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1. Project Management
(BASIC THINGS)

2. Learning Objectives
 Defining project management
 Project management
 Planning
 Budgeting

3. Who can name examples of projects?
 Planning a wedding
 Designing and implementing a computer system
 Hosting a holiday party
 Designing and producing a brochure
 Executing an environmental clean-up of a contaminated
site
 Holding a high school reunion
 Performing a series of surgeries on an accident victim

5. Project meaning
What is project?
A temporary and one-time
endeavor undertaken to create a
unique product or service, which
brings about beneficial change or
added value

6. Defining Project Management
 The application of knowledge, skills, tools
and techniques to project activities to meet
project requirements
 Organizing and managing resources so the
project is completed within defined scope,
quality, time and cost constraints

7. Project Management
The very first thing you learn in project
management is..
that the focus of a Project Manager is
always…

8. PM Triple Constraints
 Time
 Cost
 Scope
Manage these or they will
manage you!

9. Steps of the planning
1. Clearly define the project objective.
2. Divide and subdivide the project scope into major “pieces”
3. Define the specific activities for each piece (work package)
4. Graphically portray the activities that need to be performed fro
each work package in order to accomplish the project objective
– in the form of network diagram.
5. Make a time estimate for how long it will take to complete
each activity – resources needed.
6. Make a cost estimate for each activity.
7. Calculate a project schedule and budget to determine whether
the project can be completed within the required time, with the
allotted founds, and with the available resources

10. Tasks
• There are four major types of tasks:
1. Summary tasks - contain subtasks and their
related properties
2. Subtasks - are smaller tasks that are a part of
a summary task
3. Recurring tasks - are tasks that occur at
regular intervals
4. Milestones - are tasks that are set to zero
duration and are like interim goals in the
project

11. Create a budget for your project
• Step 1: Create budget resources for your project
• Step 2: Assign the budget resources to the project
summary task
• Step 3: Enter values for the budget resources
• Step 4: Categorize resource costs according to their
budget type
• Step 5: Group resources to view how they compare
against the budget

12. Before starting
… or at least to make an idea of the project
Why
What
Where
How
When
Who

13. As an example – see
the chart of project

16. Does everyone
can run the project?

17. What are the most
important skills for Project
management?
Can you name it?

18. Suggested Skills for Project Managers
 Communication skills: Listens, persuades.
 Organizational skills: Plans, sets goals, analyzes.
 Team-building skills: Shows empathy, motivates,
promotes esprit de corps.
 Leadership skills: Sets examples, provides vision
(big picture), delegates, positive, energetic.
 Coping skills: Flexible, creative, patient, persistent.
 Technology skills: Experience, project knowledge.
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Information Technology Project
Management, Fourth Edition

19. So Does you Matching for AIESEC program is a project?
1) Time
2) Goal
3) Process
4) Tasks
5) ….

20. More little or big project
Will happen in your life
During your internship
During your preparation ….etc

21. So – take these
knowledge and create
amazing projects of your
life <3