...To demonstrate competence in this unit you will need to show that you can design and develop a project plan. Your task is to select an idea, improvement or opportunity that could be applied in a hospitality or tourism business operation. Describe the business and describe the project you might initiate in context. Explain why such a project would be beneficial. What procedures might you use to ensure that the project was sponsored and supported by the organisation? Define the project, write a project narrative and develop a project plan, including the processes that would be used to manage financial, technical, human and physical resources. In developing your project plan, consider: 1.Who are your project’s stakeholders? 2.What would your role be in planning and delivering the project? 3.How would you ensure that your project met organisational objectives? 4.What resources would you need and how would you source them? 5.Why should you and how would you consult with team members in the planning stage of the project and throughout the project’s implementation? 6.How would you monitor the quality of outcomes? 7.How would you ensure that you met project timelines? 8.What project management tools would you use and why would they be most useful? 9.How and why would you delegate roles and tasks? 10.How would you design and develop risk management and contingency plans and cater for any health and safety issues? 11.What methods would you use to clarify roles, responsibilities...
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...+ PROJECT MANAGEMENT Fundamentals + Definitions A project ? Unique A start An end Deliverables Resources Environment + Let’s drill down… OPERATIONS PROJECT PROGRAM PORTFOLIO + Key parameters SCOPE + Recipe - Skilled individuals, with an approved & supported mission. - Usage of a structured & shared methods - Usage of iterative processes to deliver expected deliverables + Challenges Fuzzy goals No shared understanding of the situation No support Irealistic state of mind (politics…) top-down without bottom up Lack of resource management Multiple changes in the direction Lack of communication No standard process + initiation Initiate some communication with the stakeholders Draft a first version of the POS (Project Objective Statement) Draft a first version of the priority matrix + Initiation Initiate some communication with the stakeholders What do we want to address ? Opportunity / threat ? What is the foreseen deadline ? What are the resources ? Where is our priority, what are our constraints ? (scope, time, resource) ? + Initiation One vision: «I believe this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is over, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth....$531 million in this fiscal year « May 25, 1961 POS: The USA will send a man to the moon and return him safely to the...
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...Chapter 3 Planning the Project This chapter begins by discussing the nine key elements of the project plan. The following two sections address the planning process in greater detail with considerable emphasis placed on the project launch meeting and the hierarchical planning process by which parts of the plan are sequentially broken down into finer levels of detail. This provides a natural transition to the creation of the Work Breakdown Structure. Finally, the chapter is concluded with a discussion of multidisciplinary teams including the topics of integration management and concurrent engineering. Cases and Readings Some cases appropriate to the subject of this chapter are: Harvard: 9-692-058 Taco Bell Corp. This 31-page best-selling case describes a project to implement a new strategic plan involving major changes in layout, staffing, quality, product design, and information systems. The coordination and integration of all these project activities is what makes the plan successful, and hard for competitors to imitate. Two teaching notes are available for this case: 5-692-091 (20 pages) and 5-196-073 (12 pages). Harvard: 9-694-059 Hardcard Project: Plus Development Corp. (A1); 9-694-060 Hardcard Project: Plus Development Corp. (A2) This 10-page (12-pages for A2) case allows the students to evaluate, using Microsoft Project software, the time line, resource allocations, and other aspects of a major project concerned with developing a hard disk drive...
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...role in project management. The planning process group is used to identify everything that is going to happen with the project. There are ten different sections of this group that need to be identified when taking on a project. First you will need to develop a project plan that defines the project itself. This process group is used by over 20 different processes like control risks and schedule management. This makes this process group a vital process group. This group is created by using and review the project charter, and by utilizing many different outputs like the cost management plan, and the communication management plan. Next section consists of the scope management plan, collect requirements, define scope, and create WBS. The scope management plan shows how the project is defined, controlled, and validated. The collect requirements part of this section is used to understand the needs and expectations of the stakeholders. This can be done for example by interviews or prototyping. The define scope part of this section is used for defining the project scope by using the project scope statement. The create WBS part of this section is used for dividing the scope into smaller pieces this way it is more manageable. The third section of the planning process group is the planning and managing your schedule section. This section consist of plan schedule management, define activities, sequence activities, estimate activities resources, estimate activity duration, and develop a schedule...
