PM-4615: Cost and Scheduling of a Project

Carlisle, H. M. (1964). Aerospace industries and the budgeting function. California Management Review, 6(3), 17-42.
The article discusses the budgeting function in the U.S. aerospace industry in the 1960's.

Middleton, C. J. (1967). How to set up a project organization. Harvard Business Review, 45(2), 73–82.
The article discusses the project management technique of assigning tasks to special units instead of departments already within the organizations.

Bucatinsky, J. (1974). Using PERT to manage high technology projects. Interfaces, 4(3), 84-89.
This article focuses on the effectiveness of using PERT (program evaluation and review technique) in managing high technology projects.

Tausworthe, R. C. (1979). The work breakdown structure in software project management. The Journal of Systems & Software, 1, 181–186.
The article summarizes the use of the WBS in software implementation projects. It also identifies some of the problems people have had generating software WBSs, and the need for standard checklists of items to be included.

Stanley, R. H. (1973). Project and construction management: an approach to meeting owner’s needs. Consulting Engineer, 41, 103.
The article explains the functions of desired measures of cost and an inducement to the development of improved techniques and procedures for supplying appropriate cost information to management.

McConnell, D. R., & McConnell, D. R. (1985). Earned value technique for performance measurement. Journal of Management in Engineering, 1(2), 79–94.
The article identifies functional managers and subcontractors responsible for work performance. Each control point is represented by a cost account and establishes the lowest level for evaluating cost and schedule performance.

Chaffee J.B., Fellman R.T., Smith J.J. (1987). Earned value as an appropriate tool for controlling remedial planning contracts.
The article presents the earned value system for project control, and it is evaluated for its usefulness in controlling remedial planning contracts.

Newkirk, C., & Newkirk, N. (1983). Planning and productivity - part 1: project estimating what’s so tough about it? ICP Software Business Review, 6, 26.
This article presents some results of an analysis of time estimating behavior on critical path networks used in large scale development projects.

Coates, J. B. (1976). Tool costs and tool estimating. Production Engineer, 55(4), 201.
This article explores various tools and techniques used for parametric estimating.

Sullivan, K. B. (1987). For job estimating tasks, PC is replacing pad and pencil. PC Week, 20, 61.
The article presents estimating packages and project management and accounting programs with job estimating modules.

O’Brien, G. T. (1986). Estimating design costs. Machine Design, 75.
The article discusses the importance of including every task for estimating, as it is a discrete part of the design.