Consider the management skills required by the ancient
Egyptians to build their pyramids, by the ancient Chinese to build the Great
Wall, the management skills of the Mesopotamians to irrigate their land and wall
their cities, of the Romans when building their roads, acqueducts and Hadrian's
Wall.
All these man-made constructions required large amounts of human effort
and therefore organization, i.e. planning, controlling and coordination.
The
Great Pyramid for example is 75,600 square feet at it's base, 480 feet high, and
contains over 2 million blocks of stone, each weighting 2.5 tons. The base of
the structure is only 7 inches from being a perfect square. All this with no
computer, electronic calculator, modern materials, handling equipment or
advanced mathematical techniques
Services: Project Management
Planning, Organising, Staffing, Directing & Controlling
COS-Systems provides experts and corporate capabilities to facilitate highly complex system-oriented project management. Our expertise is skills built on experience
Procurement Management
- Bidding / Proposal Support
- Bid Evaluation & Negotiation
- Trade-off Studies
- Economic Efficiency Analysis
Controlling
- Project Control (Cost, Schedule, Resources, Earned-Value)
- Claim Management
Risk Management & Quality Management
- Independent Validation and Verification (IV&V)
Tools
PRIMAVERA, ARTEMIS, AMS Realtime, MS-Project, CA-Superproject, Teamwork, EPOS, Change 2000, VM-Tailor; PVCS Dimensions, DOREDA, CONTRUX ESTIMATE, COSMOS, FPA/COCOMO2
Techniques and Methods
PRINCE2, V-Modell, RUP, XP, Critical Path Method (CPM), Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT), Arrow Diagramming Method (ADM), Precedence Diagramming Method (PDM), Sequencing and Network Diagram, Cost/Schedule Control Systems Criteria (C/SCSC), Earned Value Management System (EVMS)