In this session you will learn:
Project Execution Process
Acquire Project Team
Develop Project Team
Manage Project Team
Communications Manage Communications
Procurement Conduct Procurement
Stakeholder Manage Stakeholders Engagement
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Agenda
â˘Project Execution Process
â˘Project Execution - Acquire Project Team
â˘Project Execution - Develop Project Team
â˘Project Execution - Manage Project Team
â˘Communications Manage Communications
â˘Procurement Conduct Procurement
â˘Stakeholder Manage
â˘Stakeholders Engagement
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The Execution Processes
⢠Direct & Manage Project Execution
⢠Perform Quality Assurance
⢠Acquire Project Team
⢠Develop Project Team
⢠Manage Project Team
⢠Manage Communications
⢠Conduct Procurement
⢠Manage Stakeholder Engagement
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Direct & Manage ProjectExecution
⢠The process of performing the work defined in the project
management plan to achieve project objectives.
⢠Activities Involved:-
ď§ Performing activities to accomplish project requirements.
ď§ Creating project deliverables.
ď§ Staffing, training and managing the team members assigned to the
project.
ď§ Obtaining, managing, and using resources including
material, tools, equipment, and facilities.
ď§ Implementing the planned methods and standard .
ď§ Establishing and managing project communication channels, both
external and internal to the project team.
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Direct & manage ProjectExecution
ď§ Generating project data, such as cost, schedule, technical and
quality
progress, and status to facilitate forecasting.
ď§ Issuing change requests and adapting approved changes into the
projectâs scope, plans and environment.
ď§ Managing risks and implementing risk response activities.
ď§ Managing sellers and suppliers; and
ď§ Collecting & documenting lessons learned, and implementing
approved process improvement activities.
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Deliverables
⢠Any unique and verifiable product, result, or capability to perform a
service that is identified in the project management planning
documentation, and must be produced and provided to complete the
project.
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Perform Quality Assurance
⢠The process of auditing the quality requirements and the results from
quality control measurements to ensure appropriate quality
standards and operational definitions are used.
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Quality Audits
⢠A structured, independent review to determine whether project
activities comply with organizational and project policies, processes,
and procedures.
⢠Can be scheduled or random.
⢠Can be conducted by external or internal auditors.
⢠Result in:
ď§ Reduced cost of quality.
ď§ Increase in sponsor or customer acceptance.
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Objectives of Quality Audits
⢠Identify all the good/ best practices being implemented.
⢠Identify all the gaps/ shortcomings.
⢠Share the good practices introduced or implemented in similar
projects in the organization and/ or industry.
⢠Proactively offer assistance in a positive manner to improve
implementation of processes to help the team raise productivity.
⢠Highlight contributions of each audit in the lessons learned repository
of the organization.
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Inputs/Outputs
⢠Process Analysis
ď§ Follows steps outlined in the process improvement plan to identify
needed improvements.
⢠Organizational Process Assets Updates
ď§ Quality Standards.
ď§ Processes.
⢠Project Management Plan Updates
ď§ Quality management plan.
ď§ Schedule management plan.
ď§ Cost management plan.
⢠Project Document Updates
ď§ Quality audits reports.
ď§ Training plans.
ď§ Process documentation.
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Acquire Project Team
⢠The process of confirming human resources availability and obtaining
the team necessary to complete project assignments.
⢠The project management team may or may not have direct control
over team members selection because of:
ď§ Collective bargaining agreements.
ď§ Use of subcontractor personnel.
ď§ Matrix project environment.
ď§ Internal or external reporting relationships.
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Pre-assignment
⢠When project team members are known in advance.
⢠If the project is a result of:
ď§ Specific people being promised as part of a proposal.
ď§ The project is dependent on the expertise of particular persons.
ď§ Some staff assignments are defined within the project charter.
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Negotiation & Acquisition
⢠Negotiating with:
ď§ Functional managers.
ď§ Other project management teams within the organization.
ď§ External organizations, vendors, suppliers, contractorsâŚetc.
⢠Acquisition
ď§ When the needed resources are not available in-house.
ď§ Can involve hiring individual consultants or subcontracting work to another
organization.
