Project Management

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Project Management Teamwork

• ELEC 4000
• V. P. Nelson R. M. Nelms

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Project Management

• What is it?
• A process for achieving the desired project goals
  in the most efficient manner
• Limited resources
• Money
• People
• Time
• We already do it.

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A Four Step Process

• Define
• Schedule
• Implement
• Complete

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Define

• Identify the project goals
• Develop a clear set of specifications related to
  the desired characteristics of the completed
  design

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Schedule

• Deadlines
• Senior design fair, final report, progress
  reports, project proposal, etc.
• Tasks
• Any project can be broken down into a set of
  tasks that must be completed individually before
  the entire project is complete

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Schedule

• Logic
• What is the logical relationship between tasks?
• Can any tasks be performed in parallel?
• Effort
• How much time is required to complete each task?

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Schedule Gannt Chart
http//www.egov-project.org/progress.htm
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Schedule Work Breakdown Structure
Source Wikipedia
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Schedule - WBS
Source Wikipedia
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Schedule

• Program Review and Evaluation Technique (PERT)
• Evolved into WBS
• Developed by DoD in 1958 for the Polaris missile
  program
• Critical Path Method (CPM)
• Developed by DuPont

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Schedule

• Resources
• What resources are necessary for each task?
• What equipment or facilities need to be
  scheduled?
• Cost
• Assign a cost to each task
• Develop a budget

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A Sample Schedule
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Implement

• Execute the plan
• Track project progress versus the schedule
• Track project costs versus budget

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Complete

• Were the project goals achieved?
• Deliver the final product

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Teamwork

• ABET Criterion 3(d) students must demonstrate
  an ability to function on multi-disciplinary
  teams
• Definition - Cooperative effort by the members of
  a group or team to achieve a common goal (The
  American Heritage Dictionary of the English
  Language, Fourth Edition)

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Teamwork Skills

• Listening
• Questioning
• Persuading
• Respecting
• Helping
• Sharing
• Participating

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Stages of Team Development

• Forming
• Members are getting to know one another
• The most important task is understanding what
  each team member brings to the process, what they
  want from it and how they'll interact with each
  other
• Often felt as floundering team wants someone
  else to tell them what to do
• Discussing the design "problem" is often the
  vehicle for testing the teamwork process issues
• Team often accomplishes little concerning the
  project goals

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Stages of Team Development

• Storming
• Members are trying their ideas on each other to
  test how the group will work and whose ideas will
  dominate
• Members are more interested in their own ideas
  than in melding the ideas of all members
• They begin to realize the tasks that are ahead
  are different and more difficult than they
  previously imagined
• Little energy expended on the goal

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Stages of Team Development

• Norming
• Members have learned to trust each other and are
  moving on to the work of the project
• Members agree to perform specific tasks (perhaps
  on a rotating basis)
• Amount of work expected of each member is agreed
  on
• The team is now ready to start producing product
• The team is able to concentrate more on their
  work and start to make significant progress

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Stages of Team Development

• Performing
• The members are working effectively as a team
• The main focus is on the product
• Team members perform their roles readily - and
  perhaps change roles
• The team moves through the steps of the design
  process to a final presentation and/or report
• Much is accomplished in this stage

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Characteristics of Effective Teams

• Must have a clear goal
• Must have a results-driven structure
• Must have competent team members
• Must have a unified commitment
• Must have a collaborative climate
• Must have high standards that are understood by
  all
• Must receive external support and encouragement
• Must have principled leadership

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References

• Practical Engineering Design, Maja Bystrom
  Bruce Eisenstein, CRC Press, 2005
• http//www.ndt-ed.org/TeachingResources/ClassroomT
  ips/Teamwork.htm
• Wikipedia
• http//www.nwlink.com/7Edonclark/leader/leadtem2.
  html