Project Management: Planning and Scheduling Techniques

Project Management: Planning and Scheduling Techniques is a highly readable guide to the essentials of project planning, scheduling, and control aimed at readers looking for an introduction to the core concepts of planning and scheduling, including the ’Critical Path Method’, but also the ’Precedence Diagramming Method’, the ’Line of Balance’ technique, and the ’Programme Evaluation and Review Technique’. This book explains the theory behind the methods and makes effective use of learning outcomes, exercises, diagrams, and examples to provide clear and actionable knowledge for students and project managers.

The book can be used as a classroom textbook or as a self-study guide for project managers taking their professional qualifications, and it includes examples from a wide range of project management scenarios. It is suitable for planning and scheduling courses in the fields of industrial, civil, and mechanical engineering, construction, and management.

Vijay Kumar Bansal is a faculty member of the Department of Civil Engineering at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Hamirpur, India. The author has more than two decades of experience in teaching, research, and fieldwork in the subject: he is a resource person for many international e-learning hubs, and has guided many Ph.D. and Master Programme theses in the subject and completed many research projects. The research interest of the author includes 4D scheduling, repetitive scheduling, location-based planning scheduling, etc. The author has contributed many research papers in national and international journals, conferences, and magazines. The main contributions of the author are for Taylor & Francis, American Society of Civil Engineers, Elsevier, Springer, etc. Apart from teaching and research, the author has worked on many positions like Executive Engineer, Associate Dean, etc.