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The Essentials of Project Management
In recent years organizations of all kinds have learned that project working, once considered significant only for engineering and construction companies, can help to ensure that the intended benefits of business change will be realized in full and on time. This development means that more people than ever before need to understand the basic process, language and purpose of project working. That awareness is important not only for those actually engaged in project work, in all sectors of industry and commerce, but also for senior managers, project sponsors and the other stakeholders. The fourth edition of Essentials of Project Management is the junior complement to Dennis Lock's comprehensive, successful and encyclopaedic textbook, Project Management (now in its Tenth Edition). Essentials provides a concise, straightforward account of the principles and techniques of project management, designed to meet the needs of the business manager or student. Using examples and illustrations, the author introduces the key project management procedures and explains clearly how and when to use them. The Essentials of Project Management remains the ideal first text for anyone new to project working or students studying project management as part of a wider business qualification or degree.
Dennis Lock is a freelance writer who specializes in project management. His exceptionally wide industrial experience has included sub miniature electronics, defence systems, heavy engineering and international mining, with a progression of successful management positions in all of those industries. He has fulfilled consultancy assignments in Britain and overseas and in recent years has taught project management to masters degree students as an external lecturer at two British universities. Of over 50 books that he has written or edited, almost all have been published by Gower.
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Naked Project Management
Books about project management are plentiful. The best of those books are too comprehensive for the person faced for the first time with managing a small and relatively straightforward project, or for the student studying for a degree or business qualification in which project management is only one of several modules. But, at the other extreme too many of the simpler books treat project management lightly, gloss over or ignore some essential processes, and even get the facts wrong and give incorrect examples. Naked Project Management is an introductory guide to the world of project management from one of the world's most accomplished project management authors. Lock has stripped project management down to its bare facts - simplifying everything but trivializing nothing - leaving sound practical advice on how to organize and manage a small or medium sized project. The book is written in the direct jargon-free style that has become Dennis Lock’s hallmark. Everything is carefully explained and supported with clear diagrams. It covers all the essential aspect of project management in astonishingly few words and provides further instruction with an entertaining case study project that flows logically through the chapters from beginning to end. Degree and other students for whom project management is an elective or small part of their course will love this compact time-saving and reasonably priced study resource.
Dennis Lock is a freelance writer who specializes in project management. His exceptionally wide industrial experience has included electronics, defence systems, heavy engineering and international mining, with a steady progression of successful management positions in all those industries. He has fulfilled consultancy assignments in Britain, Europe and the US and in recent years taught project management to masters degree students as an external lecturer at two British universities. He is renowned for his clear writing style, coupled with ample case examples and illustrations. Of well over 50 books that Dennis has written or edited, almost all have been published by Gower.
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Managing Aviation Projects from Concept to Completion
Triant Flouris is a prominent academic and administrator in aviation management education; Dennis Lock has more than forty years experience in practising, lecturing and writing about project management. When these two experts combined their considerable talents to write their earlier book Aviation Project Management, it was little wonder that distinguished reviewers gave generous praise and acclaimed it as a welcome addition to what, until then, had been a neglected field. That first title was structured as an essential primer for managers and students. The authors have now written this more in-depth book for managers and students who need to study aviation project management in much greater detail, as well as critically connect project management within an aviation context to prudent business decision-making. Aviation project management is described in considerable detail throughout all stages of a lifecycle that begins when the project is only a vague concept and does not end until the project has been successfully completed, fully documented, and put into operational service. Aviation projects have commonly failed to deliver their expected outcomes on time and have greatly exceeded their intended budgets. Many of those failures would have been prevented if the project managers had adhered to the sound principles of project management, as described and demonstrated throughout this book.
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Validating the Use of Coefficients of Conservatism to Assess Forest Herbaceous Layer Quality in Upland Mesic Forests
Monitoring is a key activity in management and restoration, yet practitioners' choices among methods may be limited by available resources. Coefficients of Conservatism (C values) have been widely used among practitioners because they are easy to apply. To determine C, expert botanists assign species in a flora to one of 11 categories, from 0 to 10, with “0” assigned to species most tolerant of human disturbance, and “10” to species of highest-quality native habitats. Although first proposed over 30 y ago, C values are criticized as subjective, creating a need for external validation using independently derived metrics. Our study corroborates earlier validations of C values for forest understory species. Our work was made possible by consistent collection of herbaceous layer data from 126 plots at 38 sites across Iowa, USA, spanning five types of forests common in the Midwest: secondary, grazed, urban, managed (timber), and preserved. We used PCA to develop an independent metric of human disturbance (LHi) based on five plant attributes (exotic, annual, biennial, closed-canopy specialist, mesic-site specialist, and fern) that are determined apart from species' C values. We found high correlation between mean C and LHi (r = 0.837) and an identical pattern of means for these indices between the five forest types, with secondary forests having lowest and preserved forests highest values. This evidence supports earlier assertions that mean C provides a valid, simple, and inexpensive means to assess qualitative differences in the forest herbaceous layer of upland mesic forests due to human disturbance.
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Statistical methods in sports with a focus on win probability and performance evaluation
Within this dissertation are 3 papers application of statistical analyses to data in sport. We discuss the common methods of estimating in-game win probability values and present an approach using random forests that is uniformly applicable to all head-to-head competitions. The random forest is a non-parametric machine learning methodology common in big data regression and classification problems. We demonstrate the performance and usefulness of our method to the NHL, NBA and NFL. We also introduce a new methodology to account for missing values that are associated with the linear predictor in order to improve the estimation of NFL field goal kicker accuracy. Due to its flexibility, we believe the that the framework for incorporating information underlying missing values could be useful in a wide array of applications.
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