Transcript Project Management Overview

Project Management Education
The Develop Phase
Agenda
• Introductions
• Project Management
Review
• The Develop Phase
• Project Execution
• Project Control
• Wrap-up
Introductions
• Name
• Department
• Number of years at the
company
• Number of projects you
have managed
• Average size of project
you have managed
• Course expectations
• Ice breaker
Ground Rules
• Level Playing Field (titles
left at the door)
• One conversation at a time
• Respect opinions of others
• No beating a dead horse
• Come back from breaks
ON TIME
• Have FUN
Course Objectives - to Understand:
• What is the Develop
Phase
• The cyclical
relationship between
execution & control
• The areas of execution
• The areas of control
Student Objectives
• What are your
objectives?
Brain Teaser
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Project Management Review
Definitions
• A project is “a temporary
endeavor undertaken to
create a unique product or
service”
• Project management is
“the application of
knowledge, skills tools
and techniques to project
activities in order to meet
or exceed stakeholder
needs and expectations
from a project”
Characteristics of a Project Manager
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Communication skills
Facilitation skills
Leadership skills
Organizational skills
Negotiating skills
Project Management
Technical skills
Project Lifecycle
Concept
Project or phase is approved
in order to proceed
As the execution is
controlled, it may require
additional planning
Develop
Controlling
Processes
Define
Plan developed for execution
Plan is executed and Controlled
Feedback in both directions
Plan and execution
has been controlled
Executing
Processes
Plan is successfully executed
Deliver
9 PMI PM Knowledge Areas
• Scope
• Time
• Cost
• Risk
• Quality
• Human Resource
• Communications
• Procurement/Contract
• Project Integration
Triple Constraint
As project managers, we are always trying to
manage the constraints of product, schedule, and
budget
… The “Triple Constraint”
The Concept Phase - Review
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Identified the Scope and Objectives
Initiated the Project
Analyzed Project Stakeholders
Prepared High Level Estimates
Created the Project Charter
Did Initial Resource Planning
The Define Phase - Review
• Created Specific Design Documents
Needed to Guide the Project
• Identified the Project Activities
• Estimated Activity Durations
• Identified Activity Dependencies
• Developed the Project Schedule
• Identified the Critical Path and Created the
Project Baseline
Brain Teaser
NO NO
CORRECT
The Develop Phase
Develop Phase Interaction
Concept
Project or phase is approved
in order to proceed
As the execution is
controlled, it may require
additional planning
Develop
Controlling
Processes
Define
Plan developed for execution
Plan is executed and Controlled
Feedback in both directions
Plan and execution
has been controlled
Executing
Processes
Plan is successfully executed
Deliver
Executing Processes
Project Plan Execution
• The primary process for carrying out the project plan. In this
process, the project manager and the project management team
must coordinate and direct the various technical and organizational
interfaces that exist in the project.
Inputs
1. Project plan
2. Supporting detail
3. Organizational
policies
4. Corrective action
Tools & Techniques
1. General management
skills
2. Product skills and
knowledge
3. Work authorization
system
4. Status review meeting
5. Project management
information system
6. Org. procedures
Outputs
1. Work results
2. Change requests
Scope Verification
• The process of formalizing acceptance of the project scope and
work results by the stakeholders. It is primarily concerned with
acceptance of work results while quality control is primarily
concerned with the correctness of the work results.
Inputs
1. Work results
2. Product
documentation
Tools & Techniques
1. Inspection
Outputs
1. Formal acceptance
2. Delivery Acceptance
Form
Quality Assurance
• All the planned and systematic activities implemented within the
quality system to provide confidence that the project will satisfy
the relevant quality standards.
Inputs
Tools & Techniques
Outputs
1. Quality management
plan
2. Results of quality
control measurements
3. Operational
definitions
1. Quality planning tools
and techniques
2. Quality audits
1. Quality improvement
Team Development
• Includes both enhancing the ability of stakeholders to contribute
as individuals as well as enhancing the ability of the team to
function as a team. Individual development is the foundation
necessary to develop the team, and is critical to the project.
Inputs
Tools & Techniques
Outputs
1. Project staff
2. Project plan
3. Staffing management
plan
4. Performance reports
5. External feedback
1. Team-building
activities
2. General management
skills
3. Reward & recognition
systems
4. Collocation
5. Training
1. Performance
improvements
2. Input to performance
appraisals
Information Distribution
• Involves making needed information available to project
stakeholders in a timely manner. It includes implementing the
communications management plan as well as responding to
unexpected requests for information.
Inputs
1. Work results
2. Communications
management plan
3. Project plan
Tools & Techniques
Outputs
1. Communications
skills
2. Information retrieval
systems
3. Information
distribution systems
1. Project records
Solicitation
• Involves obtaining information (bids and proposals) from
prospective sellers on how project needs can be met.
