Implementing Concurrent Project Management [Paperback]

Quentin C. Turtle (Author)

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Publication Date: March 24, 1994 | ISBN-10: 0133020010 | ISBN-13: 978-0133020014

Concurrent engineering (wherein all the essential functions for new product development and distribution are carried out concurrently) is a recently developed method that 1) reduces the time required to commercialize a new product and take it to market, and 2) enables time and cost schedules to be more realistically estimated. Based on the author's extensive experience in industry in new product development, this volume explores concurrent management of projects based on concurrent engineering. Provides a complete, step-by-step, Total Quality Management procedure (with sample case studies) for implementing concurrent engineering in the planning, scheduling, and controlling of technical projects, and broadens the scope to include other key functions such as marketing, materials management, industrial design, finance and human resources. Unlike most other books that focus more on controlling the project after it begins, this volume emphasizes that the best way of controlling the project is by sound planning and realistic scheduling before the project begins. For Project Managers; Manufacturing, Mechanical, and Electrical Engineers working in a concurrent environment; and for Quality Engineering and Management practitioners.

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Concurrent engineering (wherein all the essential functions for new product development and distribution are carried out concurrently) is a recently developed method that 1) reduces the time required to commercialize a new product and take it to market, and 2) enables time and cost schedules to be more realistically estimated. Based on the author's extensive experience in industry in new product development, this volume explores concurrent management of projects based on concurrent engineering. Provides a complete, step-by-step, Total Quality Management procedure (with sample case studies) for implementing concurrent engineering in the planning, scheduling, and controlling of technical projects, and broadens the scope to include other key functions such as marketing, materials management, industrial design, finance and human resources. Unlike most other books that focus more on controlling the project after it begins, this volume emphasizes that the best way of controlling the project is by sound planning and realistic scheduling before the project begins. For Project Managers; Manufacturing, Mechanical, and Electrical Engineers working in a concurrent environment; and for Quality Engineering and Management practitioners.

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: PTR Prentice Hall (March 24, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0133020010
• ISBN-13: 978-0133020014
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 7.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,808,149 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars An expert guide from one of the pioneers of the business, November 8, 2003

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Concurrent Project Management is based on a simple premise: Instead of the traditional method of manufacturing where a design team dumps an unworkable process onto a production group, these groups work together from the beginning or conceptual phase, all the way through production and product delivery. This seems so obvious today but at the time Dr. Turtle was developing this methodology, it was unheard of. I met Chuck Turtle in 1999 as one of his students at the University of Rhode Island. This book was our textbook. The lessons taught in this book have become the basis for my project management career. This book is to project management what Homer is to classics.