Free resources see: http://www.mosaicprojects.com.au/Planning.html

Zameer

Try

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Civil-and-Environmental-Engineering/index.htm

all

does anybody know what book is recommended for oil & gas pipeline projects?

There are many planning books published, but I have never found one that is specific for oil & gas projects.

Most of the books are written for building works


Help me pls

{quote}Wow MIT is giving away for free all their courses, you don?t even need to sign up, i can?t believe my eyes, right now i am downloading Project Management, Spring 2004 by Dr. Nathaniel Osgood.

It is free so go and pick up what you want

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/index.htm{/quote}

Thanks mimoune. I was not aware of this one before.

Stacy
Project Management Knowledge Base
Project Planning Info

Good books available

http://www.ce.cmu.edu/pmbook/

Check this

Cheers,

Raviraj A Bhedase

Hi Nieman and David,

I will give you a brief history.

During the early and middle 70’s, US of A is losing the war in Vietnam. The President of USA (Richard Nixon) feared domino effect, meaning losing all Asia to the commies as in Communist.

So to mitigate falling all Asia to Communist, the US of A propped Dictatorship sympathic or under the control of Uncle SAM. This happened also in South American Countries like Pinochet of Chile, etc.

For the dictotorship to gain the support of his countryman, he needs livelihood projects so that the people will not go hungry. The dictator do not have money so Uncle Sam loan him money and embarked on a massive construction activities related to infrastructures

That is the brief history related to the book.

So so to efficiently manage the loan a project management system must be in place.

My post number 14, "The title of the book: PERT / CPM Construction Management in government project"

Another post "The Philippine Government printed a lot of this book and distributed it to all government engineers including my dad."

In conclusion, I did inform the title of the book.

Also, the book is printed by the Philippine Goverment, so you may not find it in Amazon.com or other website selling books.

Lately, I really dont know if this book is still in circulation in Philippine Government Agencies.

I only told Ulyses to find the book hoping that maybe, he got some friends, relatives whose Dad work in DPWH, DOT DepEd, these are the agencies implementing infra works, so that he can inquire and borrow the book if available.

The good news is that the essential of planning is found in all planning books. However, some book from other countries do not want to acknowledge the origin of PERT/CPM. How PERT/CPM become a success stories. So the reader of this book do not believe that PERT/CPM is the best ever.

BUT it is different with the book im saying here because it did claim to have success stories of projects using PERT/CPM.

Cheers,

Charlie

Charlie…

Did I dream it or did you almost reply to my request that you check the title of the book you recommended as I was trying to follow your advice and find a copy.

I think you might have made a mistake in recollecting the title as Amazon and AbeBooks have no reference too it. As it was so important in your mastering of the essentials of proper project management I am sure you must remember the author?

Please can you assist me further?

Thanks in anticipation.

David

Hello Kinley Brown,

You are good or maybe the best.

The Philippine Government printed a lot of this book and distributed it to all government engineers including my dad.

The Presidential Decree was futher strengthen by P. D. 1081. It makes mandatory to have PERT/CPM part of the bid submission (technical aspect)irrespective of size. So, it was not only government engineers that got knowledge of PERT/CPM but also engineers from the contractor side getting involve with bids or tender.

1975 I’m just a kid at thirteen, not even thinking that i will kidnap the best book from my Dad’s library. I lost the book, but the fundamental or essentials is in my soul. It is very easy to catch a person with no strong base in the basic of planning, PERT/CPM

Cheers,

Charlie

Charlie
I think the first person wanted books on planning not on history of planning

Now where did I put my shoes and money
Oh yes Switzerland

Thanks for the tip Charleston.

Would you be good enough to check the title (and maybe the author) please. I checked AbeBooks as I thought there would be a few second-hand copies around following FM’s downfall but there is nothing around.

Thanks also for explaining; I have always wondered what ‘US of A’ was an abbreviation of. :-)

David

Got it thankls guys

Cheers

Alastair

Great how do I search for this course? Is there a specific page?

Thanks


Alastair

You may want to look at my web site. You can download some sample chapters of my books.

Paul E Harris
Eastwood Harris Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia
Planning and Scheduling Training Manual & Book Publishers & Consulting
www.eh.com.au

I recommend, “CPM in Construction Management, Sixth Edition” by Plotnick & O’Brien, published by Mc Graw Hill. It is a very thorough book. Good luck!

Hi Ulysses,

PMBook, Project Management Book of Knowledge.

Primavera Planning Manuals..

Cheers,

Charlie