Inputs
Tools & Techniques
1. Procurement
documents
2. Qualified seller lists
1. Bidders conferences
2. Advertising
Outputs
1. Proposals
Source Selection
• Involves the receipt of bids and the application of the evaluation
criteria to select a provider. The process is not straightforward:
– Price may be the primary determinant for an off-the-shelf item, but the lowest
proposed price may not be the lowest cost if the seller proves unable to
deliver.
– Proposals are often separated into technical (approach) & commercial (price).
Inputs
1. Proposals
2. Evaluation criteria
3. Organizational
policies
Tools & Techniques
1. Contract negotiation
2. Weighting system
3. Screening system
4. Independent estimates
Outputs
1. Contract
Contract Administration
• The process of ensuring that the seller’s performance meets
contractual requirements. On larger projects with multiple
product and service providers, a key aspect of contract
administration is managing the interfaces among providers.
Inputs
1. Contract
2. Work results
3. Change requests
4. Seller invoices
Tools & Techniques
1. Contract change
control system
2. Performance
reporting
3. Payment system
Outputs
1. Correspondence
2. Contract changes
3. Payment requests
Controlling Processes
Class Role Play - Status Meeting
Brain Teaser
9ALL5
Issues Management
• Involves recording, organizing and prioritizing project
issues that affect cost or schedule and maintaining a
current status on each issue through its resolution.
Inputs
Tools & Techniques
Outputs
1. Project plan
2. Project Issues
3. Decision & Approval
authority structure
1. Issue logging system
2. Status meetings
3. Issue routing &
approval matrix
4. Issue resolution
procedures
1. Up-to-date issue log
2. Resolved issues
Class Exercise - Issues Management
• You have 15 minutes to use the issue
template to document two issues related to
the buying the car project
• We will take 10 minutes to discuss your
answers
Overall Change Control
• Concerned with influencing the factors which create changes to
ensure that changes are beneficial; determining that a change
has occurred; and managing the actual changes as they occur
Inputs
Tools & Techniques
Outputs
1. Project plan
2. Performance reports
3. Change requests
1. Change control
system
2. Configuration mgmt
3. Performance
measurement
4. Additional planning
5. Project management
information system
1. Project plan updates
2. Corrective action
3. Lessons learned
Scope Change Control
• Concerned with:
– Influencing the factors that create scope changes to ensure changes are
beneficial
– Determining that a scope change has occurred
– Managing the actual changes when and if they occur
Inputs
Tools & Techniques
1. Work breakdown
structure
2. Performance reports
3. Change requests
4. Scope management
plan
1. Scope change control
system (cc form)
2. Performance
measurement
3. Additional planning
Outputs
1. Scope changes
2. Corrective action
3. Lessons learned
Class Exercise - Scope Change
• Each team will have 15 minutes to
document two scope changes as it relates to
the buying a car project using the scope
change template
• We will take 5 minutes to discuss your
answers
Schedule Control
• Concerned with:
– Influencing the factors that create schedule changes to ensure they are
beneficial
– Determining that the schedule has changed
– Managing the actual changes when and as they occur
Inputs
Tools & Techniques
1. Project schedule
2. Performance reports
3. Change requests
4. Schedule
management plan
1. Schedule change
control system
2. Performance
measurement
3. Additional planning
4. Project management
software
Outputs
1. Schedule updates
2. Corrective action
3. Lessons learned
Re-roofing Schedule Change Example
Roofing Network Logic Diagram
ES =5
EF =6
Remove
Shingles
D=1
LS =6
LF =6
TF =1
ES =1
EF = 1 ES =2
Measure
Roof
D=1
LS =1 LF = 1
TF =0
EF =2
Calculate
Materials
D=1
LS =2
TF =0
ES =3
EF =3
Purchase
Materials
D=1
LF =2
LS =3
TF =0
ES =4
EF =4
Take Delivery
LS =4
EF =5
Remove
Nails
D=2
D=1
LF =3
ES =5
LF =4
TF =0
LS =5
LF =6
TF =0
ES =5
EF =5
Cut Caps
D=1
LS =6
LF =6
TF =1
ES =7
EF =9
Apply
Shingles
D=3
LS =7
TF =0
LF =9
ES =10 EF =11
Apply Caps
D=2
LS =10 LF =11
TF =0
Class Exercise - Schedule Change
• Each team will have 15 minutes to evaluate
two task duration changes. Recalculate the
ES-EF/LF-SL and total float parameters
• We will take 10 minutes to discuss your
answers
Cost Control
• Concerned with:
– Influencing the factors that create changes to ensure changes are beneficial
– Determining that the cost baseline has changed
– Managing the actual changes when and if they occur
Inputs
Tools & Techniques
1. Cost baseline
2. Performance reports
3. Change requests
4. Cost management
plan
1. Cost change control
system
2. Performance
measurement
3. Additional planning
4. Computerized tools
Outputs
1. Revised cost
estimates
2. Budget updates
3. Corrective action
4. Estimate at
completion
5. Lessons learned
Cost Management Worksheet
• The Cost Management Worksheet is used
for larger projects that have their own cost
center
• For smaller projects the Project Manager
must manage and report on costs, but may
have to pull the information from specific
cost center reports
Project Quality Overview
• Quality Planning Identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project, and
determining how to satisfy them.
