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(More customer reviews)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.

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Concurrent engineering (wherein all the essentialfunctions for new product development and distribution are carriedout concurrently) is a recently developed method that 1) reducesthe 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 productdevelopment, this volume explores concurrent management of projectsbased on concurrent engineering. Provides a complete,step-by-step, Total Quality Management procedure (with sample casestudies) for implementing concurrent engineering in the planning,scheduling, and controlling of technical projects, and broadens thescope to include other key functions such as marketing, materialsmanagement, industrial design, finance and human resources. Unlikemost other books that focus more on controlling the project afterit begins, this volume emphasizes that the best way of controllingthe project is by sound planning and realistic scheduling beforethe 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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