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Project Charter Work Breakdown Structure WBS Project Schedule Project Budget Managing the Project Project Managers Role Managing Change
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Themes Requested
Alignment of projects to organizational mission, goals and objectives Resource conflicts; being spread too thin Organization: traditional vs a matrix, and how to get things done when you are not in control PM role; Supervisor of many, but manager of none. Managing smaller projects and keeping track of them Being organized when organization is not your4 greatest strength
Themes Requested
Establishment of PM Office? Projects that initiate new work & responsibilities Developing effective work teams with individuals who dislike one another Getting realistic timeframes attached to project initiatives Controlling changes to development
Project Management:
Official Definition
Project Management:
Definition
Unofficial
Project management is about creating an environment conducive to getting critical projects done!
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Project Planning and Implementation. by Abraham Shtub, Jonathan F. Bard, and Shlomo Globerson Copyright 1994 by Prentice-Hall, Inc.
The Planning Cycle brings together all aspects of planning into a coherent, unified process. By planning within this structure, you will help to ensure that your plans are fully considered, well focused, resilient, practical and cost-effective. You will also ensure that you learn from any mistakes you make, and feed this back into future planning and Decision Making. It is best to think of planning as a cycle, not a straight-through process
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Identify aim
Explore opportunities
Feedback
Close of Plan
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SWOT Analysis: Analysis of your strengths and weaknesses, and of the opportunities and threats that you face. Risk Analysis: This helps you to spot project risks, weaknesses in your organization or operation, and identify the risks to which you are exposed. From this you can plan to neutralize some risks. Understanding pressures for change:
Alternatively, other people (e.g. clients) may be pressing you to change the way you do things. Alternatively your environment may be changing, and you may need to anticipate or respond to this. Pressures may arise from changes in the economy, new legislation, competition, changes in people's attitudes, new technologies, 15 or changes in government.
do I want the future to be? benefit do I want to give to my customers? returns do I seek? standards am I aiming at? values do I and my organization believe in?
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it is time to decide which one to use If you have the time and resources available, then you might decide to evaluate all options, carrying out detailed planning, costing, risk assessment, etc. for each. Normally you will not have this luxury. Two useful tools for selecting the best option are Grid Analysis and Decision Trees. Grid Analysis helps you to decide between different options where you need to consider a number of different factors. Decision Trees help you to think through the likely outcomes of following different courses of action.
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By the time you start detailed planning, you should have a good picture of where you are, what you want to achieve and the range of options available to you. You may well have selected one of the options as the most likely to yield the best results. Detailed planning is the process of working out the most efficient and effective way of achieving the aim that you have defined. It is the process of determining who will do what, when, where, how and why, and at what cost. When drawing up the plan, techniques such as use of Gantt Charts and Critical Path Analysis can be immensely helpful in working out priorities, deadlines 19 and the allocation of resources.
A Good Plan
A good plan will: State the current situation Have a clear aim Use the resources available Detail the tasks to be carried out, whose responsibility they are, and their priorities and deadlines. Detail control mechanisms that will alert you to difficulties in achieving the plan. Identify risks, and plan for contingencies. This allows you to make a rapid and effective response to crises, perhaps at a time when you are at low ebb or are confused following a setback. Consider transitional arrangements - how will you 21 keep things going while you implement the plan?
PMI (Plus/Minus/Interesting): This is a good, simple technique for 'weighing the pros and cons' of a decision. It involves listing the plus points in the plan in one column, the minus points in a second column, and the implications and points of uncertainty of the plan in a third column. Each point can be allocated a positive or negative score.
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This is useful for confirming that the plan makes financial sense. This involves adding up all the costs involved with the plan, and comparing them with the expected benefits.
Similar to PMI, Force Field Analysis helps you to get a good overall view of all the forces for and against your plan. This allows you to see where you can make adjustments that will make the plan more likely to succeed
If your analysis shows that the plan either will not give sufficient benefit, then either return to an earlier stage in the planning cycle or abandon the process altogether.
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Once you have completed your plan and decided that it will work satisfactorily, it is time to implement it. Your plan will explain how! It should also detail the controls that you will use to monitor the execution of the plan. At this point is often worth carrying out an evaluation of the project to see whether there are any lessons that you can learn. This should include an evaluation of your project planning to see if this could be improved.
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Project Charter
What must be done?
What are the required resources? What are the constraints? What are the short and long term implications?
Why do it? When must it be done? Where must it be done? Who does what?
