This presentation explains the major challenges project manager face in managing triple constraint scope,cost and time. It also gives suggestions towards those challenges.

1. TOP 3 CHALLENGES
IN MANAGING
TRIPLE CONSTRAINT
IT Project Management
Sunil Guglani, PMP

3. Triple Constraint
■ The triple constraint is the combination of three most
significant attributes Scope, Cost and Time of Project
Management.
■ The further refinement has added the additional constraint
Quality in the Project Management Triangle.
■ These parameters are often used to measure the
performance of the project and also decide success or failure
of the project.
■ Change in any side of the triangle effects the other sides of
the triangle.
■ The priority in the triple constraint is decided by Project
Sponsor.

4. Major Challenges in managing
Triple Constraint
■ Scope management challenge: Scope Creep
■ Time Management challenge: Request of Schedule
Compression
■ Cost Management challenge: Request of Compressed budget

5. Scope Creep

6. What is Scope Creep?
■ Does following situation look familiar to you:
– The client is giving you tough time in UAT sign off and
asking for many changes in the system.
– The client has asked for some additional feature which
is not in the agreed scope/SOW, without going through
change control procedure.
– The client is asking you to change the feature, it was
initially agreed.
■ The above situations are perfect examples of scope creep.

8. ■ Any change in the scope where cost and time are not updated
appropriately is considered as Scope creep.
■ It is mostly considered as risk in the project.
■ Scope Creep is considered as the most common cause for
the project failures.

9. How to prevent Scope Creep
Scope Definition
– Properly defined and documented scope
– Sufficient involvement of all the stakeholders in the
project
– Signoff on requirement and Functional Document from
the client/stakeholders.
– Proper requirement gathering, ensure the requirement
gathering by various techniques
 interview of stakeholders
 Prototyping
 Product Demonstrations
 Group Sessions

10. Poorly defined Scope definition

11. Scope Control
– Verify and Validate scope in each phase of SDLC using
traceability matrix.
– Verify between Business Objectives<-Business Requirement <-
Functionalities<-Design<-Development
– Be firm while negotiating with the client on new
requirements.
– Validate between
 Development<- Unit Testing
 Design <- SIT
 Functionalities <- System Testing
 Business Requirements <-UAT

12. Schedule Compression

13. What is Schedule Compression
■ Does following situation look familiar to you:
– Your project is behind the schedule and you need to
keep it back on track
– Your is project is on schedule but you got the request
from Project sponsor or Client to complete the project
faster to meet certain the business objectives.

14. How to achieve
Schedule Compression
– Review the Project plan again and see if dependency on
the activities can be revised and activities can be done
in parallel
– Project is progressively elaborated, therefore Review the
Project plan again on estimation and see if duration of
the activities can be shorten.
– Check the feasibility of putting more resources will
shorten the duration of the project.

15. Cost
Compression/Reductio

16. What is Cost Compression
■ Does following situation look familiar to you:
– Your project expenditure has gone more than the
planned budget and you need to keep it back on track.
– Your project expenditure is as per planned budget but
you got the request from Project sponsor or Client to
complete the project in lesser cost to have more project
profitability.

17. How to achieve
Cost Compression
– Evaluate Make or Buy decisions for your various project
modules to reduce the cost. For example, if outsourcing
of some part of the project to third party vendor is
cheaper then go for it.
– Revisit the Project Plan for Resource, Duration and Cost
estimate of activities.
– Revisit the activity dependencies, if some activities can
be done in parallel and project duration can be shorten,
you can release the resources from team and reduce
the project cost.

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