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Chapter 1
Chapter 1
Chapter 1
PROCESS PROJECT
■ Repeat process or product ■ New process or product
■ Several objectives ■ One objective
■ Ongoing ■ One-shot-limited life
■ More heterogeneous
■ People are homogenous
■ Integrated system efforts
■ Well-established systems
■ Greater uncertainty
■ Greater certainty ■ Outside of line
■ Part line organization organization
■ Violates established
■ Established practices practice
■ Supports status quo ■ Upsets status quo
Client
Interest
Project
Stake
Resources
Creativity
Uncertainty
System Information
Use
Quality Quality
■ Level 4: Managed
■ Level 5: Optimizing
■ Level 4: Benchmarking
■ Level 1: Ad Hoc
■ Level 2: Consistent
■ Level 3: Integrated
■ Level 4: Comprehensive
■ Level 5: Optimizing
■ Level 1: Initial
■ Level 2: Managed
■ Level 3: Defined
■ Level 5: Optimizing
1. Selecting a team
5. Scheduling
6. Managing resources
6. Understand and explain the project life cycles, its stages, and
the activities that typically occur at each stage in the project.
7. Understand the concept of project “ success,” including various
definitions of success, as well as alternative models of success.
8. Understand the purpose of project management maturity
models and the process of benchmarking in organizations.
9. Identify the relevant maturity stages that organizations go
through to become proficient in their use of project
management techniques.