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The book makes the readers familiar with the objectives of project management and explains project management life cycle, demand forecasting methods, and phases and steps of technology transfer. It discusses cost of capital, estimation of project cost, and feasibility of projects. The text also describes project evaluation and project scheduling techniques, as well as discusses project management software and the impact of projects on the environment. Besides, it gives a detailed description of project audit, project organizational structures and roles of various financial institutions in project management.
Key Features :
Explains the concepts and techniques of project management with a number of fitting examples.
Includes several chapter-end problems and questions to test students
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R. PANNEERSELVAM, Ph.D., is former Professor of the Department of Management Studies, School of Management, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry. He has been the Chairman of Computer Society of India (Pondicherry Chapter) and carried out overseas consultancy for CEMS, Malaysia. His area of expertise includes computer systems, quantitative methods and operations management. With 39 years of teaching and research experience, including his service at College of Engineering, Anna University, Chennai, he has authored thirteen other well-established books, including Production and Operations Management, Operations Research, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, System Simulation, Modelling and Languages (twelve published by PHI Learning and one published by Cengage Learning). Besides, he has also published more than 100 research articles in leading national and international journals, and Conference proceedings.
P. Senthilkumar, PhD, is Manager, Programme Management, Ashok Leyland, Chennai. He also served at Mahindra and Mahindra (Tractor Division), Mumbai; Valeo Minda Electrical Systems India Private Limited, Pune; and Lucas-TVS Limited, Puducherry. Dr. Senthilkumar has published more than 10 research articles in leading national and international journals. He has also co-authored another book, Project Management, PHI with Professor Panneerselvam. His research areas include Simulation, Production Scheduling and Automated Guided Vehicle Systems (AGVS) Scheduling.
