Project Management
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| Application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements | Project management |
| 5 Process groups | Initiating planning executing monitoring and controlling closing |
| Highlights the importance of appropriately engaging project stakeholders in key decisions and activities | Project stakeholder management |
| "Leadership is the art of getting others to want to do something that you believe should be done." | Vance Packard |
| Represent the management or administrative parts of the job | Planning, scheduling and control of work |
| Three components to the plan | Strategy tactics logistics |
| Deals with making sure the team has the materials and other supplies needed to do their jobs | Logistics |
| Team can begin work | Execution |
| First step in managing a project where it helps to visualize the desired end result | Define the problem |
| Second step in managing a project for brainstorm solution alternatives | Develop solution options |
| Third step in managing a project answering questions | Plan the project |
| Fourth step in managing a project showing once the plan is drafted, it must be implemented. | Execute the plan |
| Fifth step: are we on target? if not, what must be done? should the plan be changed? | Monitor and control the progress |
| Attempted to determine a minimum body of knowledge that a project manager needs in order to be effective | Project Management Institute |
| Way of doing something | Process |
| First process in project: | Initiating |
| Next process in project | Planning |
| Ensures that the project is properly planned, executed, and controlled, including the exercise of formal project change control | Project integration management |
| Authorizing the job, developing a scope statement that will define the boundaries of the project, subdividing work, verifying amount of work, specifying scope | Project scope management |
| Refers to developing a schedule that can be met, then controlling work to ensure that this happens | Project time management |
| Involves estimating the cost of resources, including people, equipment, materials, and such things as travel and other support details | Project cost management |
| Includes both quality assurance and quality control | Project quality management |
| Involves identifying the people needed to do the job, defining their roles, responsibilities, and reporting relationships | Project human resources management |
| Planning, executing, and controlling the acquisition and dissemination of all information relevant to the needs of all project stakeholders | Project communications management |
| Involves deciding what must be procured, issuing requests for bids or quotations, selecting vendors, administering contracts, and closing them when the job is finished | Project procurement management |
| Includes the processes required to identify and manage the people, groups, or organizations that could impact or be impacted by the project | Project stakeholder management |
| Responsible for day-to-day management of the project and must be competent in managing the six aspects of a project | Project manager |
| 6 aspects of a project | Scope schedule finance risk quality resources |
| One of the most effective tools for root cause analysis in the lean management arsenal | 5 Whys technique |
| Who developed 5 whys technique? | Sakichi Toyoda |
| Who developed 5W1H approach? | Jean-Pierre Giraud |
| Your message to the rest of the world about what you intend to accomplish with your project | Mission statement |
| Description or declaration of what an organization/project team wants to obtain or accomplish upon the completion of a project | Vision statement |
| What you plan to achieve by the end of your project | Project objectives |
| Lists all the potential project risk and what their characteristics would be | Risk identification |
| Processing of prioritizing risks for further analysis or action; scale is commonly ranked from zero to one; beneficial it will focus mostly on high-impact risks | Qualitative risk analysis |
| On large-scale projects, risk management strategies might include ___________ for each risk to ensure mitigation strategies are in place if issures arise | Extensive detailed planning |
| For these type of projects, risk management might mean a simple, prioritized list of high, medium, and low priority risks | Smaller projects |
| Step 1 in a Project Risk Plan; brainstorm | Make a list. |
| Step 2 and 3 that allow you to prioritize all identified threats to the project and help you determine how much time, effort, staff and money should be devoted to mitigate each | Determine the probability of risk occurrence and negative impact. |
| Step 4; risks can be prevented; others can only be mitigated | Prevent or Mitigate the Risk |
| Step 5; where preventive measures are those steps taken before the risk becomes reality | Consider contingencies |
| Directly linked to the prioritization factors | Contingencies |
| Step 6: trigger point | Establish the trigger point. |
| Designated amounts of time and/or budget to account for risks to the project that have been identified and actively accepted | Contingent reserves |
| Designated amounts of time and/or budget to account for risks to the project that cannot be predicted | Management reserves |
| Defining the types of information you will deliver, who will receive it, the format of communicating it, and timing | Communications planning process |
| Figuring out what kind of communication your stakeholders need from the project | Communications requirements analysis |
| Communicating through electronic communication | Virtual teams |
| If all the parties to the communication are taking part in the exchange at the same time | Synchronous communication |
| Gathering of team members at the same location | Live meeting |
| Telephone call in which several people participate | Conference call |
| Conducted online using software like skype | Audio conference |
| Audio conference with a connection between computers that can display a docu or sheet that can be edited by both parties | Computer-assisted conference |
| With live video of the participants | Video conference |
| Communication that do not require parties to be present at the same time | Asynchronous communication |