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Virtual Teams
⢠Groups of people with a shared goal who fulfill their roles with little or
no time
spent meeting face-to-face.
⢠The ease of communication through electronic means made virtual
teams more feasible.
⢠Communication planning becomes increasingly important in virtual
team
environment.
⢠Virtual teams make it possible to:
ď§ Form teams of people from the same organization who live in
widespread geographic areas.
ď§ Add expertise that canât exist at the same location.
ď§ Incorporate employees who work from home.
ď§ Allow team members who work different shifts or hours to
participate.
ď§ Include people with mobility limitations or disabilities.
ď§ Reduce travel expenses.
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Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis
⢠Criteria is developed and used to rate or score potential team members
⢠Examples Include
⢠âAvailability
⢠âCost
⢠âExperience
⢠âAbility
⢠âKnowledge
⢠âSkills
⢠âAttitude
⢠âInternational Factors
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Develop Project Team
⢠The process of improving competencies, team interaction, and the
overall
team environment to enhance project performance.
⢠Project managers should create an environment that facilitates
teamwork.
⢠Developing project teams include:
ď§ Improving skills of team members
ď§ Improving feelings of trust & cohesiveness
ď§ Creating a dynamic and cohesive team culture to improve both
individual and team
productivity, team spirit and cooperation
⢠Examples include assisting one another, and communicate in ways that
fit individual preference.
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Develop Project Team
⢠The process of improving competencies, team interaction, and the
overall
team environment to enhance project performance.
⢠Project managers should create an environment that facilitates
teamwork.
⢠Developing project teams include:
ď§ Improving skills of team members
ď§ Improving feelings of trust & cohesiveness
ď§ Creating a dynamic and cohesive team culture to improve both
individual and team
productivity, team spirit and cooperation
⢠Examples include assisting one another, and communicate in ways that
fit individual preference.
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Tools & Techniques
⢠Interpersonal Skills
ď§ Sometime known as âSoft Skillsâ
Include:
ď§ Empathy.
ď§ Influence.
ď§ Creativity.
ď§ Group facilitation.
⢠Training
⢠Can be:
ď§ Formal
ď§ Informal
⢠Training methods:
ď§ Classroom.
ď§ Online.
ď§ Computer-based.
ď§ On the job
ď§ Coaching
ď§ Mentoring.
⢠Team Building Activities
ď§ Can vary from a five-minute agenda
item to an off-site, professionally
facilitated experience to improve
interpersonal relationships.
ď§ The objective is to help individual
team members to work together
effectively.
ď§ Particularly valuable when team
members work from different
locations.
ď§ Informal communication and
activities can help in building trust
and establishing good working
relationships.
⢠Team development Stages
ď§ Forming.
ď§ Storming.
ď§ Norming.
ď§ Performing.
ď§ Adjourning.
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Tools & Techniques
⢠Forming
ď§ The team meets and learns about the project and what their formal
roles and responsibilities
are.
ď§ Team members tend to be independent and open in this phase.
ď§ Team members are usually on their best behavior but very focused on
themselves.
ď§ In this stage the members of the team get to know one another,
exchange some personal information, and make new friends.
⢠Storming
ď§ Team begins to address the project work, technical decisions,
and the project management approach.
ď§ If team members are not collaborative and open to differing ideas and
perspectives the
environment can become destructive.
ď§ In some cases, the team never leaves this stage.
ď§ The role of project manager is crucial in this stage. Tolerance and
patience will help in passing through it successfully.
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Tools & Techniques
⢠Norming
ď§ Team members begin to work together and adjust work habits and
behaviors to support the team.
ď§ Team begins to trust each other.
ď§ Motivation increases as the team gets more acquainted with the
project.
ď§ As team members get to know each other better, their views of each
other
begin to change
⢠Performing
ď§ Teams should try to reach this stage as quickly as possible.
ď§ Teams that reach this stage function as a well-organized unit.
ď§ Teams at this stage are able to function as a unit as they find ways to
get the
job done smoothly and effectively without inappropriate conflict or
the need for external supervision.
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Tools & Techniques
⢠Adjourning
ď§ The team completes the work and move on from the project.
