Managing Aviation Projects from Concept to Completion

Contents: Foreword, William DeCota Foreword, Yiannis Paraschis Preface The nature of projects and their management Factors for project success or failure Project definition Strategic decisions Estimating the project costs Evaluating an aviation investment project and preparing a business case Project authorization Organizing the project Some key roles and stakeholders in the project organization Work breakdown and coding Relating the project dimensions of work, organization and cost Introduction to detailed project planning An introduction to critical path network analysis Critical path network analysis in more practical detail Principles of resource scheduling More advanced aspects of resource scheduling Planning for risk and uncertainty in aviation projects Contracts and terms of payment Purchasing a " part 1: principles and initial ordering Purchasing a " part 2: the supply chain Managing project start-up Managing progress Managing changes Managing project costs Managing project cash flows Reporting progress and costs Project closedown Bibliography Index.