Table of Contents

1. Project Management 2. Work Breakdown Structure 3. Bar Charts 4. Development of Networks 5. Critical Path Method – I: Activity Times 6. Critical Path Method – II: Activity Floats 7. Crashing: Time-Cost Tradeoff 8. Limited Time Resource Scheduling 9. Project Control and Updating 10. Programme Evaluations Review Technique – I: Event Times 11. Programme Evaluation and Review Technique – II: Probability of Completion 12. Precedence Diagramming Method 13. Line of Balance for Repetitive Projects 14. Selection of Planning Techniques

About the Author

Vijay Kumar Bansal is a faculty member of the Department of Civil Engineering at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Hamirpur, India. He has more than two decades of experience in teaching, research, and fieldwork in project management: he is a resource person for many international e-learning hubs, has guided many Ph.D. and Master's Programme theses, and has completed many research projects. The author's research interests include 4D scheduling, repetitive scheduling, location-based planning scheduling, etc. He has contributed many research papers to national and international journals, conferences, and magazines, published by Taylor & Francis, American Society of Civil Engineers, Elsevier and Springer, and others. Apart from teaching and research, the author has worked in relevant positions such as executive engineer and associate dean.