Authors: Owen J. Murphy
ISBN-13: 9780324203028, ISBN-10: 0324203020
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Date Published: April 2005
Edition: 1st Edition
Owen Murhpy has an extensive background, both in the military and outside of it, as a project manager in the international business scene. He has a degree in electrical engineering from UCLA and a MBA.
Murphy as 15 years of professional experience, much of it in Europe and Asia, developing, managing and implementing various technical projects for Hughes, Raytheon, and overseas governments.
Drawing on his experience managing international projects in military and business settings, Murphy, a project consultant in international business, supplies guidance on managing projects on the global stage. Beginning with the planning process, he takes readers through to project completion, providing a set of financial controls to manage a project abroad and a set of metrics to assess the project at completion. Appendices provide a Gannt chart and risk management forms for a sample project, plus a glossary of acronyms. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Ch. 1 | Going international | 1 |
Ch. 2 | The context of international projects | 13 |
Ch. 3 | Difficulties and risks of international projects | 27 |
Ch. 4 | The groundwork | 41 |
Ch. 5 | The game plan | 51 |
Ch. 6 | Organizing and staffing the project | 71 |
Ch. 7 | Financial controls as a management tool | 95 |
Ch. 8 | Risk management | 113 |
Ch. 9 | Metrics and quality management | 131 |
Ch. 10 | Offsets | 147 |
Ch. 11 | Selecting and managing subcontractors in-country | 155 |
Ch. 12 | Trade studies | 167 |
Ch. 13 | Working the project, working the problems | 173 |
App. A | GANTT chart for the Europistania Log Cabin project | 193 |
App. B | Risk management forms for the Europistania Log Cabin project | 203 |
App. C | Work breakdown structure | 209 |