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Project management with dynamic scheduling: Baseline scheduling, risk

analysis and project control

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-25175-7

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Project Management with Dynamic Scheduling
Baseline Scheduling, Risk Analysis and Project Control

▶ Overview of project scheduling principles available in literature

▶ Integration of scheduling, risk and control
▶ Use of software stimulated (students version available)
▶ Topics based on many research projects and real-life projects

The topic of this book is known as dynamic scheduling, and is used to refer to three
dimensions of project management and scheduling: the construction of a baseline
schedule and the analysis of a project schedule’s risk as preparation of the project control
phase during project progress. This dynamic scheduling point of view implicitly assumes
that the usability of a project’s baseline schedule is rather limited and only acts as a point
of reference in the project life cycle. Consequently, a project schedule should especially
be considered as nothing more than a predictive model that can be used for resource
efficiency calculations, time and cost risk analyses, project tracking and performance
measurement, and so on. In this book, the three dimensions of dynamic scheduling
2nd ed. 2013, XVIII, 318 p. 123 illus. are highlighted in detail and are based on and inspired by a combination of academic
research studies at Ghent University (www.ugent.be), in-company trainings at Vlerick
Business School (www.vlerick.com) and consultancy projects at OR-AS (www.or-as.be).
Printed book First, the construction of a project baseline schedule is a central theme throughout the
Hardcover various chapters of the book, and is discussed from a complexity point of view with and
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weak parts in a baseline schedule is discussed at the end of the two baseline scheduling
parts as schedule risk analysis techniques that can be applied on top of the baseline
schedule. Third, the baseline schedule and its risk analyses can be used as guidelines
eBook during the project control step where actual deviations can be corrected within the
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