Project Justification and Evaluation (21st Century Project Management Series Planning Textbooks)

Author: QI Anbang, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2004-02-01
Features: Any project is a one-time effort undertaken by an organization to achieve its predetermined goals under certain constraints of time, personnel, and resources, and it possesses a certain uniqueness and uncertainty. Projects are a unique activity of human society in creating spiritual and material wealth, and each specific project generates its own unique products and services. A project can be the construction of a building, the development of an oilfield, or the construction of a dam. The main content of this book is to introduce the principles, methods, procedures, and content of justification and evaluation in modern project management. The book consists of 14 chapters, divided into three major parts. Part I provides an overview of project justification and evaluation, including concepts, functions, principles, basic content, subjects and objects, project life cycle, project evaluation and decision-making, pre-evaluation, tracking evaluation, and post-evaluation. The second part, consisting of nine chapters, covers project special evaluation and post-evaluation. The second part, consisting of nine chapters, covers the content, methods, and procedures of project special evaluation and comprehensive evaluation, mainly including: project operating environment evaluation, project technical evaluation, project financial evaluation, project national economic evaluation, project environmental evaluation, project social impact evaluation, project uncertainty and risk evaluation, project comprehensive evaluation, and project post-evaluation. The last part, consisting of three chapters, focuses on applied research in project justification and evaluation, mainly including: justification and evaluation of projects in different industries, justification and evaluation of projects of different types, and international practices in project justification and evaluation.