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...Chapter 3 Planning the Project This chapter begins by discussing the nine key elements of the project plan. The following two sections address the planning process in greater detail with considerable emphasis placed on the project launch meeting and the hierarchical planning process by which parts of the plan are sequentially broken down into finer levels of detail. This provides a natural transition to the creation of the Work Breakdown Structure. Finally, the chapter is concluded with a discussion of multidisciplinary teams including the topics of integration management and concurrent engineering. Cases and Readings Some cases appropriate to the subject of this chapter are: Harvard: 9-692-058 Taco Bell Corp. This 31-page best-selling case describes a project to implement a new strategic plan involving major changes in layout, staffing, quality, product design, and information systems. The coordination and integration of all these project activities is what makes the plan successful, and hard for competitors to imitate. Two teaching notes are available for this case: 5-692-091 (20 pages) and 5-196-073 (12 pages). Harvard: 9-694-059 Hardcard Project: Plus Development Corp. (A1); 9-694-060 Hardcard Project: Plus Development Corp. (A2) This 10-page (12-pages for A2) case allows the students to evaluate, using Microsoft Project software, the time line, resource allocations, and other aspects of a major project concerned with developing a hard disk drive. ...
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...Project Deliverable 6: Final Project Plan CIS 590 Directed Research Project 6/15/15 Table of Contents 1. Project Plan Overview 1.1 Background 1.2 Project Description 1.3 Goals and Objectives 1.4 Scope 1.5 Roles and Responsibilities 1.6 Constraints and Assumptions 1.7 Risks 1.8 Project Deliverables 2. Project Work Plan 2.1 Work Breakdown Structure 2.2 Staffing Plan 2.3 Project Schedule 2.4 Project Budget 3. Solution Provider 4. Database and Data warehousing 5. Infrastructure and Security 6. Appendix The Project Plan defines the following: 0 Background 1 Project Description 2 Business and project goals and objectives 3 Scope 4 Roles and responsibilities 5 Assumptions and constraints 6 Project budget 7 Project timeline 8 The conceptual design of new technology 1. Project Plan Overview 1.1 Background Information is a significant component of any trusted business activity. Information is useful across the entire organization for number of purposes and is stored in an assortment of information systems. Modification to any of these information systems must be firmly controlled and managed to evade those loss of important information that cannot be recovered. System...
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...responsibilities for a Project Manager is to refine the WBS into further detail developing the baseline schedule and define the Schedule Management Plan. The initial WBS, developed during the Concept Development Phase, will define specific work activities; activities sequence, estimate resources, and estimate duration that will need to complete the project. The refined WBS will be used to develop an initial, baseline schedule. The Schedule Management Plan establishes the specific procedures for how the project schedule will be managed and controlled and is as detailed as necessary to control the schedule through the life cycle based on the size, risk profile, and complexity of the project. The Project Manager should consider the six schedule management processes described below in the development of the schedule baseline and the Schedule Management Plan. The development of the schedule baseline will involve activity definition, activity sequencing, activity resource estimation, and activity duration estimation. The Schedule Management Plan should be focused on the methods for controlling the schedule. Define Activities – identification of the specific work activities that need to be performed to complete the project. Although preliminary activity definition begins in the Concept Development Phase, this definition is further refined during the Planning Phase to ensure that all activities are defined in detail. The Planning Team creates a more detailed WBS, develops an initial, baseline...
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...Task 1: Define Project and Develop Plan Project Brief Project Title MAX LIONEL REALTY – TEST IMPLEMENTATION Project purpose Business Objectives for the project are: - Define the needed functions of clients, tenants and potential tenants of MLR’s commitments - Implement a test MLR obligations and commitment to best-of breed client services - Make recommendations and develop a project plan for a legal and ethical obligations - Report to all stakeholders in an annual meeting Background and strategic context In order to build customer goodwill and satisfy the legal and ethical obligations, MLR has decided to implement a program to: - inform agents of legal and ethical obligations and any standards or codes of conduct followed by the organization - promote high standards in professional conduct - inform clients, tenants and potential tenants of MLR’s commitments - achieve employee and clients buy-in for initiative Priority This project is prioritized to agents, clients and tenants Related projects This project is related to other projects including Construction project, house-keeping project Project client/owner The project clients are agents highly trained and competent in selling and managing real estate, clients who are not sure of MLR obligations and tenants who sometimes feel discriminated against on basis of lifestyle, cultural background and so on. Project sponsor This project is directly sponsored by MLR Project manager ...
