Professional Documents
Culture Documents
An Introduction
Prototype
• New Spec.
• Marketing
New Product • New Technology
Product II
What is Project Management?
• A method to organize works/duties
• A regularly framework to help the group work
productively
• A tool for assisting in the task sequence, dependency
analysis, resource allocation, scheduling, etc.
• A tool for tracking the progress to the plan
Why we need the Project Management?
The complexity of the project requires:
Many people
Many resources (laboratories, equipment, etc.)
Many tasks - some tasks must precede other
Many of the points decision - approval
Expenditure of funds in stages
Matching people / resources to tasks
Why we need Project Management?
Need of POAC
◦ Planning
◦ Organizing
◦ Actuating
◦ Controlling
Many future activity is activity oriented
team and/or multi-organization
◦ How to help the team work together
◦ Starting a business planning / new business
The purpose of Project Management
Achieve the project objectives
Working Thesis - on time
Making customers happy
Keeping the team focused on goals
Gives confidence that the team members worked well
Everyone shares the load
…
Scope, Resources,
Schedule & Customers
General Stages
Pre-
Feasibility
Study Feasibility
Study
idea
Detailed
Engineering
Design
Close-out
Project
Commissioning Execution
and Project
Operation
Evaluation
Tender
Process
Stages of a project
Stage 1: idea & (pre) feasibility – identifying
project objectives / set up project brief
10
Stages of a project
Technical People
How to Start?
Starting with the core of what do you want to do
Draw a block diagram of your system
"Architecture"
Create a more detailed flow chart
Identifying modules/workgroups
Create a benchmark of the final result
A list of all tasks that may be required in order to
materialize
Organizing tasks
Do some or all of the above-mentioned
Planning mechanism
Set project objectives
Define work breakdown structure (WBS)
◦ Identify tasks and sub-tasks - report / product
◦ Bottom elements - separate work package
Identify the relationship between task
Identify risks that may arise
Estimate the works (people, time, etc..)
Create an initial schedule
Write planning
Documentation
Task Dependences and Critical Path
• Sometimes the task B can not start before the
completion of the task A
• Another obstacle types - calendar, delays, etc.
• Critical path - much to the overall project delay
• Useful for knowing what tasks are on the critical path
• Useful for trying to shorten the critical path
Ex: WBS - Buy A House
` BUY A HOUSE
- Determine
1 - Criteria 3 6 - Type of House 11
affordability
- Determine
- Visit - Find Real
2 4 mortgage 7 12
Locations Estate Agent
provider
- Lockup
- Look for
5 mortgage 8 13
House
commitment
10 - Closing
Scheduling Techniques
• PERT – Program Evaluation and Review techniques
• CPM – Critical Path Method
Buy a House
ek 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4
ID Task Name M T W T F S S M T W T F S S M T W T F S S M T W T
1 BUY HOUSE 2/5
2 LOCATION 2/5
3 Determine location criteria