Managing aviation projects from concept to completion

1. The nature of projects and their management -- 2. Factors for project success or failure -- 3. Project definition -- 4. Strategic decisions -- 5. Estimating the project costs -- 6. Evaluating an aviation investment project and preparing a business case -- 7. Project authorization -- 8. Organizing the project -- 9. Some key roles and stakeholders in the project organization -- 10. Work breakdown and coding -- 11. Relating the project dimensions of work, organization and cost -- 12. Introduction to detailed project planning -- 13. An introduction to critical path network analysis -- 14. Critical path network analysis in more practical detail -- 15. Principles of resource scheduling -- 16. More advanced aspects of resource scheduling -- 17. Planning for risk and uncertainty in aviation projects -- 18. Contracts and terms of payment -- 19. Purchasing, part 1 : principles and initial ordering -- 20. Purchasing, part 2 : the supply chain -- 21. Managing project start-up -- 22. Managing progress -- 23. Managing changes -- 24. Managing project costs -- 25. Managing project cash flows -- 26. Reporting progress and costs -- 27. Project closedown.