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Project Management for Engineers-
Dr.Nguyen Thi Duc Nguyen
Project Management
An emerging career track
• Many people now have the title of Project

Manager.
• Association for PM (PMI- Project Management
Institute)
• 1991: 5,000 member; 1998: 36,000,
• 2010;270,000 PMPs in 125 countries.
• MS Project 98: more than 2 million users
Project Management for Engineers- Dr.Nguyen Thi
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Instructor: Dr. Nguyen Thi Duc Nguyen, School of Industrial Management, HCMUT
Project Management Institute
• PMI founded in 1969 offers certificates of PMP

(Project Management Professionals)
• (to professionals that pass a comprehensive
examination and document their experience in
PM)
• CAPM(Certificate Associate in PM) to students
that master the Project management body of
knowledge.
• A company need a PMP to conduct its projects.
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Career track
• There are three tracks

– General management
– Project management
– Technician
Forcing a technologist to become a manager just so

she can make more money: lose a good
technologist and gain a mediocre-even
poor-manager.
If you really hate dealing with “people”
issues, don’t be a manager .
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Project Management
Malpractice (ref)
• Malpractice: fail to follow accepted

procedures in a certain discipline (every year
many doctors are sued for Malpractice)
• Project:Trans-Alaska Pipeline:
• Over cost $1.6 billion/8 billion
• Reasons: too simple GANTT chart, without
WBS Work Breakdown Structure, without
clear responsibility, slow report system..
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What is a project?
A project is a temporary endeavor undertaken to

create a unique product, service,or result.
° One time
°A result/outcome/deliverable
°A beginning and an end
°Unique
(Is not on-going operations)
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Project Management :
an emerging career track. Why?
• Building of pyramids in Egypt, aqueduct

(waterworks) in antiquity.
• Building St. Peter's Basilica in Rome
(Constructor Michelangelo )
– incomplete specifications,
– insufficient labor, unsure funding
– powerful customers.
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PM: an emerging career track

• Tom Peters: projectized companies: agile and
client-oriented
• Fortune magazine PM :#1 career choice in the
post reengineering age.
• (Thanks to automation and computerization: free
people from repetitive work focusing on creation
new products and services need for projects
• “Reengineering" new employment paradigm
(1990s): flattened organizations or revamped
them entirely
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Prof. Oren Hararai (Uni. of San
Francisco):future of business: network of
unaffiliated companies; work revolving around
projects; people quickly come together, focus
on problems and solutions and then disband!
•Tom Stewart:( Fortune): Companies have
redrawn their boundaries, making them both
tight (focus on core competencies) and porous
(outsource noncore work)
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• Pen Stout (specializing in PM of
biopharmaceutical firms): independent worker
and major corporations. Project management
because it’s the way for strong big companies
to use the strength of the smalls.
• Clement Ngo Anh: Outside :Compaq, Toshiba,
IBM, HP, Dell, Acer, Packard Bell. Inside:
CPU:Intel, Cyrix,AMD. Hardisk: Seagate or
Conner, Western Digital, Maxtor

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Why does everyone want to be a

project manager?
• The world of employment: uncertain. PM skills
help transcend corporate and industry
boundaries. Change means project
• The increasing pace of change
• current products are becoming obsolete faster
than ever. The internet and all its offspring create
new cyber-economy.
• Greater change = more innovations = more
projects.
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Understanding PM is benefitable.
• Contents of PM: How

To get agreement on goals and how to reach
them.
to enlist team members and project sponsors
To negociate schedules and budgets
To reduce risks and increase the odds of
success

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PM:Art informed by Science
• PM :Art + Science
• Science of PM (knowledge, theory,
methodology) provides a foundation for the
art of leadership
• PM skills can be learned.
• PM tools: PM systematic processes can be
taught in classes
• Management = Process
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Factors for success in PM

(Eric Verzuh, Director of Versatile Company)
• 1-Agreement on the goals of the project
• 2-A project plan:
• to show overall path and clear responsibilities
• to measure progress during the project

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• What is a good project plan?
• A) not only: who is responsible for what and where and

when, but also:
what is possible?
• B) Estimation of the people, money, equipment, materials

necessary.
• C) As an early warning system for being late or over

budget.
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• 3. Constant, effective communication among

everyone in the project
– PM techniques are essentially communication
techniques
• 4. A controlled scope:Things completed within a

given time frame and budget.
–A PM’s ongoing task:“Managing stakeholders’
expectation» especially if change are introduced.
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5 .Management support
• P. Managers rely on people in functional
departments to supply human resources and
equipment.
• Need for ‘managing upward’ technique.
• PM Art: political and interpersonal skills,
knowing intutively when to delegate work
• But learning PM science is requisite to
practicing PM art..
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Main points of PM
To master PM tools
Interpersonnal relationship: important factor for sucess

of a project
Linear-causal view of the world does not fit the reality in

which we live need for ‘System thinking’
Politics ; an unavoidable tactics in PM (and generally in

management)

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Course instructor: Dr. Nguyen Thi Duc Nguyen, School of Industrial Management, Ho Chi Minh city University of Technology

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Project Management for Engineers-

Dr.Nguyen Thi Duc Nguyen

• Many people now have the title of Project

Project Management Institute

• PMI founded in 1969 offers certificates of PMP

Dr. Nguyen Thi Duc Nguyen 1

• There are three tracks

Forcing a technologist to become a manager just so

• Malpractice: fail to follow accepted

Dr. Nguyen Thi Duc Nguyen 2

A project is a temporary endeavor undertaken to

• Building of pyramids in Egypt, aqueduct

Dr. Nguyen Thi Duc Nguyen 3

PM: an emerging career track

PM: an emerging career track

Dr. Nguyen Thi Duc Nguyen 4

PM: an emerging career track

Project Management for Engineers- Dr.Nguyen Thi

Why does everyone want to be a

Dr. Nguyen Thi Duc Nguyen 5

• Contents of PM: How

Project Management for Engineers- Dr.Nguyen Thi

PM:Art informed by Science

Dr. Nguyen Thi Duc Nguyen 6

Factors for success in PM

• 1-Agreement on the goals of the project

• 2-A project plan:

• to show overall path and clear responsibilities

• to measure progress during the project

Project Management for Engineers- Dr.Nguyen Thi

Factors for success in PM

• What is a good project plan?

• A) not only: who is responsible for what and where and

• B) Estimation of the people, money, equipment, materials

• C) As an early warning system for being late or over

Dr. Nguyen Thi Duc Nguyen 7

Factors for success in PM

• 3. Constant, effective communication among

• 4. A controlled scope:Things completed within a

Factors for success in PM

Dr. Nguyen Thi Duc Nguyen 8

Interpersonnal relationship: important factor for sucess

Linear-causal view of the world does not fit the reality in

Politics ; an unavoidable tactics in PM (and generally in

Project Management for Engineers- Dr.Nguyen Thi

Dr. Nguyen Thi Duc Nguyen 9

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