• ISBN13: 9788126901791
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Business Management
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: April 21, 2002
• Pages: 144
• Original Price: INR 350.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 150 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): General

A Manual on Project Management, as a textbook, deals with application of Project Implementing Techniques and highlights their importance to the realm of Successful Project Management Science. The book depicts the grasp of financial and strategic consideration; some of its specialised chapters particularly those on discounting methods including NPV and DCP will be invaluable tools to the Project Manager and to the management at large, at any level. The complexity of modern business and industrial environment demands the fullest possible use of Project Management Technique. The book, in the present form, is expected to be most useful to the students in the technical colleges to sharpen their skills to enhance their roles effectively in pursuit of their chosen profession. It also has a great potential of being a reference book at the technical libraries of universities and technical colleges across the country, where this subject is taught as a part of their curriculum.

G.L. Tiku, is a Graduate in Mechanical Engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He is Fellow of Institution of Engineers, India (F.I.E.); Chartered Engineer (C.E.); Member — Senior Executive Forum from Mahratta Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture (M.C.C.I.A.); and Member— Consulting Engineers Association of India (C.E.A.I.). His career span of over 40 years has been mostly with Automobile manufacturing industry, specialising in Project Formulation and Project Execution. During his career movements, he has extensively travelled to Europe and Great Britain on study tours to world-renowned automobile plants to assimilate modern practices in the art of automobile manufacture, specifically in the discipline of Science of Project Management and its Execution. By virtue of having been associated with large Green-Field automobile manufacturing projects he has acquired Hands-On experience in formulation and execution of projects. At present, he is a practicing management and technical consultant. Having flair for writing, he is accredited columnist to reputed Auto and General Engineering Journals. He has authored Manual on Joining Processes by Welding, Brazing and Soldering, published by Minerva Press (India) Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi. He is also retained as a Guest Faculty by the Technical Institutions of Maharashtra from time to time.

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Project Management
• An Overview
• 3. What is Project Management?
• 4. The Need for Project Management
• 5. The Project Manager and His Place in the
• Organization
• 6. Defining the Project
• 7. Getting Down to Business
• 8. Quality and Reliability
• 9. Product Cost
• 10. Meetings, Communication and Presentation of Information
• 11. Project Control
• 12. Subcontractors
• 13. Programme Evaluation and Review Techniques (PERT)
• 14. Value for Money
• 15. The Contract
• 16. The Financial Evaluation
• 17. Project Choice
• 18. More about PERT Technique
• 19. The Price of Capital
• 20. Successful Project Management : The Golden Rules