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Welcome to UEL Royal Docks Business School SMM232 IHRM & Project Management

Welcome to UEL Royal Docks Business School SMM232 IHRM & Project Management. Dr Sean Dodd MSc Project Management Programme Leader Room BS4.17 Email s.dodd@uel.ac.uk. Agenda. Introduction Background & APM Assessment Additional Activities PRINCE2. Introduction.

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Welcome to UEL Royal Docks Business School SMM232 IHRM & Project Management

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  1. Welcome to UELRoyal Docks Business School SMM232 IHRM &Project Management Dr Sean Dodd MSc Project Management Programme Leader Room BS4.17 Email s.dodd@uel.ac.uk

  2. Agenda • Introduction • Background & APM • Assessment • Additional Activities • PRINCE2

  3. Introduction • Arrive on time each week • Swipe in immediately • Mobile ’phones off • Leave all rooms clean • Contribute equally to your groups • Check UELPlus/email often • Start assessments early • Submit work early • Extenuations, pt/ft

  4. Introduction • Notes available on UELPlus • Importance of Punctuality • Student attendance is Mandatory • Direct correlation between attendance and results • Phones off, listen & remove rubbish

  5. Module Delivery • Lectures • Student presentations

  6. Assessment • Group Report & Presentation • Detailed Module Handbooks • Plagiarism policy • Study Support • Skill Zone

  7. Assessment Group Report & Presentation • 5000 words • Any area of Olympic Games • Due Monday 10 December • Turnitin not required • Harvard Referencing • See UELPlus for more information

  8. Aims of the Module To enhance your: • Theoretical knowledge • Analytical & writing skills • Qualifications • Life-long learning

  9. Skills for Life • Analytical & critical thinking • Writing & research • Communication • Management • Reflective practice

  10. Background & APM • Project management notorious for failure • Office of Government Commerce • Association for Project Management • PRINCE2

  11. Regular Project Failure • Criminal Records Bureau database • costs doubled to £400m in 2004 • Home Office IT for Asylum Seekers • cancelled after spending £77m in 2001 • Inland Revenue IT overpaid rebates • by £2b in 2004

  12. Olympic Games 2012 Fire

  13. Common Causes of Project Failure • Long project durations • Estimation methods inaccurate • Continuous change • Poor Documentation: untimely, unavailable, inconsistent, incomplete, ambiguous, incorrect • Fixed Point Theorem • Stakeholder mismanagement

  14. Useful PM’s Kit Bag • Concepts • Lifecycles, roles, requirements, definitions, governance, business case • Tools & Techniques • PBS, WBS, CPA, Gantt charts, MS Project • Project Success • Causes of failure, quality, change control • PRINCE2 • Foundation & Practitioner exams

  15. Project Manager’s Toolbag Network Diagram 5 10 15 G 25 20 35 5 20 25 D 10 5 30 START A FINISH 0 0 5 5 5 15 20 B 20 10 30 C 30 5 35 I 35 10 45 J 45 0 0 0 5 5 0 20 20 0 30 30 0 35 35 0 45 45 5 5 10 E 30 25 35 5 20 25 F 25 10 35 H 5 0 25 25 0 35

  16. Location of MSProject

  17. PRINCE2 Delivery Foundation Training & Exam • Lectures start Wednesday 17 October • 6-9pm in EB2.43 • Collect manuals from my office • Exam 14 November, 75 questions Practitioner – starts in Semester B • Training & Exam • 3 hrs, 9 questions

  18. For next week Group member list (5): name, ID & title • Choose any area related to the Games • One group per area only • See list on UELPlus for ideas • E.g. Budget, Main Stadium, Acquatics Centre, Stakeholder Management, Legacy, Lessons Learned, Rio 2016, etc.

  19. Reading • Gray, C. & Larson, E. (2008) Project management – the managerial process. McGraw-Hill

  20. Useful Journals • International Journal of Project Management • Project Management Journal • Project Manager Today • Project • PM Network

  21. Additional Activities • Project Challenge: 17-18 October, Olympia • www.projchallenge.com • APM Conference: TBC, London • www.APM.org.uk

  22. Dr Sean Dodd Programme Leader MSc Project Management Room BS4.17 Email s.dodd@uel.ac.uk Tel 0208 223 2307 Thank you & any Questions?

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