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PROJECT & PROGRAMME

MANAGEMENT
Lecture 1: Introduction to Project Management

Phil Sainter
Director of Teaching, Learning and Quality
Westminster Business School of Applied Management
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 LECTURE 1

• Introduction to the module

• Introduction to the module content area

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INTRODUCTION
TO THE
MODULE
Important information about
the module

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 INTRODUCTION
• Module learning outcome

• Reading

• Weekly sessions

• Assessment

• Links to Project Management Books of Knowledge

(APM/PMi)

• You said we did

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 MODULE LEARNING
OUTCOMES
1. Evaluate the rise of global and virtual projects.

2. Evaluate international project alignment strategies.

3. Critically analyse project and programme issues.

4. Discuss the application of project and programme management in a modern

business environment.

5. Develop a suitable risk management strategy for international project success.

6. Critically evaluate commercial and behavioural issues in the management of

projects.
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 READING

• Recommended reading

• Gray & Larson

• Weekly reading

• Check Blackboard for details

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 WEEKLY SESSIONS
• Lecture

• Provides direction for

your reading and some
problem solving sessions.

• Seminar

• Provides context for your

understanding

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 ASSESSMENT

• Coursework 1 (50%)

• Coursework 2 (50%)

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 LINKS TO
PROFESSIONAL
BODIES
APM & PMi

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 YOU SAID WE DID

• We have altered the assessment and timing

• We have altered elements of delivery to aid

understanding.

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 INTRODUCTION TO THE MODULE
CONTENT
Fundamental knowledge of the module
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 LEARNING AIMS
• Understand and define what a project is

• Understand and define what project management

is

• Understand projects have a life-cycle

• The golden rule of project management

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 HISTORY OF PROJECT
MANAGEMENT
• Modern project management began with the Manhattan Project, which the
U.S. military led to develop the atomic bomb

• In 1917 Henry Gantt developed the Gantt chart as a tool for scheduling work
in job shops

• In 1958, the Navy developed PERT charts

• In the 1970s, the military began using project management software, as did
the construction industry

• By the 1990s, virtually every industry was using some form of project
management
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 WHAT IS PROJECT
MANAGEMENT?

Project
management

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 WHAT IS PROJECT
MANAGEMENT?
limits

Project
management

Limited resources
Limited time

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 WHAT IS PROJECT
MANAGEMENT?

Project
Product / Service
management

limits Unique physical product or service

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 WHAT IS PROJECT
MANAGEMENT?
Project
Product / Service
management

A project is an unique endeavour to

generate a product or service within a
limits fixed time frame with limited
resources
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 EXAMPLES OF PROJECT
MANAGEMENT...
• Large construction projects

• Smaller projects

• Projects in the media

• A TV Show

• A movie

• For Example, Grand Designs on Channel 4 (

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/grand-designs)
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 Is it a project?

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 Is it a project?
These are not unique products, so it isn't a project

However, if were talking about this...

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 Fixed start and finish
Unique product
Limited resources

Pre-project Project Post project

Time

Start Finish

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 Pre-project
- Project details
- What is to be done
- How is it to be done
- The justification for the project
- Benefits
- Costs

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 Fixed start and finish
Unique product
Limited resources

Pre-project Project Post project

Time

Start Finish

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 - Operations
Post project - Post project analysis
- Benefits achieved

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 PRODUCT LIFE-CYCLE &
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 WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?

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 PROJECTS
OFTEN GO
WRONG
Project management is about
reducing the risk of project
failure.

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 FIVE PHASES OF PROJECT
MANAGEMENT

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 PROJECT MANAGEMENT
PHILOSOPHY
• The “Golden Rule” of Project Management is
three words:

• Plan

• Organise

• Control
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 LEARNING AIMS
• Understand and define what a project is

• Understand and define what project management

is

• Understand projects have a life-cycle

• The golden rule of project management

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 APPLYING WHAT WE HAVE
LEARNT SO FAR…

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