1. Project management: Planning, directing, and controlling resources (people, equipment, material) to meet the technical, cost, and time constraints of a project.
2. Project Structures:
a. Pure Project: A structure for organizing a project where a self-contained team works full time on the project.
b. Functional Project: in this structure, team members are assigned from the functional units of the organization. The team members remain a part of their functional units and typically are not dedicated to the project.
c. Matrix Project: a structure that blends the functional and pure project structures. Each project uses people from different functional areas. A dedicated project manager decides what tasks need to be performed and when, but the functional managers control which people to use.
3. Work Breakdown Structure: (WBS) The hierarchy of project tasks, subtasks, and work packages.
4. The project planning algorithm: CPM
5. Major Points:
a. Virtually every major organization has numerous projects underway at all times.
b. The work breakdown structure should display a logical division and hierarchy of the elements of a project
c. Three alternative project organizations are pure project, functional, and matrix.
d. The matrix organizational form offers advantages of functional division while maintaining benefits of project responsibility.
e. Critical path scheduling focuses attention on those activities in a project network that are the most critical in completing a project on time. 12
6. Quality: Conformance to requirements (Crosby), A predictable degree of uniformity and dependability at low cost and suited to the market (Deming), Fitness for use (satisfies customers’ needs) (Juran)
7. Total quality management: Managing the entire organization so that it excels on all dimensions of products and services that are important to the customer.
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