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1. Chapter 1:
Introduction to Project Management
Information Technology
Project Management,
Fifth Edition
2. Learning Objectives
Understand the growing need for better project
management, especially for information technology
projects
Explain what a project is, provide examples of
information technology projects, list various attributes
of projects, and describe the triple constraint of
projects
Describe project management and discuss key
elements of the project management framework,
including project stakeholders, the project
management knowledge areas, common tools and
techniques, and project success
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3. Learning Objectives (continued)
Discuss the relationship between project, program,
and portfolio management and the contributions
they each make to enterprise success
Understand the role of the project manager by
describing what project managers do, what skills
they need, and what the career field is like for
information technology project managers
Describe the project management profession,
including its history, the role of professional
organizations like the Project Management Institute,
the importance of certification and ethics, and the
advancement of project management software
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4. Introduction
Many organizations today have a new or renewed
interest in project management
Computer hardware, software, networks, and the
use of interdisciplinary and global work teams
have radically changed the work environment
The U.S. spends $2.3 trillion on projects every
year, or one-quarter of its gross domestic product,
and the world as a whole spends nearly $10 trillion
of its $40.7 gross product on projects of all kinds
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5. Project Management Statistics
Worldwide IT spending totaled more than $1.8
trillion in 2005, a 6 percent increase from 2004,
and spending is projected to grow 8 percent in
2006 and 4 percent in 2007
In 2005, the total compensation for the average
senior project manager was $99,183 per year in
the United States, $94,646 in Australia, and
$106,374 in the United Kingdom
The number of people earning their Project
Management Professional (PMP) certification
increased by more than 70 percent from 2004 to
2005, with more than 200,000 PMPs worldwide by
the end of August, 2006
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6. Motivation for Studying Information
Technology (IT) Project Management
IT Projects have a terrible track record, as
described in the “What Went Wrong?” section
A 1995 Standish Group study (CHAOS) found that
only 16.2% of IT projects were successful in
meeting scope, time, and cost goals
Over 31% of IT projects were canceled before
completion, costing over $81 billion in the U.S.
alone
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7. Advantages of Using Formal
Project Management
Better control of financial, physical, and human
resources
Improved customer relations
Shorter development times
Lower costs
Higher quality and increased reliability
Higher profit margins
Improved productivity
Better internal coordination
Higher worker morale (less stress)
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8. What Is a Project?
A project is “a temporary endeavor undertaken
to create a unique product, service, or result”
(PMBOK® Guide, Third Edition, 2004, p. 5)
Operations is work done to sustain the
business
Projects end when their objectives have been
reached or the project has been terminated
Projects can be large or small and take a short
or long time to complete
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9. Examples of IT Projects
A help desk or technical worker replaces ten
laptops for a small department
A small software development team adds a new
feature to an internal software application for the
finance department
A college campus upgrades its technology
infrastructure to provide wireless Internet access
across the whole campus
A cross-functional task force in a company
decides what Voice-over-Internet-Protocol
(VoIP) system to purchase and how it will be
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10. Top Ten Technology Projects in
2006
VoIP Supply chain
Outsourcing management
Desktop upgrades
Data networking
Application
Customer
performance
relationship
management
management
Business analytics
Collaboration
Compliance tracking
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11. Media Snapshot: Where IT Matters
In 2006, Baseline Magazine published “Where
I.T. Matters: How 10 Technologies Transformed
10 Industries” as a retort to Nicholas Carr’s ideas
(author of “IT Doesn’t Matter”)
VoIP has transformed the telecommunications industry
and broadband Internet access
Global Positioning Systems (GPS) has changed the
farming industry
Digital supply chain has changed the entertainment
industry’s distribution system
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12. Project Attributes
A project:
Has a unique purpose
Is temporary
Is developed using progressive elaboration
Requires resources, often from various areas
Should have a primary customer or sponsor
The project sponsor usually provides the direction and funding
for the project
Involves uncertainty
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13. Project and Program Managers
Project managers work with project sponsors, a
project team, and other people involved in a
project to meet project goals
Program: group of related projects managed in a
coordinated way to obtain benefits and control
not available from managing them individually
(PMBOK® Guide, Third Edition, 2004, p. 16)
Program managers oversee programs and often
act as bosses for project managers
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14. Figure 1-1: The Triple Constraint of
Project Management
Successful project
management means
meeting all three
goals (scope, time,
and cost) – and
satisfying the
project’s sponsor!
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15. What is Project Management?
