Chapter 0 Course Info Chapter 1 Introduction

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Chapter 0 Course Info Chapter 1 - Introduction

• Project Management Definition, Course Information

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Definition Project

• A complex, nonroutine, one-time effort limited
  by time, budget, resources, and performance
  specifications designed to meet customer needs.
• Foster

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Definition of Management?

• Activities involved in
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• Directed to achieving organization goals

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Definition Management

• Activities involved in
• Planning
• Organizing
• Leading
• Controlling
• Other terms staffing, directing, etc.
• Directed to achieving organization goals

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Definition Project Management

• The value-added activities of planning,
  organizing, leading, and controlling involved in
  a complex, nonroutine, one-time effort limited by
  time, budget, resources, and performance
  specifications designed to meet customer needs.
  

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Project Characteristics

• Definite beginning
• Definite end
• Long duration (often months or years)
• Very low product quantity
• Very high variety of tasks
• Multiple tasks often being performed concurrently

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Organizational Scope of PM

• Applies to all organizations
• Manufacturing
• Service (banks, insurance, health care)
• Consulting
• Wholesale retail
• Schools
• Religious institutions and charities
• Political parties, trade groups, unions
• Etc., etc., etc.

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Course syllabus 1(green sheet)

• Contact information
• Office BT 556
• Do not leave assignments under door!
• Office hours
• most Mon, Wed 900 AM 930 AM and
• Mon, Thu 300 545 PM, or by appointment
• Phone [phone]
• E-mail bentley_d_at_cob.sjsu.edu

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Course syllabus 2(green sheet)

• Web (my home page)
• http//www.cob.sjsu.edu/bentley_d/
• Text (required)
• Gray, Clifford F., and Larson, Erik W. Project
  Management the Management Process, 4th Edition,
  2008, McGraw-Hill Irwin

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Course syllabus 3(green sheet)

• Assignments Practice problems (not graded)
• Class participation Important!
• Term project - TBD
• Exams - (1 midterm, final exam)
• Grading
• Schedule text reading assignments

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Ethical Behavior
? Unless specifically permitted by the
instructor, all work is to be done by the
individual student, not in pairs or groups. ?
All quotations, statements of fact, theories,
principles, etc. should be referenced using
notes. Failure to do so represents plagiarism.
? Copying of someone elses case work or
plagiarizing work will result in a zero score.
Repetition will result in a failing course grade.

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Course administration 1

• Introductions (me)
• Education
• Experience
• Goals
• Expectations
• Commitment
• Participation
• Communications

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Course administration 2

• Policies and courtesy rules
• Ethical issues (plagiarism and cheating)
• Food and drinks
• Cell phones off or on silent
• One person talks at a time
• Use of computers in class
• Attendance
• Exam rules

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Course administration - 3

• Emergency instructions
• Lecture overheads
• Red text changes after posting
• Roll/registration
• Group introductions (you)
• Major
• Work experience
• Units and work hours
• Expectations

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Information Sources?

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• Other?

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Information Sources

• S.J. Mercury
• S.F. Chronicle
• Business Journal
• Wall Street Journal
• Forbes
• Fortune
• Business Week
• Information Week

• Harvard Business Review
• Professional association journals
• Trade publications
• USA Today
• Internet
• Other?

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Professional Organizations

• APICS (The Association for Operations
  Management)
• ASQ formerly ASQC (American Society for
  Quality)
• ISM formerly NAPA, NAPM (Institute for Supply
  Management)
• IIE (Institute of Industrial Engineers)
• PMI (The Project Management Institute)
• POMS (The Production and Operations Management
  Society)
• INFORMS (The Institute for Operations Research
  and the Management Sciences)
• SAM (Society for the Advancement of Management)
• SJSU student chapter some semesters

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Course Organization - 1

• Part 1 Introduction and Planning
• Overview, definition Chapter 1
• Strategy Chapter 2
• Structure and culture Chapter 3
• Project definition Chapter 4
• Time and cost estimation Chapter 5
• Developing the plan Chapter 6
• Risk Management Chapter 7
• Scheduling Chapter 8

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Course Organization - 2

• Part 2 Execution Management
• Duration reduction Chapter 9
• Project manager qualities Chapter 10
• Managing teams Chapter 11
• Outsourcing Chapter 12
• Performance measurement Chapter 13
• Audit and closure Chapter 14
• International projects Chapter 15
• Oversight Chapter 16

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Definition Project Management

• The value-added activities of planning,
  organizing, leading, and controlling involved in
  a complex, nonroutine, one-time effort limited by
  time, budget, resources, and performance
  specifications designed to meet customer needs.
  

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Recent SJSU Project Examples

• Martin Luther King, Jr. Library
• Campus Village
• WASC accreditation (University)
• AACSB accreditation (COB)
• University President selection
• College of Business Dean selection
• PeopleSoft software implementation
• Rebuilding the football program

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Programs vs. Projects

• Program series of coordinated, related, multiple
  projects that continue over an extended time and
  are intended to achieve a goal.
• A higher-level group of projects targeted at a
  common goal.
• Example space shuttle program consists of
  multiple projects

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Routine Work vs. Projects
(Gray)

• Routine, Repetitive Work
• Taking class notes
• Daily entering sales receipts into the accounting
  ledger
• Responding to a supply-chain request
• Practicing scales on the piano
• Routine manufacture of an Apple iPod
• Attaching tags on a manufactured product

• Projects
• Writing a term paper
• Setting up a sales kiosk for a professional
  accounting meeting
• Developing a supply-chain information system
• Writing a new piano piece
• Designing an iPod that is approximately 2 X 4
  inches, interfaces with PC, and stores 10,000
  songs
• Wire-tag projects for GE and Wal-Mart

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Project Life Cycle
(Gray)
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Current Issues

• Life cycle compression (product and project)
• Globalization
• Knowledge and communication explosion
• Cost containment and downsizing
• Customer demand
• Business complexity

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Integrated Projects

• Tie together the overall strategies of the firm
• Prioritize selection of projects by their
  contribution to the firm
• Integrate throughout the project life cycle
• Match project planning and controls with
  organizational culture to make appropriate
  adjustments in support of project endeavors

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Integration (Gray)
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Project Management Overview
(Gray)