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A Quest for Projects with Scarce Resources: Seeking Schedule Intelligence Through Project Data Discovery explores the challenges of the resource-constrained project scheduling problem, detailing how researchers generate, manipulate and analyze project datasets to deepen understanding of scheduling complexity and improve algorithmic performance. It also highlights the practical relevance of project data by showing how these insights and newly created databases can inform real-world decision-making in scheduling, forecasting, and risk analysis.
Purchase via Springer (2024)
The Illusion of Control: Project Data, Computer Algorithms and Human Intuition for Project Management and Control examines how project data, analytical algorithms and human judgment interact in data-driven project management to improve scheduling, risk analysis, and control while revealing the challenges in collecting and using such data effectively. It reviews state-of-the-art methods for generating and analyzing project data and offers guidance for researchers and practitioners on using these tools to support better decision-making in projects under uncertainty.
Purchase via Springer (2023)
The Data-Driven Project Manager: A Statistical Battle Against Project Obstacles is written as a business novel that follows a project team using a data-driven methodology (known as "dynamic scheduling") to plan, monitor and control a complex project while overcoming unexpected obstacles through baseline scheduling, schedule risk analysis, and project control techniques. It demonstrates how integrating statistical tools like Monte Carlo simulation and earned value/earned schedule methods with practical decision-making helps deliver projects on time and within budget.
- Purchase via Apress (2018)
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Integrated Project Management Sourcebook: A Technical Guide to Project Scheduling, Risk and Control is a comprehensive handbook of over 70 interconnected articles that rigorously explains the technical foundations of baseline scheduling, schedule risk analysis and project control within the integrated "dynamic scheduling" paradigm for managing projects. Each topic includes practice questions and solutions, making it a practical resource for both students and professionals seeking to understand detailed quantitative methods for effective project scheduling and control.
Purchase via Springer (2016)
Integrated Project Management and Control: First Comes the Theory, then the Practice presents an integrated system for project monitoring and control that combines Earned Value Management, Earned Schedule, and Schedule Risk Analysis to regularly measure performance against a project baseline so variances can be detected and corrective actions taken. It then transitions from theoretical foundations to practical application, including software tutorials, to help students and practitioners apply these concepts effectively in real project environments.
Purchase via Springer (2014)
Project Management with Dynamic Scheduling: Baseline Scheduling, Risk Analysis and Project Control presents the dynamic scheduling framework, integrating three core dimensions of project management, i.e. building a predictive baseline schedule, performing schedule risk analysis, and using both to guide project control during execution. It emphasizes viewing the project schedule as a model for resource efficiency, risk assessment, performance tracking, and corrective action, combining theory with practical examples and tools to help both students and practitioners apply these concepts effectively.
Purchase via Springer (2013)
Measuring Time: Improving Project Performance Using Earned Value Management investigates how Earned Value Management (EVM) and related performance measurement and risk analysis techniques can be used to improve the decision-making process for corrective actions during project tracking by comparing and evaluating both established and newly developed methods. It combines research insights, through simulation studies, case studies, and a ProTrack software tutorial, to show how these techniques enhance forecasting accuracy, schedule adherence, and time-based performance control in real project environments.
- Purchase via Springer (2009)
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The Art of Project Management: A Story About Work and Passion combines practical lessons in planning, scheduling, and control with a narrative that highlights the emotional, interpersonal, and human dimensions of managing projects. It uses storytelling to show how passion, purpose, and people‑centered leadership are essential complements to technical project management skills for achieving successful outcomes.
Taking Sound Business Decisions: From Rich Data to Better Solutions explores how to transform large and complex datasets into clear, actionable insights that support better business decision‑making. It combines statistical methods, data visualization, and practical frameworks to help managers interpret data effectively and choose solutions grounded in evidence rather than intuition.
Dynamic Scheduling on Your Desktop is a practical guide that shows how to apply dynamic scheduling techniques using the ProTrack desktop software tool to build, analyze and control project schedules. It walks readers step‑by‑step through creating baseline schedules, performing schedule risk analysis, and using results to make informed project decisions in everyday project management practice.
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There is so much more to explore beyond the books. Our Free Resources Library includes popular articles written for everyone, practical references to statistics, and a variety of other relevant materials to help you deepen your understanding of project management and dynamic scheduling.