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PROJECT MANAGEMENT
OVERVIEW
Lecture 1: 13 January 2010
• Background Scenario
• What is Project
• Projects vs. Operational Work
• What is Project Management
• Project Life Cycle & Project Task
• Story: Why project fail?
– Exercise 1
Project Management
Statistics
Project Characteristics
• Temporary: means that every project has
a definite beginning and a definite end.
• Unique Products, Services or Results: A
projects creates unique output, which are
products, services or results.
• Progressive Elaboration: means
developing in stages and continuing by
increments.
Project Attributes
• A project:
– Has a unique purpose.
– Is temporary.
– Is developed using progressive elaboration.
– Requires resources, often from various areas.
– + Should have a primary customer or sponsor.
• The project sponsor usually provides the direction and
funding for the project.
– + Involves uncertainty.
Projects vs. Operational Work
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Project Management
Framework
Project Stakeholders
• Stakeholders are the people involved in or affected
by project activities.
• Stakeholders include:
– Project sponsor
– Project manager
– Project team
– Support staff
– Customers
– Users
– Suppliers
– Opponents to the project
9 Project Management
Knowledge Areas
• Knowledge areas describe the key competencies
that project managers must develop.
– Four core knowledge areas lead to specific project
objectives (scope, time, cost, and quality).
– Four facilitating knowledge areas are the means
through which the project objectives are achieved
(human resources, communication, risk, and
procurement management).
– One knowledge area (project integration management)
affects and is affected by all of the other knowledge
areas.
– All knowledge areas are important!
Project Management Tools &
Techniques
• Project management tools and techniques
assist project managers and their teams in
various aspects of project management.
• Specific tools and techniques include:
– Project charters, scope statements and WBS
(scope).
– Gantt charts, network diagrams, critical path
analyses, critical chain scheduling (time).
– Cost estimates and earned value management
(cost).
Project Life Cycle
Project Project
Review Definition
Planning
Closing
Project
Project
Monitoring Detailed
& Control Planning
Project
Execution
Basic PM Lifecycle
Initiating Planning
Closing
Controlling Executing
Associated Outputs
• Initiating – Project Feasibility, Project
Initiation/Kick-off Document
• Planning – Gantt Charts, WBS, Schedules,
Task Lists, Resource Levelling Charts
• Executing/Controlling – Task Lists, Issue
Lists, Bug Lists, Deliverables
• Closing – Close-out Documents, Customer
Satisfaction Assessments, Payment (!)
Initiation – Project
Objective
• The most powerful tool for initiation
is a very simple statement of the
objective of the project:
– Strategy: WHAT – you are going to do
– Tactics: HOW – you are going to do it,
including parameters
– Objective/Goal: WHY - Measurable
business benefit.
Initiation – Project Objective
• Customer/client/management knows
the exact scope of the project
• Closing is just a matter of
acknowledging that everything
agreed has been delivered -- WRITE
IT DOWN! (incl future support
agreement, etc)
Closing – Closure Document
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