Project management is “the application of
knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to
project activities to meet project requirements”
(PMBOK® Guide, Third Edition, 2004, p. 8)
Project managers strive to meet the triple
constraint by balancing project scope, time,
and cost goals
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17. Project Stakeholders
Stakeholders are the people involved in or
affected by project activities
Stakeholders include:
The project sponsor
The project manager
The project team
Support staff
Customers
Users
Suppliers
Opponents to the project
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18. Nine Project Management
Knowledge Areas
Knowledge areas describe the key competencies
that project managers must develop
Four core knowledge areas lead to specific project
objectives (scope, time, cost, and quality)
Four facilitating knowledge areas are the means through
which the project objectives are achieved (human
resources, communication, risk, and procurement
management
One knowledge area (project integration management)
affects and is affected by all of the other knowledge
areas
All knowledge areas are important!
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19. Project Management Tools and
Techniques
Project management tools and techniques
assist project managers and their teams in various
aspects of project management
Some specific ones include:
Project charter, scope statement, and WBS (scope)
Gantt charts, network diagrams, critical path analysis,
and critical chain scheduling (time)
Cost estimates and earned value management (cost)
See Table 1-1 for many more
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20. Super Tools
“Super tools” are those tools that have high use
and high potential for improving project success,
such as:
Software for task scheduling (such as project
management software)
Scope statements
Requirements analyses
Lessons-learned reports
Tools already extensively used that have been
found to improve project importance include:
Progress reports
Kick-off meetings
Gantt charts
Change requests
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21. What Went Right? Improved
Project Performance
• The Standish Group’s CHAOS studies show improvements in IT
projects in the past decade
Measure 1994 Data 2002 Data Result
Successful projects 16% 34% Doubled
Failed projects 31% 15% Halved
Money wasted on $140 B out $55 B out of More than
challenged and of $250 B $255 B halved
failed projects
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22. Why the Improvements?
"The reasons for the increase in successful
projects vary. First, the average cost of a project
has been more than cut in half. Better tools have
been created to monitor and control progress and
better skilled project managers with better
management processes are being used. The
fact that there are processes is significant in
itself.”*
*The Standish Group, "CHAOS 2001: A Recipe for Success" (2001).
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23. Project Success
There are several ways to define project success
The project met scope, time, and cost goals
The project satisfied the customer/sponsor
The results of the project met its main objective, such
as making or saving a certain amount of money,
providing a good return on investment, or simply
making the sponsors happy
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24. Table 1-2: What Helps Projects Succeed?*
1. Executive support 7. Firm basic requirements
2. User involvement 8. Formal methodology
3. Experienced project 9. Reliable estimates
manager 10. Other criteria, such as
4. Clear business small milestones, proper
objectives planning, competent
5. Minimized scope staff, and ownership
6. Standard software
infrastructure
*The Standish Group, “Extreme CHAOS,” (2001).
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25. What the Winners Do
• Recent research findings show that companies
that excel in project delivery capability:
– Use an integrated project management toolbox (use
standard/advanced PM tools and lots of templates)
– Grow project leaders, emphasizing business and soft
skills
– Develop a streamlined project delivery process
– Measure project health using metrics, like customer
satisfaction or return on investment
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26. Program and Project Portfolio
Management
A program is “a group of related projects managed in
a coordinated way to obtain benefits and control not
available from managing them individually”
(PMBOK® Guide, Third Edition, 2004, p. 16)
A program manager provides leadership and
direction for the project managers heading the
projects within the program
Examples of common programs in the IT field:
infrastructure, applications development, and user
support
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27. Project Portfolio Management
As part of project portfolio management,
organizations group and manage projects and
programs as a portfolio of investments that
contribute to the entire enterprise’s success
Portfolio managers help their organizations make
wise investment decisions by helping to select
and analyze projects from a strategic perspective
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28. Figure 1-3: Project Management
Compared to Project Portfolio
Management
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29. Best Practice
A best practice is “an optimal way recognized by industry
to achieve a stated goal or objective”*
Robert Butrick suggests that organizations need to follow
basic principles of project management, including these
two mentioned earlier in this chapter
Make sure your projects are driven by your strategy; be able
to demonstrate how each project you undertake fits your
business strategy, and screen out unwanted projects as soon
as possible
Engage your stakeholders; ignoring stakeholders often leads
to project failure
Be sure to engage stakeholders at all stages of a project, and
encourage teamwork and commitment at all times
*Project Management Institute, Inc., Organizational Project Management Maturity Model
(OPM3) Knowledge Foundation (2003), p. 13.
