CPETECET 470 Technology ProjectManagement, FAll 2005

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CPET/ECET 470 Technology ProjectManagement, FAll
2005

• Mike Newell - Instructor
• Mrnewell_at_verizon.net
• [phone]

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Technical Project Managment

• How my 4 weeks are structured
• Class room meetings twice weekly
• Lecture
• Text book reading and assignment
• Project simulation activities
• What you will get out of this course
• Part project management, part work prep
• Benefit of multiple instructors
• Qualitative nature and grading
• Similarities to work environment

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Project Characteristics

• Have a specific objective (which may be unique or
  one-of-a-kind) to be completed within certain
  specifications
• Have defined start and end dates
• Have funding limits (if applicable)
• Consume human and nonhuman resources (i.e.,
  money, people, equipment)
• Be multifunctional (cut across several functional
  lines)

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Project Management

• Project Planning
• Definition of work requirements
• Definition of quantity and quality of work
• Definition of resources needed
• Project monitoring
• Tracking progress
• Comparing actual outcome to predicted outcome
• Analyzing impact
• Making adjustments

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• MATURITY IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT IS LIKE A THREE -
  LEGGED STOOL.
• THE LEGS REPRESENT THE
• Project Manager
• Line Manager(s)
• Executive Management (i.e... Project Sponsor)
• Maturity cannot exist without stability

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Project Management
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Classical Management

• Planning
• Organizing
• Staffing
• Controlling
• Directing

Which of the above is Usually NOT performed by
the project manager?
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Successful Culture

• A good daily working relationship between the
  project manager and those line managers who
  directly assign resources to projects
• The ability of functional employees to report
  vertically to their line manager at the same time
  they report horizontally to one or more project
  managers

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Integration Management
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Resources

• Capital
• Materials
• Equipment
• Facilities
• Information
• Personnel

Products Services Profits
Inputs
Outputs
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Most projects also have a project sponsor which
may or may not reside at the executive levels of
management.
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The Project Sponsor Interface
Priority Projects
Maintenance Projects
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Project Necessities

• Complete task definitions
• Resource requirement definitions (and possibly
  skill levels needed)
• Major timetable milestones
• Definition of end-item quality and reliability
  requirements
• The basis for performance measurement

Usually fluid
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Promises Made???

• Promotion
• Grade
• Salary
• Bonus
• Overtime
• Responsibility
• Future work assignments

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Mil/Aero high level process

• Business Development (BD)
• Marketing
• Capture teams

Newell's Focus
System Engineering Product Development Prototype L
imited Rate Prod. (LRIP) Testing/Qualification
Full Rate Production
Logistics Training Field support
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Product Development process
Hardware realization
Hardware Functional Test
Virtual Design
Subsystem Product Level Test and Integration
Release to Production
Systems Design
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Assignments

• Reading Project Management by Kerzner 8th
  edition. 1.1-1.9 1.17 2.6, 2.12-2.16 all of
  chpt. 7. and Mayer Mfg. case study on page 297
  and 298.
• Questions due 8/31 Submit responses in MSWord
  via e-mail. 1-1, 1-2, 1-13, 2-11.
• Be prepared to participate in a class discussion
  regarding the Mayer Mfg. case on 8/29/05.