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Project Management 1. What is Project Management

Project Management 1. What is Project Management. Week 1. Turn your phones off. Picture by Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/notionscapital/869847216/. Welcome. 2 parts Intro – who am I, what we’ll be doing this semester, assessments

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Project Management 1. What is Project Management

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  1. Project Management1. What is Project Management

  2. Week 1

  3. Turn your phones off Picture by Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/notionscapital/869847216/

  4. Welcome • 2 parts • Intro – who am I, what we’ll be doing this semester, assessments • About projects – The Project Management Framework

  5. First 1st • Form into 12 Groups

  6. Revision Groups

  7. Second 2nd • Your motivation

  8. Who wants to be a project manager?

  9. Why?

  10. Who wants to work with a project manager?

  11. When? Where? How?

  12. A walk through the course outline Photo by Tricky at flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/sovietuk/1432861455/sizes/o/

  13. The textbook • Gray, C., & Larson, E. (2006). Project management – The managerial process (3rd ed.). NY: McGraw-Hill. 658.404 G791p3    

  14. View • > Notes Page

  15. Week 1 • The Project Management Framework

  16. 8 things you want to know • What is a Project? • Process Groups • The Triple Constraint • What is Project Management? • The Project Manager • Importance of Project Management • Project Management Framework • Integrated Approach

  17. 1. What is a Project? Beginning Middle End • All projects have a beginning, a middle and an end.

  18. Beginning Middle End • A definition: • “A temporary endeavor undertaken to accomplish a unique purpose”

  19. 1994 53% Challenged 31%Critical Failures 16% Success Not even completed Typically 189% over budget OTOBOS • Source: CHAOS Report 1995 by the Standish Group • Access it here: http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/NCP08083B.pdf 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

  20. 1998 200K 300K 2001 500K 2002 ?? 2007 • More & more IT projects are starting each year

  21. A target outcome A defined life span Cross organisational participation New or unique Time, Cost and performance requirements • Projects have a common set of characteristics which can also be defined by what they are not

  22. A target outcome A defined life span Cross organisational participation New or unique Time, Cost and performance requirements • Projects have a common set of characteristicswhich can also be defined by what they are not

  23. What a project isn’t Explorations Go on indefinitely One team or one person working alone Creating the same thing multiple times No constraints on time, cost or performance

  24. Projects v Not Projects

  25. Plan Monitor & Control Implement Process Groups Initiate Close • All projects typically go through these five processes

  26. Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Result activity inputs outputs • A process is a series of actions directed towards a particular result.

  27. Figure 1.1 Project Life Cycle (Gray & Larson, 2006, p6)

  28. PMI and the PMBOK • www.pmi.org • PMP certification • Google PMBOK.pdf

  29. There are alternatives to PMI • Numbers from Craig Brown (Sept 2007)

  30. 3. The Triple Constraint Time Scope Cost • Also known as the IRON TRIANGLE

  31. Figure 1.1 Triple Constraint of Project Management(Schwalbe, 2006, p8)

  32. The QuadrupleConstraint Quality Time Scope Cost • Warning: Quality has many definitions

  33. 4. What is Project Management? • Advantages of Project Management • Better control of financial, physical, and human resources • Improved customer relations • Shorter development times • Lower costs • Higher quality and increased reliability • Higher profit margins • Improved productivity • Better internal coordination

  34. Week 6 – Leading Teams Week 7 – Managing Teams 5. The Project Manager

  35. (Schwalbe, 2006, p17)

  36. (Schwalbe, 2006, p22)

  37. 6. Importance of Project Management • Increased use of Project Management • Compressed product life cycle • Global competition • Knowledge explosion • Corporate downsizing • Increased customer focus • Development of Third World and closed economies

  38. 7. Project Management Framework Integration Management Time Management Cost Management Scope Management Quality Management HR Management Risk Management Communication Management Procurement Management • The PMBOK’s 9 Knowledge areas

  39. Figure 1.2 Project Management Framework(Schwalbe, 2006, p9)

  40. 8. Integrated Approach • Stakeholders • are people involved in or affected by project activities • Stakeholders include: • Project sponsor • Project manager • Project team • Support staff • Customers • Suppliers • Opponents to the project • Why would a team member be a stakeholder?

  41. Sponsor & Supporters Project Team Suppliers Customers Opponents

  42. Integration Management Time Management Cost Management Scope Management Quality Management HR Management Risk Management Communication Management Procurement Management • The PMBOK’s 9 Knowledge areas

  43. Integration Management Time Management Cost Management Scope Management Quality Management HR Management Risk Management Communication Management Procurement Management • Time Management

  44. Integration Management Time Management Cost Management Scope Management Quality Management HR Management Risk Management Communication Management Procurement Management • Cost management

  45. Integration Management Time Management Cost Management Scope Management Quality Management HR Management Risk Management Communication Management Procurement Management • Scope Management

  46. Integration Management Time Management Cost Management Scope Management Quality Management HR Management Risk Management Communication Management Procurement Management • Quality Management

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