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Chapter 2: Project Management Overview
Project Management
Overview
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Project Management
Chapter 2: Project Management Overview
Purpose of the chapter
• Define a project
• Define project success
• Project constraints
• Project management expertise
• The project environment
• Project management knowledge and skills
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Project Management
Chapter 2: Project Management Overview
Define a project
• Define a project:
• Unique product or service
• Time-limited
• Project ends when the objectives are achieved or
abandoned
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Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY).
Project Management
Chapter 2: Project Management Overview
Unique
• How can you tell that an activity is unique?
• Completely new product or service
• Creation of new process
• Product or service new to this group of people
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Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY).
Project Management
Chapter 2: Project Management Overview
Time-limited
• May have a start and end date
• May be measured as “will be complete when a
particular objective is achieved”
• If it simply continues forever or to an unspecified end-
date it is probably an ongoing business activity
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Chapter 2: Project Management Overview
Can tell when it is done
• Objective is achieved
• Time limit is reached
• Objective is abandoned
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Project Management
Chapter 2: Project Management Overview
Project Success
• Traditionally: on time, within budget and delivers the
promised scope
• More effective measure: satisfied customer
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Chapter 2: Project Management Overview
Group work
• In small groups, try to identify the LARGEST project
each of you have been involved with.
• You do not have to have been the project manager—if
not, what was your role? (team member, volunteer,
purchaser, ??)
• With the group, make it clear how the project you have
identified meets the criteria:
• Unique
• Temporary
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Project Management
Chapter 2: Project Management Overview
Project constraints
• Cost
• Scope
• Quality
• Risk
• Resources
• Time
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Project Management
Chapter 2: Project Management Overview
Triple constraint
• All the constraints can be grouped into these three:
The triad constraints by John M. Kennedy T. (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_triad_constraints.jpg) used under CC-BY-SA license
(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)
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Project Management
Chapter 2: Project Management Overview
Project Management Expertise
• Application knowledge
• Industry group
• Technical specialty
• Managerial area
• Understanding the project environment
• Cultural, social, political, international, physical
• Management knowledge and skills
• Interpersonal skills
• Communication, influence, leadership, motivation, negotiation
and problem solving
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Chapter 2: Project Management Overview
Project Management
Standards
• Standards organizations
• PMI
• Project Management Institute: http://www.pmi.org/
• CAPM, PMP and other professional standards
• IPMA
• International Project Management Association: http://ipma.ch/
• Several certifications
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Summary
• Project definition: unique, time-limited, can tell when it
is over
• Project success: satisfied client
• Project constraints: time, scope, cost
• Project management expertise
• The project environment
• Project management knowledge and skills
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  • 1. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY). Project Management Chapter 2: Project Management Overview Project Management Overview
  • 2. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY). Project Management Chapter 2: Project Management Overview Purpose of the chapter • Define a project • Define project success • Project constraints • Project management expertise • The project environment • Project management knowledge and skills
  • 3. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY). Project Management Chapter 2: Project Management Overview Define a project • Define a project: • Unique product or service • Time-limited • Project ends when the objectives are achieved or abandoned
  • 4. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY). Project Management Chapter 2: Project Management Overview Unique • How can you tell that an activity is unique? • Completely new product or service • Creation of new process • Product or service new to this group of people
  • 5. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY). Project Management Chapter 2: Project Management Overview Time-limited • May have a start and end date • May be measured as “will be complete when a particular objective is achieved” • If it simply continues forever or to an unspecified end- date it is probably an ongoing business activity
  • 6. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY). Project Management Chapter 2: Project Management Overview Can tell when it is done • Objective is achieved • Time limit is reached • Objective is abandoned
  • 7. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY). Project Management Chapter 2: Project Management Overview Project Success • Traditionally: on time, within budget and delivers the promised scope • More effective measure: satisfied customer
  • 8. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY). Project Management Chapter 2: Project Management Overview Group work • In small groups, try to identify the LARGEST project each of you have been involved with. • You do not have to have been the project manager—if not, what was your role? (team member, volunteer, purchaser, ??) • With the group, make it clear how the project you have identified meets the criteria: • Unique • Temporary
  • 9. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY). Project Management Chapter 2: Project Management Overview Project constraints • Cost • Scope • Quality • Risk • Resources • Time
  • 10. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY). Project Management Chapter 2: Project Management Overview Triple constraint • All the constraints can be grouped into these three: The triad constraints by John M. Kennedy T. (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_triad_constraints.jpg) used under CC-BY-SA license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)
  • 11. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY). Project Management Chapter 2: Project Management Overview Project Management Expertise • Application knowledge • Industry group • Technical specialty • Managerial area • Understanding the project environment • Cultural, social, political, international, physical • Management knowledge and skills • Interpersonal skills • Communication, influence, leadership, motivation, negotiation and problem solving
  • 12. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY). Project Management Chapter 2: Project Management Overview Project Management Standards • Standards organizations • PMI • Project Management Institute: http://www.pmi.org/ • CAPM, PMP and other professional standards • IPMA • International Project Management Association: http://ipma.ch/ • Several certifications
  • 13. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY). Project Management Chapter 2: Project Management Overview Summary • Project definition: unique, time-limited, can tell when it is over • Project success: satisfied client • Project constraints: time, scope, cost • Project management expertise • The project environment • Project management knowledge and skills
  • 14. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY). Project Management Chapter 2: Project Management Overview Questions?