Contents:Introduction to engineering design --
Teams --
Defining the project or problem --
Background --
Design phases --
Summary --
Project management overview --
Project management knowledge areas --
Project life cycles and project phases --
Product life cycles --
Organizational structures --
Project management job functions --
Project integration management --
Project plan development --
Project plan execution --
Project controlling process and change control --
Change control system --
Configuration management --
Need for top management commitment --
Project scope management --
Project scope management processes --
Selecting projects --
Weighted scoring model --
Project charters --
Work breakdown structure --
Approaches to developing work breakdown structures (WBSs) --
Personal and project time management --
Personal time management --
Work smarter, not harder --
Project time management --
Project time management processes --
Project network diagrams --
Precedence diagramming method (PDM) --
Estimation of activity times (duration) --
Schedule development --
Critical path method (CPM) --
Program evaluation and review technique (PERT) --
Project cost management --
Project cost management processes --
Resource planning --
Cost estimating --
Cost estimation techniques --
Problems in cost estimation --
Cost budgeting --
Guidelines for preparing budget --
Cost control --
Earned value analysis --
Work breakdown structure (WBS) --
Calculating earned value --
Earned value management system (EVMS) --
Tools and techniques --
Project quality management --
Project quality management processes --
Quality planning --
Quality assurance --
Quality control --
Improving project quality --
Cost of quality --
International organization for standardization --
Good manufacturing practice --
Project procurement management --
Project procurement management processes --
Procurement planning --
Solicitation planning --
Solicitation --
Source selection --
Contract administration --
Contract closeout --
Project human resource management --
Managing people --
Improving effectiveness: Covey's seven habits --
Summary --
Project communications management --
Project communications management processes --
Communications planning --
Information distribution --
Span of control --
Performance reporting --
Project risk management --
Project risk management --
Types of project risks --
Risk quantification --
Risk responses --
Causes of risk --
Risk management plans --
Risk response control --
Summary --
Project closeout --
Closing processes and outputs --
Outcomes assessment meeting --
Outcomes assessment report --
Transition planning --
Project documents to be archived --
Critical success factors --
Summary --
Project design reviews --
Prelude to conducting a design review meeting --
Entry criteria for design review --
Conducting the design review --
Design review output --
Exit criteria --
Making technical decisions --
Group decision-making process --
U.S. navy executive decision-making framework --
Decision matrix or utility function --
Factor weights --
Grading scale --
Summary --
Management of team conflict --
Giving feedback --
Conflict resolution methods.
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