Transcript Project Management

Project Management
Project Management
Planning Misconceptions
Planning
Stakeholders
The Project Life Cycle
Initiation
Planning
Project Management Tools
Executing
Monitoring and Controlling
Closing
Project Management
• Planning, organizing, and managing
resources to successfully complete a project
– Achieve all project goals
– Comply with all project constraints
• Scope
• Time
• Budget
Planning Misconceptions
It’s boring
It takes too long
It’s too hard
Planning
The best laid schemes of
mice and men often go
awry.
Robert Burns, 1785 - Scottish Poet
Planning
Planning Questions
Where
When
What
Whom
How and Why
Stakeholders
“Zombie stakeholders” keep coming
. .back
. all those
who
areagain,
involved,
interested
again
and
asking
for in, or
affected by the project.
changes.
How can this be avoided?
The Project Life Cycle
Initiating
Closing
Planning, Executing, and Controlling form a loop
Project Life Cycle
•Initiation Phase
Client Needs analysis
Stakeholder input analysis
Financial analysis and budget
Constraints
Architectural program
Architectural Program
A written document that
describes the design
objectives, constraints, and
criteria of the building
project.
Initiating
Closing
Project Life Cycle
•Planning
Communications
Quality control
Human resource management
Procurement
Cost management
Schedule
Initiating
Closing
Project Management Tools
Project Organization Chart identifies and organizes
everyone involved in the project.
Project Management Tools
Gantt Chart: A bar chart representation of a project
schedule
Project Tasks . . .
 should have value rather than be
pointless.
 should be important to the entire
team, not just one member.
 are more powerful and achievable if
they are tied to deliverables.
Be ready to articulate the value
of any task to team members.
Project Life Cycle
•Execution
•Completing project tasks
•Producing deliverables
Initiating
Closing
Project Life Cycle
•Monitoring and Controlling
Measuring project activities
Monitoring project variables
•Cost
•Effort
•Scope
Implement corrective action when needed
Initiating
Closing
Project Life Cycle
•Closing
Finalize all project activities
Archive files
Document lessons learned
Initiating
Closing
Project Management
Planning Misconceptions
Planning
Stakeholders
The Project Life Cycle
Initiation
Planning
Project Management Tools
Executing
Monitoring and Controlling
Closing
Image Resources
Microsoft, Inc. (n.d.). Clip art. Retrieved September 30,
2009, from http://office.microsoft.com/enus/clipart/default.aspx