Description
This excerpt from a book about global engineering project management provides an overview of the book's contents. The book discusses the principles of project management, how to anticipate issues, and how to deal with complications when working on an international project.
Global Engineering Project Management aligns real-world experiences in managing global projects withproject management principles. It explainshow to anticipate issues, covering everything from start-up planning and supply management to cost containment, post-project evaluation and protecting intellectual property. The authorexplores technologies, virtual teams, traditions, economics, politics, and legal issues in the context of international projects, as well as compares the differences with domestic projects. He also highlights the complications of international bidding, the extra time and effort needed for multi-national team formation and management, and often overlooked project closure tasks.