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...Activity 1 1. Project management is the application of knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to meet project requirements. Project management is accomplished through the application and integration of the project management processes of initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling and closing. Managing a project is best described as consistently producing key results expected by stakeholders. While all stake holders are important, it is of prime importance to meet the customer’s needs and requirements. 2. Project Integration Management Project Scope Management Project Time Management Project Cost Management Project Quality Management Project Management Project Human Resource Management Project Communications Management Project Risk Management Project Management Project Procurement Management 3. A project management office (PMO) is an organizational unit to centralize and coordinate the management of projects under its domain. A PMO can also be referred as to a program management office, project office or program office. A PMO oversees the management f projects, programs or a combination of both. The projects supported or administered by a PMO might not be related other than by being managed together. Some PMO’s do coordinate and manage related projects. In many organizations those projects are grouped or related in some manner based on the way the PMO will coordinate and manage those projects. 4. Objective A project objective is a...
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...City University of Hong Kong Interim Report of IS5540 Project management for AE Company Group name: SGS Instructor: Chiamin Fung Section: S01 AUTHOR’S NAME | ID | WANG Youzhi | 53186878 | LI Jingwei | 53259943 | LI Juan | 53434541 | FAN Ting | 53508522 | XU You | 53147066 | XIA Weiwei | 53337821 | 1. Company background Our group choose a company named AE Company, which mainly trains people who want to learn accounting skills, pass tests of Accounting Professional Certificate, etc. AE Company is a new entrants to the accounting training industry, which was established in 2012. The company is mainly divided by three department: customer service department, marketing department and human resources department. At present, AE has three important methods to recruit trainees. Firstly, they organize some public, non-profit lectures in the universities. Secondly, they distribute some commercial publicity pages to advertising the brand. Thirdly, they had distribute some trainee recruitment information on some professional website like 58.com, souke.com and ganji.com. All the people who is over 18-year-old can be the target customer for AE, since every organization including non-profit organizations need accountants. For AE, there is a large market resulting in fierce competition. The company has planned to recruit students from society and universities for 40% and 60% respectively. However, they later found that the percentage of students from universities...
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...series © The Project Management Processes PROJECT MANAGEMENT FOR DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATIONS The Project Management Processes PROJECT MANAGEMENT FOR DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATIONS A methodology to manage development projects for international humanitarian assistance and relief organizations © IMPACTO4DEV 2007 Our eBook is provided free of charge on the condition that it is not copied, modified, published, sold, re-branded, hired out or otherwise distributed for commercial purposes. Please give appropriate citation credit to the authors and to PM4DEV. Feel free to distribute this eBook to any one you like, including peers, managers and organizations to assist their project management activities. www.pm4dev.com The Project Management Processes PROJECT MANAGEMENT PROCESSES Project management is a process of leading a team of capable people in planning and implementing a series of related activities that need to be accomplished on a specific date with a limited budget. Because of its nature, coordinating all these activities requires a process approach. Because many times development project take on unexplored territory, assumptions about the project must be listed, evaluated, its risks assessed and contingency plans developed. It also requires a close monitoring of the budget, scope and schedule to deliver the project objectives under the expected quality. Each one of these elements needs to be managed in a systematic manner with the development of plans to identify...
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...Introduction to Project ManagementCourse Name IIL-IPMIIL-XXX Organizational Diversity: The Project Management Products, Programs, and Projects Let’s define each term in more detail… Products Programs Projects Foundation ConceptsModule Name 1 Introduction to Project ManagementCourse Name IIL-IPMIIL-XXX Managing Products, Programs, and Projects Product Management Direction: Product capabilities, features, profitability, customers Data: Product capabilities, requirements, schedule, costs Program Management Direction: Program-level budget, priorities Data: Project resources, estimates, risks, schedule Project Management Standard Project Management Processes Monitoring & Controlling Processes Planning Processes Initiating Processes Closing Processes Executing Processes PMBOK® Guide – Fourth Edition, p. 40 Foundation ConceptsModule Name 2 Introduction to Project ManagementCourse Name IIL-IPMIIL-XXX Sample Project Life Cycle Define Design & Plan Develop Implement Closeout Across the Project Life Cycle Initiating Process Group G Level of Process Interaction Planning Process Group G Executing Process Group G Monitoring and Control Process Group P G Closing Process Group G Start Define Time Design & Plan Develop Adapted from Figure 3-2, Implement PMBOK® Finish Closeout Guide – Fourth Edition, p. 41 Foundation ConceptsModule Name 3 Introduction to Project ManagementCourse...
