Project
Management
Overview
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• Define a project
• Define project success
• Project constraints
Purpose
• Project management expertise of the
• The project environment
• Project management knowledge
chapter
and skills
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• Unique product or service Define
• Time-limited
• Project ends when the objectives
a
are achieved or abandoned
project
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• How can you tell that an activity
is unique?
• Completely new product or
service
• Creation of new process
Unique
• Product or service new to
this group of people
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• May have a start and end date
• May be measured as “will be
complete when a particular
objective is achieved” Time-
• If it simply continues forever or to
an unspecified end-date it is limited
probably an ongoing business
activity
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• Objective is achieved
Can tell
• Time limit is reached
• Objective is abandoned
when it
is done
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• Traditionally: on time,
within budget and delivers
Project the promised scope
Success • More effective measure:
satisfied customer
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• In small groups, try to identify
the LARGEST project each of
you have been involved with.
• You do not have to have
Group been the project manager—if
not, what was your role?
(team member, volunteer,
work purchaser, ??)
• With the group, make it clear
how the project you have
identified meets the criteria:
• Unique
• Temporary
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Cost Scope
Project Quality Risk
constraints
Resources Time
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Triple constraint
• All the constraints can be grouped into these three:
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Project Management Expertise
Application • Industry group
• Technical specialty
knowledge • Managerial area
Understanding the • Cultural, social, political, international, physical
project environment
Management
knowledge and skills
• Communication, influence, leadership, motivation,
Interpersonal skills negotiation and problem solving
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• Standards organizations
• PMI
• Project Management
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Project • CAPM, PMP and other
professional standards
Management • IPMA
• International Project
Standards Management Association:
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tion/
• Several certifications
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Summary
PROJECT DEFINITION: PROJECT SUCCESS: PROJECT CONSTRAINTS: PROJECT MANAGEMENT
UNIQUE, TIME-LIMITED, SATISFIED CLIENT TIME, SCOPE, COST EXPERTISE
CAN TELL WHEN IT IS OVER
THE PROJECT PROJECT MANAGEMENT
ENVIRONMENT KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
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