Managing Aviation Projects from Concept to Completion

Following on from their earlier collaboration, Aviation Project Management, the authors have written this more in-depth book for those who need to study aviation project management in greater detail and connect project management within an aviation context to prudent business decision-making. Aviation project management is described throughout all stages of a lifecycle that begins when the project is first conceived and does not end until it has been successfully completed, fully documented, and put into operational service.

1: The Nature of Projects and their Management; 2: Factors for Project Success or Failure; 3: Project Definition; 4: Strategic Decisions; 5: Estimating the Project Costs; 6: Evaluating an Aviation Investment Project and Preparing a Business Case; 7: Project Authorization; 8: Organizing the Project; 9: Some Key Roles and Stakeholders in the Project Organization; 10: Work Breakdown and Coding; 11: Relating the Project Dimensions of Work, Organization and Cost; 12: Introduction to Detailed Project Planning; 13: An Introduction to Critical Path Network Analysis; 14: Critical Path Network Analysis in More Practical Detail; 15: Principles of Resource Scheduling; 16: More Advanced Aspects of Resource Scheduling; 17: Planning for Risk and Uncertainty in Aviation Projects; 18: Contracts and Terms of Payment; 19: Purchasing-Part 1: Principles and Initial Ordering; 20: Purchasing-Part 2: The Supply Chain; 21: Managing Project Start-up; 22: Managing Progress; 23: Managing Changes; 24: Managing Project Costs; 25: Managing Project Cash Flows; 26: Reporting Progress and Costs; 27: Project Closedown