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Successful Project Planning - Drasvin
- 1. Successful Project Planningand Delivery By Drasvin Cheowtirakul 4/15/2011
- 2. Successful Project Planningand Delivery By Drasvin Cheowtirakul 4/15/2011
- 3. 1. Project SuccessReport and Survey 2. Common Project Issues 3. Key Project Success Factors 4. Possible Solutions 5. Q&A Agenda 3
- 4. 1. Project SuccessReport and Survey 4
- 5. Sources for ProjectSuccess Report and Survey 2009 CHAOS Report 2010 IT Project Success Survey 5
- 6. Standish Group’s ChaosReport Successful: On-time, on-budget, and with all features and functions as defined in the initial scope. Challenged: Late, over budget, and/or with less features and functions than defined in the initial scope. Failed: Cancelled prior to completion, or delivered but never used. 6
- 7. 2000’s 2010’s1990’s Customer Acceptance Time, Cost, MeetReq., Quality Organizational Impact Project Success Definition Expanded 7
- 8. IT Project SuccessSurvey • Definition of Successful Projects Time/Schedule: 54% prefer deliver on time according to the schedule; 44% prefer deliver when the system is ready. Financial: 35% prefer deliver within budget; 60% prefer to provide good return on investment (ROI). Functionality: 14% prefer to build the system to specification; 85% prefer to meet the actual need of stakeholders. Quality: 40% prefer to deliver on time and on budget, 57% prefer to deliver high-quality, easy-to-maintain systems. 8
- 9. IT Project SuccessSurvey • Different Project Methodology Ad-hoc: No defined process Iterative: Rational Unified Process (RUP) Agile: Scrum and Extreme Programming (XP) Traditional: Waterfall, Classical, and Serial Processes 9
- 10. IT Project SuccessSurvey • Perceived Project Success Rates 10
- 11. IT Project SuccessSurvey • Project Team Size Small Team: 10 or fewer people. Medium Team: 11 to 25 people. Large Team: 26 or more people. 11
- 12. IT Project SuccessSurvey • Perceived Project Success Rates by Team Size 12
- 13. 2. Common ProjectIssues 13
- 14. Project Management’s FiveDeadly Sins (Standish Group’s CHAOS Report) 1. Over Ambition: Project manager taking on too much at once. 2. Prestige: Project manager having an over confident attitude towards team members. 3. Ignorance: Poor understanding of project goals and overall objective. 4. Absence: Key member or decision-maker are not dedicating enough time. 5. Dishonesty: Concealing facts. 14
- 15. Project Challenged Factors (StandishGroup’s CHAOS Report) 15
- 16. Managing Project Requirementsand Expectation 16
- 17. 3. Key ProjectSuccess Factors 17
- 18. The 10 Lawsof Chaos and Chaos Success Factors 18
- 19. The 10 Lawsof Chaos and Chaos Success Factors 1. Law of the Two Faces Successful projects include knowledgeable business users with good communication skills. User Involvement 19
- 20. The 10 Lawsof Chaos and Chaos Success Factors 2. Cheetah’s Law Swift decisions are typically better than long, drawn-out analysis. Executive Support 20
- 21. The 10 Lawsof Chaos and Chaos Success Factors 3. Law of the Roads Clarity and focus are essential to a successful project. Clear Business Objects 21
- 22. The 10 Lawsof Chaos and Chaos Success Factors 4. Law of the Five Deadly Sins It’s how you deal with these sins that will determine the success or failure of the project. Emotional Maturity 22
- 23. The 10 Lawsof Chaos and Chaos Success Factors 5. Law of the Long-Tailed Monster You will always build too much of what you don’t need and not enough of what you need. Optimization 23
- 24. The 10 Lawsof Chaos and Chaos Success Factors 6. Law of the Edible Elephant Large projects should be broken into small, iterative steps with small, focused teams. Agile Process 24
- 25. The 10 Lawsof Chaos and Chaos Success Factors 7. Law of the Mad Hatter Complexity causes confusion and costs. Project Management Expertise 25
- 26. The 10 Lawsof Chaos and Chaos Success Factors 8. Law of the Empty Chair Keep the project cycles short with continuous deliverable. Skilled Resources 26
- 27. The 10 Lawsof Chaos and Chaos Success Factors 9. Panda’s Law Inaction is the purest form of failure. Execution 27
- 28. The 10 Lawsof Chaos and Chaos Success Factors 10. Law of the Fools It is not just having the right tools but the skill to use them that make all the difference. Tools and Infrastructure 28
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- 30. Possible Solution: SpendExtra Effort on Project Planning 30 • Create Project Goals – Identify all stakeholders and define project objective. • Create Project Deliverables – List of things the project needs to deliver. • Create Project Schedule – List of tasks with duration and resource associated to it. • Create Supporting Plan – HR Plan, Communications Plan, Risk Management Plan. • Continuous Improvement – Continuously manage and update the project plan.
- 31. Possible Solution: Agile 31 •Individuals and interactions over processes and tools • Working software over comprehensive documentation • Customer collaboration over contract negotiation • Responding to change over following a plan
- 32. Possible Solution: LeanDevelopment 32 “Think big, act small, fail fast; learn rapidly” –
- 33. Conclusion 33 Choose the solutionthat best fits your project. “Good project management is a process of continuous improvement. It is a process of making mistakes and learning from those mistakes. It is a process of continuous study and learning.”
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