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Making essential choices with scant information = front-end decision making in major projects /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Making essential choices with scant information/ edited by Terry M.Williams, Knut Samset and Kjell J. Sunnevêag.
Reminder of title:	front-end decision making in major projects /
other author:	Williams, T. M.
Published:	Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan, : 2009.,
Description:	xvi, 417 p. :ill. ; : 23 cm.;
Subject:	Project management - Decision making. -
Online resource:	access to fulltext (Palgrave)
ISBN:	9780230236837

Making essential choices with scant information = front-end decision making in major projects /
Making essential choices with scant informationfront-end decision making in major projects /[electronic resource] :edited by Terry M.Williams, Knut Samset and Kjell J. Sunnevêag. - Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan,2009. - xvi, 417 p. :ill. ;23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Decisions made on scant information : overview / Terry Williams -- Projects, their quality atentry and challenges in the front-end phase /Knut Samset -- Implementing strategy through project management : the importance of managing the project front-end / Peter W.G. Morris -- Scenarios planning / Kees van der Heijden -- Up-front assessment of needs / Petter Nµss -- Front-end alignment of projects : doing the right project / Terry Cooke-Davies -- Using soft systems methodology to structureproject definition / Mark Winter -- Optimism and misrepresentation in early project development / Bent Flyvbjerg -- Decision behaviour : improving expert judgement / Geir Kirkeb²en -- Useful heuristics / BenjaminScheibehenne and Bettina von Helversen -- Expert judgement of probability and risk / George Wright, Fergus Bolger and Gene Rowe -- Evaluationof risks in complex problems / Gregory S. Parnell -- Obtaining distributions from groups for decisions under uncertainty / Roger M. Cooke -- Exploratory quantitative analysis of emergent problems with scant information / Tim Bedford -- Analyzing information : techniques and analyses/ Bj²rn Andersen -- Parametric analysis / Philip Pugh -- The impact ofnew information / Kjell J. Sunnevêag -- The complexity of decision-making in large projects with multiple partners : be prepared to change / Roger Miller and Brian Hobbs -- Project profitabilityfrom society's point of view / Kêare P. Hagen.

A new look at how projects can be successfully aligned with the desired direction; how sufficient, appropriate and valid information can begathered at the front-end; how information can be analysed; and finally how decisions can be made. Each chapter of the book is written by an expert in thefield, and each chapter speaks for itself. However, some key themes run throughout the book. These include: the need for alignment between organisational strategy and the project concept; dealing with complexity, in particular the systemicity and interrelatedness withinproject decisions; consideration of the ambiguity implicit in all major projects; taking into account psychological and politicalbiases within estimation of benefits and costs; consideration of the social geography and politics within decision-making groups; and preparation for theturbulence within the project environment, including the maintenance of strategic alignment.

Electronic reproduction.
Basingstoke, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.

Mode of access:World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780230236837Subjects--Topical Terms:

305115
Project management
--Decision making.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

96803
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HD69.P75 / M353 2009

Dewey Class. No.: 658.403

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