Osborne, Project Development Management Studies

Real estate development project management is essential for real estate companies. The carefully pre-planning, market research, feasibility-studies, economic analysis and evaluation, as well as the post-marketing & planning must be realized by the whole process of project management to achieve the final product. Thus, in the market of increasingly severe competition, with the background of the financial turmoil in the globe, the research on real estate companies'use of modern scientific theories and methodology of project management to improve the level of real estate development will be of great practical significance.This thesis is studied and completed by using the project of OSBORNE development projects as the main case; applying the modern project management theories, combining author's own experience in the practice of real estate project management. The study on the project management is explored in term of time management, cost management, quality control and risk of management of real estate development projects. Firstly, the main body of the article elaborated on the concepts of projects and real estate projects, project management and real estate development project management, and then described theories on the project time management, project cost management and project quality and risk control to build the framework of the full study. Then, the article analyzes so as to insight the problems and the reasons of the OSBORNE project management. Based on above definition and analysis in the thesis, the studies focus on the improvement of OSBORNE project management, and provides the practical recommendations to improve the project management from the project time management, cost management, quality and risk management three aspects. The objectives of the studies will provide effective guidance to other real estate development project management.