN: 0309223547

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 427: Extent of Highway Capacity Manual Use in Planning assesses how state departments of transportation, small and large metropolitan planning organizations, and local governments are using or might use the Highway Capacity Manual for planning analyses, or more specifically, for performance monitoring, problem identification, project prioritization, programming, and decision-making processes.

Guidebook on Risk Analysis Tools and Management Practices to Control Transportation Project Costs

Guidebook on Risk Analysis Tools and Management Practices to Control Transportation Project Costs
Author: Keith Robert Molenaar
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2010
Genre: Project management
ISBN: 0309154766

This guidebook provides guidance to state departments of transportation for using specific, practical, and risk-related management practices and analysis tools for managing and controlling transportation project costs. Containing a toolbox for agencies to use in selecting the appropriate strategies, methods and tools to apply in meeting their cost-estimation and cost-control objectives, this guidebook should be of immediate use to practitioners that are accountable for the accuracy and reliability of cost estimates during planning, priority programming and preconstruction.