ď§ Mourning over the dissolving of the team relationship, and begin
preparing for change in individual work requirements.
⢠Co-location
ď§ Involves placing many of the team members in one physical location.
ď§ Can be temporary in some cases.
ď§ Can be used in conjunction with virtual teams.
ď§ Enhances ability to perform as a team.
ď§ War rooms.
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Tools & Techniques
⢠Ground Rules
ď§ Establishing clear expectations regarding acceptable and
unacceptable behavior.
ď§ Examples include:
ď§ How team members should resolve conflicts.
ď§ Is interruption in meetings allowed or not.
ď§ Coming late to meetings.
ď§ Phone calls.
ď§ Smoking.
ď§ Whoâs allowed to talk to senior management.
ď§ Whoâs authorized to give directions to vendors/
subcontractors.
ď§ Work times.
ď§ Codes of dress.
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Tools & Techniques
⢠Team performance Assessments
ď§ Formal or informal
ď§ Conducted by the project management team
ď§ The performance of successful team is measured according to
agreed upon
project objectives
ď§ Evaluation indicators include:
ď§ Improvements in skills
ď§ Improvements in competencies
ď§ Reduced staff turn over rate
ď§ Increased team cohesiveness
ď§ Should trigger actions such as training, changes, recommendations,
etc..
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Manage Project Team
⢠The process of tracking team performance, providing feedback,
resolving issues, and managing changes to optimize project
performance.
⢠The project management team:
ď§ Observes team performance.
ď§ Manages conflict.
ď§ Resolves issues.
ď§ Appraises team performance.
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Tools & Techniques
⢠Observation & Conversation
ď§ Used to stay in touch with the work and attitudes of project team
members.
ď§ Project management team monitors progress towards:
ďProject deliverables.
ďAccomplishments.
ďInterpersonal issues.
⢠Project Performance Appraisals
ď§ Can be formal or informal depending on the length of the project,
organizational policy, project complexity and the amount and
quality of regular communication.
ď§ Objectives include:
ďClarification of roles and responsibilities.
ďConstructive feedback to team members.
ďDiscovery of unknown or unresolved issues.
ďDevelopment of individual training plans.
ďEstablishment of specific goals for future time periods.
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Tools & Techniques-Conflict Management
⢠Conflict Management
ďShould conflict be avoided?
⢠Conflicts can be beneficial (an opportunities for improvement)
⢠Conflicts is an inevitable consequence of organizational interactions.
⢠Conflicts in the team are caused due to the following reasons in
decreasing order of
occurrences.
⢠1.Schedules
⢠2.Project priorities
⢠3.Resources
⢠4.Technical opinions
⢠The most common cause of conflicts in projects are issues related to
schedules (not
personality differences).
⢠Conflict is best resolved by those involved in the conflict.
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Sources & Facts about Conflict inprojects
⢠Sources
⢠Scarcity of resources.
⢠Scheduling priorities.
⢠Personalities.
⢠Limited power of project manager.
⢠Facts about Conflict
⢠Natural and forces search for
alternatives.
⢠Is a team issue.
⢠Openness resolves conflict.
⢠Should focus on issues, not
personalities.
⢠Should focus on the present, not the
past.
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Tools & Techniques
⢠How Can Conflict Be Minimized?
⢠Communication.
⢠Planning
⢠Ground rules.
⢠Identification of root causes and
resolving them.
⢠Involving team members in resolution.
⢠Conflict Resolution Techniques
⢠Withdrawing/Avoiding.
⢠Smoothing/ Accommodating.
⢠Compromising.
⢠Forcing.
⢠Collaborating.
⢠Confronting/ problem solving.
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Withdrawing/ Avoiding
ď§ Retreating from an actual or potential conflict situation.
ď§ A passive, stop-gap way of handling conflict.
ď§ Appropriate when a âcooling-offâ period is needed, and when the
other party is unassertive and uncooperative.
ď§ A lose-lose technique
ď§ Generally fails to solve the problem.
ď§ Should not be used when the conflict deals with an issue that is of
immediate concern or is important to the successful completion of
the project.
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Smoothing/ Accommodating
⢠Emphasizing areas of agreement rather than areas of difference.
