Practical Development Project Design, Planning and Execution

This is A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Train Development Project Practitioners. The book is designed to introduce development practitioners to the rudiments of project management, in order to improve the project delivery process and efficiency during the implementation process. Discussions within the text will be quite helpful to development practitioners through a better understanding of how to evaluate the cost and benefit of embarking on a project, and ways of enhancing the quality of the end-product, reduction in the time it takes to conclude a project, and the different stages involved in the process. Conceptualization of specific development projects would introduce the student to project management concepts and the rationale behind the subject. Here, discussions about specific projects, their planning methods, and the appropriate feasibility studies for the projects. Methods needed to draw up a budgetary plan and the budgetary control methods for specific projects. The different methods of project implementation, and the monitoring methods used for evaluating these projects. The discussions within the text would also range from how to apply project life cycle models in specific development projects, the costing methods involved in managing fixed and variable assets, and project management simulation exercises. Section 1 focuses on simulating the theoretical concepts, and how a full body of a project can be conceptualized from the initiation stages to finishing. Section 11 applies the feasibility evaluation to practical usage for the daily activities of the development worker. The book serves as an introduction to project management for the student, rural worker, and middle class workers that work in large institutions within Less Developed Countries (LDCs)