Title: 5Phase Project Management
15-Phase Project Management
25-Phase Project ManagementWhat is a Project?
- Many people involved, usually across several
functional areas in the organizations. - Sequenced activities.
- Goal-oriented.
- End product or service must result.
- Complex and numerous activities.
- Unique a one-time set of events
- Finite with a begin and end date.
- Limited resources and budget
35-Phase Project ManagementWhat is a Project
Management?
- PLANNING
- INVOLVES THE ESTABLISHMENT OF CLEAR AND PRECISE
OBJECTIVES IN ORDER TO REACH A FINAL, STATED GOAL
- ORGANIZING
- ASSEMBLY OF NECESSARY RESOURCES FOR CARRYING OUT
THE WORK DEFINED IN THE PLAN - CONTROLLING
- MONITOR AND MAINTAIN AS THE PROJECT PROGRESSES
- CHANGE
- INSTITUTING MECHANISMS NEEDED FOR SITUATIONS THAT
REQUIRE CHANGE
45-Phase Project ManagementThe 5-Phase Method
- The 5-Phase Method contains specific steps
that expand the general process into a detailed
set of procedures. - 1. Define (5 Action Steps)
- 2 Plan (5 Action Steps)
- 3. Organize (5 Action Steps)
- 4. Control (5 Action Steps)
- 5. Close (5 Action Steps)
- 1 2 Planning 3, 4 5 Implementation
55-Phase Project ManagementCauses of Project
Failure
- The Project is a solution in search of a problem.
- Only the project team is interested in the end
result. - No one is in charge.
- The project plan lacks structure.
- The project plan lacks detail.
- The project is under budgeted.
- Insufficient resources are allocated.
- The project is not tracked against its plan.
- The project team is not communicating.
- The project strays from its original goals.
65-Phase Project ManagementProblem Identification
- What is the problem/opportunity?
- What is to be done?
- Who is responsible for the project?
- When must the project be completed?
75-Phase Project ManagementProject Goals -
Identification
- Prepare and launch the new shuttle line Atlantis
from Earth to the Moon Colony by March 5, 2025. - Connect Italy with Sicily via the new G.
Garibaldi world's longest single-span suspension
bridge and have it open for traffic no later then
July 2008. - Design and complete testing by April, 2005, of MS
Project 2005, Project Management software. - Obtain an MSc. Degree in the EESI program from
the Royal Institute of Technology by spring next
year.
85-Phase Project ManagementObjectives
MilestonesThe S.M.A.R.T. method
- Specific Be specific in targeting an objective
- Measurable Establish a measurable indicator(s)
of progress. - Aassignable Make the objective capable of being
assigned to someone for completion. - Realistic State what can be realistically
achieved within budgeted time and resources. - Time-related State when the objective can be
achieved, that is, the duration.
95-Phase Project ManagementResources, Assumptions
and Risks
- Determine preliminary resources
- 1. The resources were determined without project
manager input. - 2. The project manager determined the needed
resources based on the plan. - Identify Assumptions and risks
- 1. What resources are required to realistically
complete this objective? What risks are
associated with obtaining any of these resources
in a timely manner? - 2. What problems and delays are likely to occur
in completing this objective? - 3. What effect(s) will delays have on the budget
and overall project schedule and plan? - 4. What are the probable time, money, and
personell cost overruns to complete this project? - 5. What assumptions can be made to realistically
correctfor delays in completing this objective
within given resources and constraints?
105-Phase Project ManagementWBS Work Breakdown
Structure (1)
- WBS is a simple decomposition process, i.e. a
hierarchical representation of the project. - WBS identifies the activities that must be done
tobegin and complete a project. - WBS involves the envisioning of the project as a
hierarchy of a goal, objectives, activities,
subactivities and work packages. - Milestones are events that signify the
accomplishment or completion of major
deliverables during a project.
115-Phase Project ManagementSuccesfull Work
Breakdown Structure (2)
- Each activity in the WBS will be
- Single-purposed
- Of a specific time duration
- Manageable
- Its time and cost easily derived
- Deliverables clearly understood
- Responisibilities for its completion clearly
assigned - The final defined activities will be known as
entities
125-Phase Project ManagementSteps Work Breakdown
Structure (3)
- Step 1
- Divide the project into its major objectives such
that the project is fully defined by the
objectives. - Step 2
- Partition each objective into the activities that
must be done in order to accomplish the
objective. - Step 3
- For each activity having one or more missing
characteristics divide that activity into the
subactivities comprising it. - Step 4
- Repeat step 3 until all subactivities have the
characteristics desired. - Step 5
- The lowest-level subactivities in the hierarchy
will be the basis of the work packages that must
be done in order to complete the project.
135-Phase Project ManagementGantt Charts (1)
- History
- developed by Henry Gantt (1861-1919)
- First used in Frankford ammunition shops in 1914
(World War I Naval Ships) - Milestone markers, time outlines
- Took 80 years to add task dependecies
- popular since inception and is widely used today
- precusor of CPM/PERT
145-Phase Project ManagementGantt Charts (2)
- Project management tool
- Horizontal line or bar chart
- Time ordered listing of planned events
- Visual representation of an organizations
schedule for milestones - Graph with bar representing time for each
activity - Ideal for starting project work description
- schedules and plans activities
155-Phase Project ManagementGantt Charts (3)
- Helps identify
- start of activities
- end of activities
- slack time
- amount of time an activity can be delayed without
delaying the project - precedence relationships between activities
165-Phase Project ManagementPERT Charts (1)
- What is a PERT Chart?
- Program Evaluation and Review Technique
- Project management tool
- Complex network diagrams
- Used to schedule, coordinate and organize tasks
within a project
- History of PERT Charts
- United States Navy (Polaris Program) 1958
- RAND Corporation Missile Development
- Post World War II (1950s)
- Critical Path Method/Analysis (CPM) Developed
by Du Pont 1957 - Gives managers greater control of larger projects
175-Phase Project ManagementHow Charts Are Made
- Gantt Charts
- Time across the top
- Tasks listed down the sides
- Lines connecting dependent tasks
- PERT Charts
- Grouped by most critical path
- Dependencies are clearly identified
- Task times are included in boxes / circles
185-Phase Project ManagementSteps Critical Path
Method (CPM)
- The Critical Path for a project is that sequence
of dependent tasks that have the largest sum of
most likely durations. The critical path
determines the earliest possible completion date
of the project. - Tasks that are on the critical path cannot be
delayed without delaying the entire project
schedule. - The slack time available for any noncritical task
is the amount of delay that can be tolerated
between the starting time and completion time of
a task without causing a delay in the completion
date of the entire project. - For each path, sum the durations of all tasks in
the path.The path with the longest total duration
is the Critical Path.The critical path for a
project is that sequence of dependent tasks that
have the largest sum of most likely durations.
The critical path determines the earliest
completion date of the project.The slack time
available for any noncritical task is the amount
of delay that can be tolerated between the
starting time and completion time of a task
without causing a delay in the completion date of
the entire project.
195-Phase Project ManagementCritical Path Method
(CPM)
205-Phase Project ManagementTime, Cost and Project
Activities
- Estimating Activity Time
- Optimistic completion time
- Pessimistic completion time
- Most likely completion time
- So we can use this formula to calculate the E
Expected completion time of activity - Average activity completion time E (O4MP)/6
- Formula gives the weighted average
- Estimating Activity Cost
- Labor
- Materials
- Other direct (travel, telephone, contracted
services, etc.) - Indirect (overhead)
- CPM Critical Path Method (sequencing and
identifying critical project activities)