Who is behind the project? Who is funding the project? Who is performing the work of the project?
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Project Charter
Who What Where Why When
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Project Charter
Project Goal & Objective Sponsor Stakeholders Timeline Resources required Deliverables Decision making Assumptions Risks Business process changes Project manager Project team Budget Signatures
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What is the RISK of NOT doing the project? If you can write it such that there is no ambiguity there, you are most of the way there.
Assumptions
Opportunity to put it all out there
Challenges facing the project Implications Organizational history Political implications Impact to traditional power Requirements of decision-making Keep it objective
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Case Study
A tale of Two Projects
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Hit snooze button Hit snooze button again Get outa bed Avoid dog Go to bathroom
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RFP Development
Vendor Selection
Staff Training
Hardware Implementation
Needs Assessment
Research Vendors
Schedule Installation
Needs Analysis
Research Sites
Schedule Training
Prepare Site
Write RFP
Train
Review Proposals
Configure System
Rank Proposals
Install System
Recommendation
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RFP Development
Vendor Selection
Staff Training
Hardware Implementation
Assess Needs
Research Vendors
Schedule Installation
Analyze Needs
Research Sites
Schedule Training
Prepare Site
Write RFP
Train Sysadmins
Review Proposals
Configure System
Rank Proposals
Install System
Make Recommendations
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Many tools available Microsoft Project Many more specialized software www.dotproject.net Excel Most important Monitor tasks Gantt views of project
one page views for executives rollout and more complex views for work teams
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Project Schedule
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Task A. High level analysis B. Selection of hardware platform C. Installation and commissioning of hardware D. Detailed analysis of core modules
Week 1
2 weeks
Sequential
Week 3
2 weeks
Sequential
Week 3
2 weeks
Sequential
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1 analyst for the first 5 weeks. 1 programmer for 5 weeks starting week 4. 1 programmer/QA expert for 3 weeks starting week 6. Note: Activities L and M have been moved back a week. This does not affect the critical path, but it does mean that a single programming/QA resource can carry out all three of activities K, L and M.
Analysis, development and testing of supporting modules are essential activities that must be completed on time. Hardware installation and commissioning is not timecritical as long as it is completed before the Core Module
Training starts.
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Drawing CPA
Step 1. List all activities in the plan as previous
Task A. High level analysis B. Selection of hardware platform C. Installation and commissioning of hardware D. Detailed analysis of core modules Earliest start Week 0 Week 1 Week 1.2 Length 1 week 1 day 2 weeks Type Sequential Sequential Parallel A B Dependent on...
Week 1
2 weeks
Sequential
Week 3
2 weeks
Sequential
Week 3
2 weeks
Sequential
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Drawing CPA
Step 2.
Circles show events within the project, such as the start and finish of tasks. The number shown in the left hand half of the circle allows you to identify each one easily. Circles are sometimes known as nodes. An arrow running between two event circles shows the activity needed to complete that task. A description of the task is written underneath the arrow. The length of the task is shown above it. By convention, all arrows run left to right. Arrows are also sometimes called arcs.
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Drawing CPA
Within Critical Path Analysis, we refer to activities by the numbers in the circles at each end. For example, the task 'Core Module Analysis' would be called activity 2 to 3. 'Select Hardware' would be activity 2 to 9. Activities are not drawn to scale. In the diagram above, activities are 1 week long, 2 weeks long, and 1 day long. Arrows in this case are all the same length. In the example above, you can see a second number in the top, right hand quadrant
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Drawing CPA
In the example above, you can see a second number in the top, right hand quadrant of each circle. This shows the earliest start time for the following activity. It is conventional to start at 0. Here units are whole weeks
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Drawing CPA
Where one activity cannot start until another has been completed, we start the arrow for the dependent activity at the completion event circle of the previous activity. Here the activities of 'Select Hardware' and 'Core Module Analysis' cannot be started until 'High Level Analysis has been completed.
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Drawing CPA
Here activity 6 to 7 cannot start until the other four activities (11 to 6, 5 to 6, 4 to 6, and 8 to 6) have been completed.
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Project Budget
One of the more challenging aspects of PM If you are not a finance person, there are several things you can do. Find someone to be on your team, or play a role, of budget person Think about taking some courses in budgeting Get close to CIO and CFO If you can gain practice and expertise in budget forecasting, already your star will rise .so few people do! Many of you who came up through technical ranks tend to shrug this off. This is the work of others. You break out in hives at 51 the mere thought of finance and budget.
