front-end decision making in major projects Williams, T. M. (Terry M.) Samset, Knut 1946- Sunnevåg, Kjell J. text bibliography enk Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan c2009 2009 monographic eng

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xvi, 417 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Decisions made on scant information : overview / Terry Williams -- Projects, their quality at entry and challenges in the front-end phase / Knut Samset -- Implementing strategy through project management : the importance of managing the project front-end / Peter W.G. Morris -- Scenarios planning / Kees van der Heijden -- Up-front assessment of needs / Petter Næss -- Front-end alignment of projects : doing the right project / Terry Cooke-Davies -- Using soft systems methodology to structure project definition / Mark Winter -- Optimism and misrepresentation in early project development / Bent Flyvbjerg -- Decision behaviour : improving expert judgement / Geir Kirkebøen -- Useful heuristics / Benjamin Scheibehenne and Bettina von Helversen -- Expert judgement of probability and risk / George Wright, Fergus Bolger and Gene Rowe -- Evaluation of risks in complex problems / Gregory S. Parnell -- Obtaining distributions from groups for decisions under uncertainty / Roger M. Cooke -- Exploratory quantitative analysis of emergent problems with scant information / Tim Bedford -- Analyzing information : techniques and analyses / Bjørn Andersen -- Parametric analysis / Philip Pugh -- The impact of new information / Kjell J. Sunnevåg -- The complexity of decision-making in large projects with multiple partners : be prepared to change / Roger Miller and Brian Hobbs -- Project profitability from society's point of view / Kåre P. Hagen. edited by Terry M. Williams, Knut Samset and Kjell J. Sunnevåg. Includes bibliographical references and index. Project management Decision making HD69.P75 M353 2009 658.403 MAK 9780230205864 (hbk.) 0230205860 (hbk.) 2009281495 UKM 090911 20161221145728.0 15903110