⢠An appeasing approach.
⢠Appropriate to keep harmony and avoid outwardly conflictive
situations.
⢠Fails to provide permanent long-term solution to the underlying
conflict.
⢠Generally, conflict reappears in a different form.
⢠A lose-lose technique
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Compromising
ď§ Searching for a solution that bring some degree of satisfaction to all
parties.
ď§ Is primarily âbargainingâ, receiving something in exchange for
something else.
ď§ Appropriate when reached and accepted as a just solution by both
parties involved in conflict.
ď§ Usually provides acceptable solutions.
ď§ Sometimes, important aspects of the project canât be
compromised to achieve personal objectives.
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Forcing
ď§ Pushing oneâs view at the expense of others.
ď§ A win-lose situation.
ď§ Used when there is no common ground for bargaining or
negotiation.
ď§ Also used when both parties are uncooperative and strong-willed.
ď§ Appropriate when time is of essence, and issue is vital for the well-
being of project.
ď§ Usually takes less time than other techniques, but leaves hard
feelings.
ď§ Conflict resolved by forcing may develop again and haunt the
enforcer.
ď§ Should be used only as a last resort.
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Collaborating
ď§ Incorporating multiple view points and insights from differing
perspectives.
ď§ Leads to consensus and commitment.
ď§ Used when the situation is too important to be compromised.
ď§ Not very effective when more than a few players are involved and
their
viewpoints are mutually exclusive.
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Confronting/ Problem Solving
⢠Treating conflict as a problem to be solved by examining
alternatives.
⢠Requires a give-and-take attitude and open dialogue.
⢠Involves pinpointing the issue and resolving it objectively by
defining the problem, gathering necessary information,
generating and analyzing alternatives, and selecting the best
alternative.
⢠Requires open dialogue between participants, who must be
mature, understanding, and competent-both technically and
managerially.
⢠Takes longer than other techniques.
⢠Provides ultimate solutions.
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Problem Solving
⢠The important thing to realize about problems is if they are not solved
completely, they just return again and again.
⢠The process of problem solving has these steps
1. Define the cause of the problem
2. Analyze the problem
3. Identify solution
4. Implement a decision
5. Review the decision, and confirm that the problem is solved.
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Project Manager Power
⢠A Project Manager may yield authority over the project team in one of the
following ways
⢠âFormal (Legitimate) -Power due to Project Managers position
⢠âRewardâPower stems from giving rewards.
⢠âPenalty (Coercive) âPower due to afraid of the power the Project Manager holds.
⢠âExpert (Technical)âComes from being technical or project management expert.
⢠âReferentâPower of charisma and fame. Make another person liking/respecting
the Project Manager.
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Management & Leadership Style
⢠Autocratic
âTop down approach. The manager has power to do whatever she/he wants.
âSometime appropriate when decisions must be made for emergency situation
or time pressure.
⢠Democratic/Participative
âEncouraging team participation in the decision making process
âBest used for people whose behavior fit with theory Y
⢠Laissez-faire -a French term means âleave aloneâ
âThe manager is not directly involve in the work of the team.
âEffective for highly skilled team
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Project Manager Interpersonal Skills
⢠Leadership
⢠Team building
⢠Motivation
⢠Communicating
⢠Influencing
⢠Decision Making
⢠Political and cultural awareness
⢠Negotiation
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Manage Communications
⢠The process of making relevant information available to
project
stakeholders as planned.
⢠Implementing the âCommunications Management Planâ
⢠Responding to unexpected requests for Information
⢠Effective information distribution includes:
ď§ Sender-receiver modules.
ď§ Choice of media.
ď§ Writing style.
ď§ Meeting management techniques.
ď§ Presentation techniques.
ď§ Facilitation techniques.
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Tools
⢠Proposal
⢠Seller-prepared Documents.
⢠Describe the sellerâs ability & willingness to provide the requested products.
⢠Constitutes a formal and technical offer in response to a buyerâs request.
⢠Bidder Conference
⢠Also called: Contractor Conferences, Vendor Conferences, and Pre-Bid
Conferences.
