The Management of Projects- Introduction - Developments prior to the 1940s - The Second World War - The 1950s: the development of Systems Management - The 1960s: Apollo and the decade of management systems - The 1970s: the expansion of project management - The 1980s: expansion of the strategic perspective of managing projects - The Management of Projects: the new model - And now? - Notes - Selected bibliography - Index |
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Second World War | 10 |
the development of Systems | 19 |
Apollo and the decade | 38 |
the expansion of project management | 89 |
expansion of the strategic | 150 |
the new model | 213 |
And now? | 273 |
Notes | 313 |
| 338 | |
| 346 | |
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| Title | The Management of Projects |
| Author | Peter W. G. Morris |
| Editor | Peter W. G. Morris |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint, revised |
| Publisher | Thomas Telford, 1997 |
| ISBN | 0727725939, 9780727725936 |
| Length | 358 pages |
| Subjects | › › Technology & Engineering / Civil / General |
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