Project Budget
Direct Costs Hardware Software Contractor fees Estimated hours Hourly Rates per contractor Various contractor rates Training Fanfare Other
Indirect Costs
TOTALS
Your peoples time and effort Estimated time on project Estimated cost based on hourly rate Others time and effort Opportunity cost What projects or tasks are NOT going to get done in order to get this project 52 done?
Triple Constraint
o Identify all your constraints o Develop these in the Project Charter o Add a fourth constraintRISK o ARE some constraints more important than others - Document
Risk?
Time
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Communicate
Define Plan Monitor Complete
Communicate
Re-Plan
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Who could possibly do all this? Actually, this IS an impossible role! But the PM doesnt need to do it alls/he needs to see that it gets done! Surround yourself with those people with these skills
Traditional Organization
President
VP Academics
VP Student Affairs
VP Finance
VP Development
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Matrix Organization
Offices Systems
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MIS x x
PR
Web x
Controller
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People Problems
2/3 of project problems are people related You will find many operational leaders demonstrate a just do-it mentality. While that may be effective in some environments, this is NOT effective in managing change. There will always be conflict over goals and scope, resources and between departments You are likely to find a lack of understanding basic project management methods Some people will never get along
Dont be scared by these findings. Understand them. There are methods you can employ to reduce their occurrence. Lets move 62 on to the project team and how change may play out there.
From ESI International:Top Ten Reminders for New Project Managers www.esiintl.com/public/publications/html/20050801HorizonsArticle2.asp
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Here are a few guidelines for getting started down the right path on your first project management gig. 1. Understand the project scope and stakeholder expectations at the onset of the program 2. Get yourself a mentor as quickly as possible 3. Recognize that relationships will change 4. Manage change rigorously 5. Know the people, not just the resources 6. You are what you measure 7. Talk to stakeholders every day 8. Talk to staff every day 9. Lead by example 10. Have fun.
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Team Development
Select the right players Complementary skill sets Blend of technical and business Align with WBS Stages of Team Development Formin Stormin Normin Performin
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Formin
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Some groups can get there quickly, but it may not be sustainable. DURATION of group is a big factor
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Consultants
Objective, skilled consultants can provide a team foundation Consultants can address dicey organizational issues For large projects, this approach is vital.
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Meeting Management
Develop Ground Rules early
Assign facilitator Assign reporter and reporting structure Start and end times Frequency of meetings Focus of meetings
Distinguish between facilitator and leader Talk about the perpetually latecomer to meetings the quiet person and the talker
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Agree to debate issues, not people Civility required Confidentiality? Reporting out What is going to be reported What isnt Agree to bring all issues to the table
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ask if there are some other perspectives from other team members.
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them commit. Give them simple alternatives and ask them to decide.
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Solution: address
the behavior immediately and let them know that comments like that are unacceptable based on team norms.
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their positive outlook, but they need to explore options more thoroughly if they want to gain credibility with the group.
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that issues are dealt with in team meetings and this behavior is not acceptable. When it is uncovered, PM addresses it in the meeting or, if necessary, in private
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development and make it known it is not acceptable. Get all administrators and supervisors to suppress the behavior if it occurs. PM should call it when its seen and the 82 Project Sponsor should nip it in bud.
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Sub Teams
Examples
Execs will make all decisions on scope, schedule, personnel changes and budget Project Mgt. team will make all decisions on team assignments, work allocations and management of vendors. Training team will make decisions about training requirements and schedules of sessions. 84
Documentation
Decision Making
Clarify who makes what decisions Establish structure for rapid decision making Communicate decisions Log/track decisions for future reference While everyone may not agree with all decisions, its important that team members agree to support the decisions Get buy-in from sponsor and administrators preventing end around. 85
Consensus may be desired, but is not required Lack of consensus does not mean no decision Projects force decisions by leaders
Communication Plan
Define stakeholders Develop communication plan
Identify
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organization? What are the pressing issues of the hour? What will be the pressing issues of tomorrow? How do you help others satisfy their needs? What is the stake of others in your project?
Identify a mentor
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Change in current practices Developing new practices Getting people to change their behaviors
How they do their work How they work together How they get the work of the project done Avoidance of paving the cow paths
PM is a mindset, a discipline, that can help your organization increase effectiveness and put order to chaos
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PM works when there is buy-in for the methods and process It does not work when
methods by executives end arounds are tolerated influential players operate project business outside the project decisions made by project teams are not supported charters, schedules and other work products of 89 the team are not supported
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