This book describes the various aspects and considerations required in effective project management and the tools that can be used by a nonprofessional project manager to appropriately evaluate how well the professional is doing or effectively manage smaller projects without the need for a professional project manager. Project management is an evolving profession. Originally considered part and parcel of the design function, the practice of project management has evolved into a separate classification of professional practice. Professional project managers of today use sophisticated computer programs to achieve in seconds what took days to accomplish and evaluate in the past. Cost estimating and project scheduling have become key elements in assuring on-budget and on-time delivery of final projects. Key to those is how well the project manager addresses environmental issues that arise. Those issues need to be considered from the planning stages of a project to the end-of-life stages of the project and the disposal of the remnants of the project decades in the future.
About the author
Francis Hopcroft, PE, LSP, served in a variety of project management roles as a consultant and as a federal employee for two decades before entering the teaching profession in 1993. He continued his consulting services in the areas of civil and environmental engineering while teaching full-time at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston. Recently retired after teaching civil and environmental engineering for 23 years, he serves as the collection editor for the Environmental Engineering Collection at Momentum Press.
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