Project Scheduling and Cost Control: Planning, Monitoring and Controlling the Baseline Illustrated Edition

Bought this for my MBA course. Didn’t make me cry and I learned quite a bit. Written with the intent to be easily understood.

Item shipped in a timely manner and as described.

I am using this book for a University course. It's an okay book for explaining cost control, but I have found betters out there that explain it in a manner that makes more sense. To me, it was your standard textbook.

Pages 99 through page 106 are torn/ripped off, and just tucked into the book. loosed. This is very dissatisfying to say the least Amazon, willingness to sell such a poor quality book. Which means no quality check for the products that you sell to the public.

Book was required reading for a Scheduling and Cost Planning course. I have the PMI Practice Stanyor Project Estimating & Practice Standard for Scheduling which explain the processes in a way that is easier to understand. I kept referring to my PMI books to better understand what I was supposed to be learning.

Okay.

Books like this are why I hate buying books online. While it is a great book for beginning scheduling that is all it is. If you are looking for something more substantial than "Construction Planning and Scheduling" by Jimmie Hinze is much better (If your scheduling for Construction Projects that is.)If you have never read a book on planning then this could be a great place to start. The only problem is with most large scale construction projects unless you have a dedicated scheduling staff you will not have the luxury of cost loading schedules so that you can perform Earned Value Analysis.I was thrown in to this scenario and have been very dissapointed on the amount of literature about what you do after you have the schedule created and what the best practices are concerning schedule updates. Since it is something that can really get you and your company in trouble in the event of a lawsuit i am surprised that it is not a subject that has been covered in more detail.So while I am not panning this book, as it is great for an introduction book, the description on the web page and even on the book itself is very misleading.