The document provides an introduction to project management, focusing on key concepts such as the stages of a project, including initiation, planning, execution, and closedown. It highlights the importance of a project baseline plan that encompasses problem definition, constraints, schedule, risk assessment, budget, and resources. Additionally, it discusses the significance of designing a professional time-plan and different diagramming methods like Gantt charts for tracking project progress.

1. Introduction To Project Management
By Ahmed M. Farid
Outcomes:
- Basic Understanding of Project Management
- Designing a Professional Time-Plan
- How to Use Microsoft Project

2. What's a project?
● Collaborative work towards a goal.
● Involves:
– Research
– Planning
– Design
– Implementation

3. What a project looks like: Development Life-Cycle

4. Project Management
● Discipline of planning, motivating, and controlling resources within a project.
● Projects are managed in four phases:
● Initiation:
Selection of team members, managing customer relations, setting up
management/communications procedures, and determining development methodology.
● Planning:
Project Baseline Plan (Will be explained shortly)
● Execution
Implementation of the baseline plan.
● Closedown
Delivering project outcomes and closing the contract.

5. Project Baseline Plan
● A plan that explains how a project should operate from start to end.
● Contains:
– Problem Definition (What is the problem and is its required solution?)
– Constraints (What can and can't be done)
– Schedule (Time-plan of needed tasks)
– Risk Assessment (Detecting risks and overcoming them)
– Budget (Measurable: Money and time)
– Resources (Employees, equipment, infrastructure,... etc.)
– Project Value (Importance and Impact)
● This model can be used for feasibility studies

6. Does project management theoretically end after
planning?
● No, it's an ongoing process:
– Progress is monitored according to the time-plan.
– Communications must be maintained.
– Risk assessment procedures.
– Documentation and logging activity.
● Adhering to a time-plan is very crucial. Designing a time-
plan should be clever.

7. Time-Plan
● A plan that indicates the timings and allocated resources
of project tasks.
● To better understand its mechanics, how about an
example scenario?
– We are an engineering firm with an idea to implement
a smart street trafficking system. What should we do?

8. The tasks we need to do:
ID Task Name Duration (Months) Precedence
1 Prepare place 1 -
2 Obtain needed equipment 1 1
3 Hire Personnel 2 1
4 Public Relations 9 1
5 Public awareness 12 3
6 Develop the system 12 2,3
7 Test the system 2 6
1
4
3
2
5
6
7
Te=1
Te: Early Time
Tl: Late Time
Critical Path
Te=10
Te=3
Te=2
Te=15
Te=15
Te=17
Tl=17
Tl=15
Tl=17
Tl=3
Tl=3
Tl=17
Tl=1
S=0
S=0
S=0
S=0
S=7
S=1
S=2
S: Slack Time

9. Diagraming Methods
● What we saw is a network diagram
– It shows sequence
– Progress is not clear
● There is another method: Gantt Chart
– More commonly used
– Shows progress better
● We will see how it looks like in MS Project now.

10. Let's pose a question...What is a good manager?

11. Advice
Make sure you have resources before starting a project

12. T hank you for your time!
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