5. Projects
Without Project Management-very little would get
done.
Only 1 in 8 is a success and almost 1/3 are cancelled
before completion.
Project Managers are usually very good at process but
you need more than process!
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6. Projects are Temporary
Have a Beginning and an End
May or may not be simple!
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16. If you are not the Project Owner:
• Understand the parameters of the project and your Role
and Responsibility.
• Listen carefully for any contradictions.
• Encourage them to clarify vague ideas.
• Try to confirm your information from two or more
independent sources.
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17. First things First
Should this be a project?
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18. Is it a good use of Time and
Resources?
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19. Scope the Project
• Set of boundaries that define the extent of a project
• What does the project consist of?
• What is not included?
• As important as what is!
• Project Deliverables
• Manage Scope Creep
• Scope creep is the piling up of small changes that by
themselves are manageable, but in aggregate are significant
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21. PLANNING
Gather and document requirements
Thinking, negotiating, balancing, talking, asking, and
listening
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22. PROJECT PLAN
Project Charter
Clear ownership of tasks
Team Members
Sponsor
Track Progress
Change Management System!
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23. SCHEDULE/TIME MANAGEMENT
Project Schedule
• Activity List
• Milestones
Despite pressure to promise the impossible, never make
a commitment you know you can’t keep.
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24. MILESTONES
•Four main phases:
Initiation
Planning
Execution
Closure
Examine every deliverable, project plan, budget, etc.
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26. COST/BUDGET MANAGEMENT
•To maximize your chances of meeting your
project budget, meet your project schedule.
•Manage the project scope.
•Don't allow the project scope to "creep"
upward without getting budget and/or schedule
adjustments to match.
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27. RISK MANAGEMENT
If you don’t identify and control risks , they will
control you.
During project planning brainstorm possible risk
factors, evaluate potential threats, determine how they
can be mitigated prevented
Contingency plans
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28. QUALITY MANAGEMENT
WGLL
STANDARDS
SUCCESS
Plan to do rework after a quality control activity.
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29. HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Define the skills needed
Get people with those skills on your team
Don’t take the team for granted
Clarify Roles and Responsibilities
How does what, when, why
Act as the team coach!
Don’t put on auto pilot
Encourage, motivate, lead
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30. COMMUNICATIONS MANAGEMENT
• Have a plan and stick with
it
• Open, honest, clear
• Stakeholders
• Status Reports
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33. Evaluate!
What lessons have you learned along your project management
process?
Each project can be a valuable learning tool. Review the project
as a whole, as well as analyze various project components.
Project victories?
Project disappointments?
Make informed conclusions about the project’s quality and the
product’s performance.
Compare the planned return on investment (ROI) to the actual
ROI as one way to understand the level of your success.
You can use the lessons learned from each project to minimize
future failures and maximize future successes.
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34. Project Management as a Career
Successful project management is an art and a science
that takes practice.
The ideas presented are a basic understanding of
project management, consider it only a beginning.
If your job or career path includes project
management, and you want to improve your skills, talk
to successful project managers, read, and practice.
Project management can be a very rewarding career.
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35. PROJECT MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE
PMI
www.pmi.org
PMBOK-Project Management Book of Knowledge
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39. What is Project Management
• Project Plan
• Time Management
• Budget
• Quality Management
• Risk Management
• Team Management
• Communication Management
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40. Fail to Plan and Plan to Fail
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41. Project Plan
SCOPE MANAGEMENT
[Insert the project’s scope management plan or provide a
reference to where it is stored.]
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