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31. Figure 1-5: Sample Project Portfolio
Management Screen Showing
Project Health
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32. Suggested Skills for Project
Managers
Project managers need a wide variety of skills
They should:
Be comfortable with change
Understand the organizations they work in and with
Be able to lead teams to accomplish project goals
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33. The Role of the Project Manager
Job descriptions vary, but most include
responsibilities like planning, scheduling,
coordinating, and working with people to achieve
project goals
Remember that 97% of successful projects were
led by experienced project managers, who can
often help influence success factors
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34. Suggested Skills for Project Managers
The Project Management Body of Knowledge
Application area knowledge, standards, and
regulations
Project environment knowledge
General management knowledge and skills
Soft skills or human relations skills
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35. Table 1-3: Ten Most Important Skills
and Competencies for Project
Managers
1. People skills
2. Leadership
3. Listening
4. Integrity, ethical behavior, consistent
5. Strong at building trust
6. Verbal communication
7. Strong at building teams
8. Conflict resolution, conflict management
9. Critical thinking, problem solving
10. Understands, balances priorities
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36. Different Skills Needed in Different
Situations
Large projects: leadership, relevant prior
experience, planning, people skills, verbal
communication, and team-building skills are most
important
High uncertainty projects: risk management,
expectation management, leadership, people
skills, and planning skills are most important
Very novel projects: leadership, people skills,
having vision and goals, self-confidence,
expectations management, and listening skills
are most important
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37. Importance of Leadership Skills
Effective project managers provide leadership by
example
A leader focuses on long-term goals and big-
picture objectives while inspiring people to reach
those goals
A manager deals with the day-to-day details of
meeting specific goals
Project managers often take on the role of both
leader and manager
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38. Careers for IT Project Managers
In a 2006 survey by CIO.com, IT executives
ranked project/program management the skills
that would be the most in demand in the next two
to five years
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39. Table 1-4: Top IT Skills (partial list)
SKILL PERCENTAGE OF RESPONDENTS
Project/program management 60%
Business process management 55%
Business analysis 53%
Application development 52%
Database management 49%
Security 42%
Enterprise architect 41%
Strategist/internal consultant 40%
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40. The Project Management Profession
The profession of project management is growing
at a very rapid pace
It is helpful to understand the history of the field,
the role of professional societies like the Project
Management Institute, and the growth in project
management software
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41. History of Project Management
Some people argue that building the Egyptian
pyramids was a project, as was building the
Great Wall of China
Most people consider the Manhattan Project to
be the first project to use “modern” project
management
This three-year, $2 billion (in 1946 dollars)
project had a separate project manager and a
technical manager
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42. Figure 1-6: Sample Gantt Chart
Created with Project 2007
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43. Figure 1-7: Sample Network
Diagram in Microsoft Project
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44. The Project Management Institute
The Project Management Institute (PMI) is an
international professional society for project
managers founded in 1969
PMI has continued to attract and retain members,
reporting 225,432 members worldwide by
12/31/06
There are specific interest groups in many areas
like engineering, financial services, health care,
IT, etc.
Project management research and certification
programs continue to grow
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45. Project Management Certification
PMI provides certification as a Project
Management Professional (PMP)
A PMP has documented sufficient project
experience, has agreed to follow a code of ethics,
and has passed the PMP exam
The number of people earning PMP certification
is increasing quickly
PMI and other organizations are offering new
certification programs (see Appendix B)
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46. Figure 1-8: Growth in PMP
Certification, 1993-2006
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47. Ethics in Project Management
Ethics, loosely defined, is a set of principles that
guide our decision making based on personal
values of what is “right” and “wrong”
Project managers often face ethical dilemmas
In order to earn PMP certification, applicants
must agree to PMI’s Code of Ethics and
Professional Conduct
Several questions on the PMP exam are related
to professional responsibility, including ethics
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48. Project Management Software
There are hundreds of different products to assist
in performing project management
Three main categories of tools
Low-end tools: handle single or smaller projects well,
cost under $200 per user
Midrange tools: handle multiple projects and users, cost
$200-600 per user, Project 2007 most popular
High-end tools: also called enterprise project
management software, often licensed on a per-user
basis, like VPMi Enterprise Online (www.vcsonline.com);
see front cover for trial version information
See the Project Management Center Web site or
Top Ten Reviews for links to many companies that
provide project management software
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49. Chapter Summary
A project is a temporary endeavor undertaken to
create a unique product, service, or result
Project management is the application of knowledge,
skills, tools, and techniques to project activities to
meet project requirements
A program is a group of related projects managed in
a coordinated way; project portfolio management
involves organizing and managing projects and
programs as a portfolio of investments
Project managers play a key role in helping projects
and organizations succeed
The project management profession continues to
grow and mature
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