Real World Project Management

Section One
PROJECT MANAGEMENT FOUNDATIONS
Real World Project Management

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Joseph Phillips
PMP, PMI-ACP, Project+, PSM, ITIL, CTT+
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Course Not an exam prep class
Overview
Real world project management
How project management works
Based on my experience
You and the Your projects will be different
Real World
Your organization will be
different
GAP of project management
No fluff
You and this Class
 Beginning
 Intermediate
 Advanced
 Go to what’s most important
– just like project management
Assignment: Introductions
 Background information about your company or organization

 Type of projects you manage
 Why you are doing it?
 Who will be involved?
 You asked for the project or has it been assigned to you?
Assignment
What’s the business value?
What’s the duration?
Have you identified costs?
What tools you will use?
Assignment
 What’s your SWOT?

 Integration
 Scope
 Schedule
 Cost
 Quality
 Resources
 Communication
 Risk
 Procurement
 Stakeholders
Course Checklist
What is a project?
What is project management?
Fundamentals
of Project Benefits of projects
Management
Identify the project’s life cycle
Sell and present ideas
Starting a New Project
Management Begin
Use project Statement of
Business value prioritizes conceptualizing
planning tools Work
projects your project
Business
case
Project
Scope
Statement
Organizational Process Assets
Look at what’s
Past projects Data analysis worked, didn’t
work
Prepare for Success
HOW DO YOU KNOW HOW DO YOU KNOW ASK! COMMUNICATION

YOU’RE DONE? YOU’RE SUCCESSFUL? IS KEY
Defining
Projects and HOW ARE PROJECTS
DIFFERENT FROM
Project
OPERATIONS?
Management
Defining
Projects and THEY HAVE A
BEGINNING AND AN
Project
END.
Management
Defining Projects and
Project Management
 They are temporary, but may have a
lasting result.
 MACD
 Move
 Add
 Change
 Delete
Project Management
THEY REQUIRE A BUDGET.
Defining
Projects and THEY MAY DEMAND
NEW OR DIFFERENT
Project
SKILLS.
Management
Project Management
THE FACTORS OF TIME, RESOURCES, RESULTS, AND CUSTOMER
SATISFACTION ARE INTERRELATED.
Project Management
PROJECTS ARE UNIQUE.
Defining Projects and Project Management
What is a
Unique and Has a beginning,
project? What is
singular task middle, and end
not a project?
Dedication of
Has an objective
resources
Defining Projects and Project Management
DIFFERENT TYPES OF TEMPORARY NOT AN ONGOING CONSTRAINTS AND HAVE LIMITED

SKILLS COMING ENDEAVOR TO OPERATION RISKS RESOURCES
TOGETHER ACHIEVE AN AIM
Defining  A project is a temporary endeavor
Projects and undertaken to create a unique product,
service, or result
Project  Think of all the different types of projects with
this definition…
Management
Application of knowledge, skills, tools, and
techniques to project activities to meet the project
requirements.
Accomplished through the appropriate application

Defining and integration of the project management
processes identified for the project.
Projects and
Project
Management Enables organizations to execute
projects effectively and efficiently.
PMBOK Guide, 1.2.2
INITIATING PLANNING EXECUTING
Project
Management
Life Cycle
MONITORING CLOSING
AND
CONTROLLING
Project
Scope Schedule
Integration
Project Cost Quality Resources
Management
Knowledge
Risk
Areas Communications
management
Procurement
Stakeholders
 Project management requires resources:
Defining  Materials
Projects and 

Technology
Staff
Project  Funding
Management  Management
 Facilities
Predictive and Agile
WHICH PROJECT MANAGEMENT APPROACH?
Predictive Project Management
 You can predict everything to happen in the project

 Building a house
 Creating a physical product
 Effort-driven activities
Predictive Project
Permits Prep work Foundation Exterior walls Interior walls
Roof Electrical Plumbing Carpentry Finishing
Landscaping
Agile Project Management
 Change-driven
 Work from set of prioritized requirements
 Incremental and iterative
 Follows a set of processes
 Many flavors of Agile
 Scrum
 Kanban
 Lean
 Krystal
What is a stakeholder?
 Anyone affect by the project

 Anyone that can affect the
project
 Internal
 External
Key Project Stakeholders
Project Team
Sponsor Customers
manager members
Project
Government
Suppliers management
agencies
office
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Section One

PROJECT MANAGEMENT FOUNDATIONS

Real World Project Management

How project management works

GAP of project management

 Background information about your company or organization

What’s the duration?

Have you identified costs?

What tools you will use?

 What’s your SWOT?

What is project management?

Sell and present ideas

HOW DO YOU KNOW HOW DO YOU KNOW ASK! COMMUNICATION

DIFFERENT TYPES OF TEMPORARY NOT AN ONGOING CONSTRAINTS AND HAVE LIMITED

Accomplished through the appropriate application

PMBOK Guide, 1.2.2

Project Cost Quality Resources

 You can predict everything to happen in the project

Permits Prep work Foundation Exterior walls Interior walls

Roof Electrical Plumbing Carpentry Finishing

 Anyone affect by the project

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