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...Information Technology Projects What is the current state of IT projects? What are key factors for successful IT projects? Hint: Refer to the summary of CHAO study IT Projects are showing higher success rates. Better project management tools & processes, smaller projects, improved communication among stakeholders, more skillful IT project managers What are four different approaches to improving the likelihood of success of IT projects? Hint: Understand the major characteristics of each approach. 1. Value-Driven Approach; Plain & Simple: IT Projects must provide value to the organization 2. Socio-technical Approach; It’s not just about the technology or building a better mouse trap 3. Project Management Approach; processes and infrastructure (Methodology), resources, expectations, competition, efficiency and effectiveness 4. Knowledge Management Approach, lessons learned, best practices & shared knowledge What is a project? And its attributes? Project: a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service, or result. Attributes: Time Frame, Purpose (to provide value!), Ownership, Resources (the triple constraint), Roles (Project Manager, Project Sponsor, SME (domain & technical)), Risk & Assumptions, Interdependent Tasks (progressive elaboration – steps & increments), Planned Organizational Change, Operate in Environments Larger than the Project Itself What are different roles in IT projects? Hint: Know the different...
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...Assignment 2: Risk Management Plan ( EQI in SIWA ) https://homeworklance.com/downloads/bus-519-assignment-2-risk-management-plan-eqi-siwa/ Due Week 4 and worth 240 points Note: The assignments are a series of papers that are based on the same case, which is located in the Student Center of the course shell. The assignments are dependent upon one another. In this assignment, you will create a risk management plan. You have a budget of $100,000 and a timeline of six (6) months for the plan. Please refer to Figure A-1, Risk Management Plan Template, from Appendix A of the Hillson and Simon text to create the plan. Write an eight to ten (8-10) page Risk Management Plan Component paper in which you: 1. Prepare the Scope and Objectives of the Risk Management Process section of the Risk Management Plan based on the facts presented in the case study. 2. Determine the project size, based on the facts presented in the case study, and provide justification based on Figure 3-4, Example Project Sizing Tool (Chapter 3 of the Hillson and Simon text). 3. Select the risk tools and techniques, and complete the Risk Tools and Techniques section of the Risk Management Plan for both the qualitative and quantitative aspects of the project. Provide a rationale for the selection. 4. Develop the Risk Reviews and Reporting section of the Risk Management Plan based on the project size previously determined. 5. Define the Probability and Impacts section of the Risk Management Plan and justify the values...
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...Managing a Testing Project: (A White Paper) A White Paper Page 1 of 20 Vinod Kumar Suvarna IBM, Bangalore A White Paper Introduction Testing is expected to consume 30 – 50 % of the Project Effort, Still properly managing testing project is not considered seriously. Project Managers always undermine the impact the testing activity has on the Project Cost and Schedule. Hence the testing activity is usually unplanned and uncontrollable. As the project manager assumes that the main focus of the testing activity in the project is not to meet the project schedule. But Its is a reality that a thorough and close monitoring of the Testing project is required to increase productivity, reduce cycle -time and improve quality. Below pie chart depicts the Project effort distribution by phase for a development project, where independent testing team performs the testing activity. Project Effort Distribution by Phase 21 35 Requirement Design Code & Unit testing Testing 25 19 A White Paper Page 2 of 20 Vinod Kumar Suvarna IBM, Bangalore A White Paper The Problem / Issues / Improvement Opportunity in Hand: Ask a Tester ‘Why he/she needs to burn midnight oil to churn a Quality Product?’ Answer is obvious ‘Needs to put extra time and effort to overcome the Project schedule slippage ‘ Ask a Project Manager ‘Why the Project is in trouble during the last phase?’ Answer is obvious ‘Not Sure, Did not anticipate the dynamic changes effecting the Project’ The White...
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