• Quality Assurance The process of evaluating overall project performance on a regular
basis to provide confidence that the project will satisfy the relevant
standards.
• Quality Control The process of monitoring specific project results to determine if
they comply with relevant quality standards and identifying ways to
eliminate causes of unsatisfactory performance.
Company Project Quality
• The company does not have universal project
quality standards or advanced tools and templates
• We have successfully used test plans for software
projects as the basis for quality control
• Successful project teams will identify relevant
standards and test for quality in the deliverables of
the project and experience only small amounts of
re-work resulting from quality problems
Quality Control
• Monitoring specific project results to determine if they comply
with relevant quality standards and identifying ways to eliminate
causes of unsatisfactory results.
Inputs
1. Work results
2. Quality management
plan
3. Operational
definitions
4. Checklists
Tools & Techniques
1. Inspection
2. Control charts
3. Pareto diagrams
4. Statistical sampling
5. Flowcharting
6. Trend analysis
Outputs
1. Quality improvement
2. Acceptance decisions
3. Rework
4. Completed checklists
5. Process adjustments
Quality Control
• The project management team should have a working
knowledge of statistical quality control, especially sampling and
probability, to help them evaluate quality control outputs.
Among other subjects, they should know the differences
between:
– Prevention (keeping errors out of the process) and inspection (keeping
errors out of the hands of the customer)
– Attribute sampling (the result conforms or it does not) and variables
sampling (the result is rated on a continuous scale that measures degree
of conformity)
– Special causes (unusual events) and random causes (normal process
variation)
– Tolerances (the result is acceptable if it falls within the range specified
by the tolerance) and control limits (the process is in control if the result
falls within the control limits)
Brain Teaser
PLASMA
H2O
Risk Response Control
• Involves executing the risk management plan in order to respond
to risk events over the course of the project. When changes occur,
the basic cycle of identify, quantify, and respond is repeated.
Inputs
1. Risk management
plan
2. Actual risk events
3. Additional risk
identification
Tools & Techniques
1. Workarounds
2. Additional risk
response development
(Risk Assessment)
Outputs
1. Corrective action
2. Updates to risk
management plan
(Risk Matrix)
Class Exercise - Risk Response
• You have 20 minutes to evaluate a series of
risks associated to the buying a car project
• Complete the risk-response matrix
• We will take 10 minutes to discuss your
answers
Performance Reporting
• Involves collecting and disseminating performance information
in order to provide stakeholders with information about how
resources are being used to achieve project objectives. This
includes Status Reporting, Progress Reporting & Forecasting.
Inputs
Tools & Techniques
Outputs
1. Project plan
2. Work results
3. Other project
records
1. Performance reviews
2. Variance analysis
3. Trend analysis
4. Earned value analysis
5. Information
distribution tools and
techniques
(Project tracking
meeting agenda)
1. Performance reports
(Status Report)
2. Change requests
(Change Request)
Class Exercise - Project Status Report
• You have 30 minutes to write a status report for
the buying a car project including the issues, scope
change, and risk-response matrices
• Each team should also conduct a project status
tracking meeting according to
standard project tracking agenda
Administrative Closure
• Consists of verifying and documenting project results to
formalize acceptance of the product of the project by the
sponsor, client, or customer. It includes collection of project
records, ensuring that they reflect final specifications.
Inputs
Tools & Techniques
1. Performance
measurement
documentation
2. Documentation of the
product of the project
3. Other project records
1. Performance
reporting tools and
techniques
2. Work release plan
3. Interviews with
Project Stakeholders
Outputs
1. Project archives
2. Formal acceptance
3. Lessons learned
Class Wrap-Up
Course Objectives - Review
• What is the Develop
Phase
• The cyclical
relationship between
execution & control
• The areas of execution
• The areas of control
Wrap Up Student Objectives
• Did we meet your
objectives?
/ Chart
• What was good about
the class?
• What could be
improved?
• What could be
changed to make the
class better?
Thank You!
• Please fill out the class
evaluation and give it
to the instructor before
you leave!