Geo. Brown. Bus. 1040. Project management - Week 2

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Geo. Brown. Bus. 1040. Project management -
Week 2

• Instructor Fred Pentney

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Project success definition

• On time
• On budget
• High quality-functionality and performance
• Need to maintain equilibrium
• Verzuh. P 17-18.

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Project success-characteristics

• Goals- agreement from Cust, team, mgt.
• Plan indicating path and responsibilities
• Effective communication
• Scope controlled
• Management support
• Verzuh. P 7-8

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P.Mgt. Functions-interactive

• Definition. Purpose, goals and constraints
• these become the rules
• Planning. Risk management, estimates, schedules
• Controls. Continuous feedback to control scope
  creep, stay on schedule, maintain plan, satisfy
  stakeholders.
• Verzuh P. 19-21

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Project manager-

• Knows project management
• Knows business management
• Technical understanding-not expertise.
• Strong leadership qualities Verzuh. P. 30
• Verzuh. P. 15-17

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Project life cycle

• Define
• Plan
• Execute
• Close out
• Verzuh. P. 22-24

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Types of organization

• Function driven
• Matrix
• Project oriented
• Program driven-related projects
• Product oriented

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Defining

• Why are we doing this project
• What are we going to do??
• How are we going to do it?
• Who is responsible for what?
• Who has authority?
• Who will we communicate with and how?
• The above will generate the rules for the project

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Stakeholders.

• 5 different roles(can play one or more).
• Customer-the person/party who pays
• Sponsor-person ultimately responsible
• Project Manager-who leads
• Project team-
• Functional management
• P.39-49 Verzuh

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Rules come from the Statement of Work

• Create a charter
• Create a Statement of Work
• Create a Responsibility matrix
• Create a communication

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Review today
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Next week.