Project management in R

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Project management in RD

• Kristian Widén, PhD

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Kristian Widén, PhD

• I am 41 years young
• I live in Kävlinge, outside Lund
• Masters in Civil Engineering, PhD in Construction
  Management, Innovations difusion in the
  construction sector.
• I run a company and I am President in SFK

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The scope of the course

• Two courses
• General (4.5 credits)
• Basic knowledge on RD projects and project
  management in RD
• Specific (4.5 credits)
• Report on a selected topic connected to project
  management in RD

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Course structure

• The course follow the general structure of PMBoK
• At the end of the course we intend to have some
  variuos guest lectures giving you example of how
  it works in practice

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Course structure (cd)

• Litterature
• You should each choose a project management text
  book
• I recommend to get PMBoK
• Any additional llitterature will be handed out

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Course structure cd)

• Assignments
• Before each lecture you should write one page on
  the up-coming topic based on your own litterature
• Discuss, in groups, the approach to PM related to
  RD and present
• You should right a short summary of your
  litterature

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What is a project?
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What is a project?

• One defintion is
• A project is a temporary endeavour undertaken to
  create a unique product, service, or result.

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What is a project?

• Characteristics
• Managed by objectives
• Temporary
• Unique
• Progressive elaboration

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Project/Line
Project Line
Objectives Clear Comprehensive, distant
Personnel Selected team All
Uncertainty High Low
Time Deadline Eternity
Managers Authority Informal Formal
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Project examples

• Develop a new product or service
• Implementing an organsiational change
• Building a facility
• Carry out a political campaign

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Types of projects

• External
• On behalf of someone else
• Internal
• Internal customer

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Academic projects

• Research projects
• PhD projects

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Development projects

• New product
• New process
• New service

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What is project management?

• ?

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What is project management?

• One definition is
• Project management is the application of
  knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to
  project activities to meet project requirements.

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What is project management?

• Managing a project includes
• Identifying requirements
• Establishing clear and achievable objectives
• Balansing the competing demands for quality,
  scope, time and cost
• Adapting apting the specifications, plans, and
  approach to the different concerns and
  expectations of the variuos stakeholders

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History of Projet management

• Modern project management started with the
  Manhattan project
• Some tools
• Gantt - chart, 1917, developed by Henry Gantt
• PERT - chart 1958, developed by US Navy
• PM Software, 1970-talet, developed by the
  american army and the construction sector
• In 1990s, Project management is beginning to be
  used more generally.

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The knowledge areas of PM

• Integration
• Scope
• Time
• Cost
• Quality
• Human resources
• Project Communications
• Risk
• Procurement

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Project structure
Main Project
Sub project
Sub project

• Sub project

Plan, Do, Check, Act
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Related areas

• Program and program management
• Portfolio and portfolio management

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Project phases

• Initial
• Idea
• Feasability study
• Intermidiate
• Plan
• Baseline
• Progress
• Acceptance
• Final
• Handover

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Project management process groups

• Initiating
• Planning
• Executing
• Monitoring and Controlling
• Closing

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Organisations

• Functional/Line organisation
• Projecized Organisation
• Matrix organisation (Weak, Balanced, Strong)

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Project relations

• Obstacles
• Cost
• Confidentiality
• Diference in deadlines
• Compeition of resource
• Dependence of non-resulting project/closing
  project
• Information flows
• Different goals/interests
• Exisiting platforms/mindsets
• Conecting theories with data/Real world

• Enablers
• Right qualified people in the project
• Good colaboration
• Finance
• Share knowledge
• Flexibility among sub-projects
• Time-management
• Perspectives from others
• Needs from outside academia
• Data collection in companies
• Potential for long time focus
• Same field experience

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