Project Management Review

15/3/2008
project management is compleation of projects on time , on budget and to specification.

for a project to be successful
- well defined scope
- sponsor - authority and power
- budget
- will to suceed
- approval

9 PMbok areas
1 scope
2. time
3. cost
4. quality
5. Human Resources
6. Communications
7. Risk
8. Procurement

21/3/2008

project management and project delivery

project delivery: actual execution of the project, entire team works

Initiating: is the project a valid project?
Project plan : work breakdown, project schedule, project budjet
executing the project: project delivery, focussed on monitoring and control, analysis , design , development , implementation.
closing: gaining final approval of the project.

process groups (project life cycle}
-initating
- planning
- executing
- monitoring and controlling
- closing

29/3/2008

Project organizational structure

- Framework : What is the projects orgnization chart, who has the power & authority, how are employees treated (human resource), what is the work ethich in the organization, internall and external politics, who supplies the leadership, political environment, what environment the orgnization works in.
- structure: is the orgnization a functional one (traditional organizational structure)
- culture : What is the corporate identity, leader, follower,risk tolerance, focus.

Project Scope management

Scope planning:
understand the level of detail.
how successful has you organization been in this project envronment.
define the process to be used, scope management plan
Scope definition: what is included in the project, what is not included, what are the deliveribles, defining usage, final products. Critical to project success because until you define you cannot manage. Create the acceptance criteria, which deliverable, how do they measure, is it ok to have errors in final product.
scope statement includes
- objectives
- Requirements
- boundries
- deliverables
- acceptance criteria
- assumptional constraints
Create WBS: define the specific work required, it should be deliverables based, Decomposition to work required
Scope verification by senior management
Scope control