⢠Meeting Prospective Sellers before bids preparation, to ensure clear and
common understanding of procurement.
⢠All potential sellers are given equal standing during the conference.
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Tools
⢠Advertising
⢠Placing advertisements in general and specialty publications.
⢠Proposal Evaluation Techniques
⢠Can involve subjective and objective components.
⢠Multiple reviewers.
⢠Develop Qualified Sellers List
⢠List of sellers asked to submit a proposal.
⢠Developed from the organizational assets.
⢠Or project management team can develop from own sources.
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Select Sellers
⢠Lowest price is not necessarily lowest cost.
⢠Price might be the only factor in off the shelf items.
⢠Proposals are split into commercial and technical sections.
⢠Multiple sources may be required.
⢠Weighed System: method for quantifying qualitative data to minimize the
personal prejudice on source selection
⢠Independent Estimates: An estimate of what the seller should price the
service/ product
⢠Screening System: establishing minimum requirements of performance for
one of more of the evaluation criteria
⢠Contract Negotiation: Clarification & mutual agreement on contract
aspects
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Independent Estimates
⢠The procuring organization may either prepare its own independent
estimates, or have an estimate of cost prepared by an external
professional estimator.
⢠âShould-beâ price.
⢠Significant difference between seller price and estimates might
happen as a result of:
ďStatement of work is unclear.
ďProspective seller didnât understand or fully respond.
ďChange in market condition.
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Conduct Procurements
⢠The process of obtaining seller responses, selecting a seller, and awarding a contract.
⢠Select Seller
⢠Independent Estimates: An estimate of what the seller should price the service/ product
⢠The procuring organization may either prepare its own independent estimates, or have an
estimate of cost prepared by an external professional estimator
⢠Should-beâ price.
⢠Significant difference between seller price and estimates might happen as a result of:
⢠Statement of work is unclear.
⢠Prospective seller didnât understand or fullyrespond.
⢠Change in market condition.
⢠Screening System: Establishing minimum requirements of performance for one of more of the
evaluation criteria
⢠Eliminates sellers who donât meet the minimum requirements of the source selection criteria
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Manage Stakeholders Engagement
⢠The process of communicating and working with stakeholders to meet
their needs and addressing issues as they occur.
⢠Increases the likelihood that project will not veer off track due to
unresolved stakeholders issues and unmatched expectations.
⢠Key benefit is that it allows project manager to increase support and
minimize resistance from stakeholders.
⢠Involves communication activities directed towards project
stakeholders to influence their expectations, address concerns, and
resolve issues. Such as:
ď§ Actively managing the expectations of stakeholders to increase the
likelihood of project acceptance by negotiating and influencing
their desires to achieveproject goals.
ď§ Addressing concerns that have not become issues yet.
ď§ Clarifying and resolving issues that have been identified.
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I/O
⢠Issue Logs
⢠Also called action item log.
⢠Tool to document and monitor the resolution of issues.
⢠Addressed in order to maintain good, constructive working relationships.
⢠Interpersonal Skills
⢠Building trust.
⢠Resolving conflict.
⢠Active listening.
⢠Overcoming resistance to change.
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The 8 Steps for LeadingChange
⢠Establishing a sense of urgency.
⢠Creating the guiding coalition.
⢠Developing a vision and strategy.
⢠Communicating the change vision.
⢠Empowering employees for broad-based action.
⢠Generating short-term wins.
⢠Consolidating (accumulating) gains and producing more change.
⢠Anchoring new approaches in the culture.
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I/O
⢠Management Skills
ď§ Facilitate consensus toward project objectives
ď§ Influence people to support the project
ď§ Negotiate agreements to satisfy the project needs, and
ď§ Modify organizational behavior to accept the project outcomes
⢠Project Document (Update)
ď§ Stakeholder management strategy.
ď§ Stakeholder register.
ď§ Issue log.
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Topics to be covered in next session
⢠Project Monitoring and Control
⢠Perform Integrated Change Control
⢠Validate Scope
⢠Control Scope
⢠Control Schedule
⢠Control Costs
⢠Control Quality
⢠Control Communications
⢠Control Risks
⢠Control Procurement
⢠Control Stakeholder Engagement