...Phase 2 DB 1 MPM210-1404A-06 Project Management Overview Oct 15, 2014 Dr. G. Whenever something has to be accomplished or a project started, most people start thinking before they begin the project with an idea of how they are going to accomplish it. This can vary from the easiest ways to do it to the more complicated ways to how much it is going to cost. Whoever is paying for the endeavor is usually the one that comes up with the idea of what is to be done and a little about how it is going to be accomplished. In the project management world; this person would be called the sponsor and the person accomplishing the actual project details or making it happen would be the project manager. Here I will look at what is detailed in the project charter from the sponsor and the scope statement for the project manager. The project charter is very important because it details certain things for the project manager. The first thing it does is that it formally authorizes the work to be accomplished and gives the project his or her authority to do their job. The project charter will also describe the business need for the project and its expectations or results needed. This charter is usually written outside of the project manager team who can make sure the needs of the project are available for the project manager. Along with the charter, it may also include key assumptions or constraints that could affect the project schedule, budget or quality. It may also contain target...
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...Learning Objective • To apply the concepts of project and project manager to authentic situations • To reflect on the applicability of the concepts of project and project manager to a student’s project PART A (PROJECTS) (700-1100 words) - (35 marks) You have learnt the key characteristics of projects in Topic 1 of this unit. Part A requires you to apply this knowledge and any further research to a real project. I. Select and describe ONE project that is in the media. Justify why you consider it to be a project (400-500 words) (20 marks) II. Go to ONE organisation’s website (but not your employer) and identify and describe ONE project it has or will be undertaking. Explain: a. the change this project will bring about (150-300 words) (10 marks) b. how the project links to the organisation’s goals (150-300 words) (10 marks) PART B (PROJECT MANAGER) (1200-1700 words) (65 marks) There is extensive literature on the desirable skills/traits/characteristics/personalities for an effective project manager. I. Describe THREE traits/characteristics/personalities, based on academic references. You must have at least 5 references in answering this question (900-1200 words) (45 marks) II. Completing your project management degree at Curtin University is a project and you are the project manager. Reflect on how each of these traits/characteristics/personalities will help you be successful in completing your degree project references (300-500 words) (15 marks)...
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...* Table of Contents 1 Introduction 2 2 The meaning of “project” 2 3 Project stakeholders 4 4 Meaning of project management 5 5 Factors influence on project 5 6 Project management theory 6 7 Project Management Tools and Technique 7 7.1 Cost benefit analysis (CBA) 7 7.2 Gantt chart 8 7.3 Work breakdown structure (WBS) 9 8 Project management software (PMS) 10 9 TQM 11 10 Critical Path Method (CPM) 11 11 Management by Objectives 11 12 Conclusion 12 13 References 12 14 Bibliography 13 Appendix A : Nine Project Management Areas 14 Appendix B : Project lifecycle 17 Appendix C :Common project Management tools and Techniques 19 OVERVIEW OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT TOOLS AND CONCEPTS IN A HOSPITALITY & TOURISM ORGANIZATION Introduction Project management (PM) facilitates to a structured approach to managing projects for project managers. PM reduces risk and provides assurance by providing tools at the same time environment to plan, observe, track, and deal with schedules, quality as well as resource.PM can be applied into both soft and hard projects such as personnel projects, IT, construction, finance, sports, and event planning, HR etc. Project management gives advantages like; a. Better control of financial, physical, and human resources b. Improved customer relations c. Shorter development times d. Lower costs e. Higher quality and increased reliability f. Higher profit margins ...
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...Samsung Overview II. Introduction to the Global Strategy Group (GSG) III. GSG & You IV. Korea & Seoul I. Samsung Overview I. Samsung Overview (Revenue & Global Presence) Fast growth and vast global footprint Samsung Group Revenue ※ Billion US Dollars Global Operations 318 369,000 employees worldwide 510 offices and facilities in 79 countries 141 87 226 Electronics 80 Samsung 22 1997 2005 2012 4 I. Samsung Overview (Leading Products) 5 I. Samsung Overview (Leading Products) 6 I. Samsung Overview (Brand Value) Samsung ranked 9th among global companies in 2012 7 I. Samsung Overview (Total 29 Affiliates Companies) The Samsung Group consists of many different business units Electronics Industry Electronics Engineering & Heavy Industry C&T Corporation Engineering Financial Services Life Insurance Fire & Marine Insurance Samsung Card Securities Asset Management Venture Investment Chemical Cheil Industries Inc. Petrochemical Fine Chemicals BP Chemicals Total Other Companies Cheil Worldwide Everland Inc. The Shilla Hotels & Resorts Economics Research Institute S1 Corporation Medical Center BioLogics SDS Heavy Industries Electro-Mechanics Techwin SDI Display Corning Precision Glass Bioeps 7 Affiliates 3 Affiliates 6 Affiliates 5 Affiliates 8 Affiliates 8 I. Samsung Overview (SEC Biz. Division) HME : Health Medical Equipments 9 I. Samsung Overview (SEC Set...
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...TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Introduction 5 1.1 Why Asset Management is Important? 5 1.2 Organisational Commitment 5 1.3 Progress Made 6 1.4 Strategic Linkages 6 1.5 Organisational Asset Management Linkages 6 1.6 Key Stakeholders 7 1.7 Issues 7 2 Demand management 7 2.1 Overview 7 2.5 Teaching Spaces 10 2.6 Consideration of Capacity – Supply vs Demand 11 3 Levels of service 12 3.1 Overview 12 3.2 Strategic Levels of Service 12 3.3 Tactical Levels of Service 13 3.4 Operational Levels of Service 13 3.5 External Level of Service Requirements 14 4 Asset description – knowing what we have 14 4.1 Overview 14 4.2 Asset Values 14 4.3 Building Description 15 4.4 Building Risk Profile 15 4.5 Building Functionality 15 4.6 Building Availability and Utilisation 16 4.7 Building Condition 16 4.8 Environmental Performance 17 5 Challenges and investments 17 5.1 Overview 17 5.2 Shortfalls – Educational Service Needs 17 5.3 Currently Funded Projects 18 5.4 Responses to Significant Known Challenges 18 6 Optimised Decision Making 19 6.1 Optimised Decision Making Framework 19 6.2 Significant Projects 19 6.3 Likelihood of Events Happening 19 6.4 What Controls Can Be Put Into Place 20 6.5 Prioritisation and Decision Making Process 20 7 Financial forecasts 20 7.1 Overview 20 7.2 Long Term Capital Forecasts 20 7.3 Consequential...
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...MGT/437 Project Management Paper In the vastly changing business world, many organizations have found that it is important to implement project management into the organizational strategy. Environmental conditions like a hike in salaries, lack of borrowing power, increasing prices for raw materials, stockholder pressure, and inflation are contributors to the environmental condition. Executives in the past have ease the impact of environmental conditions by implementing cost reduction programs but have found that obtaining better control and better use of the organizations resources, and looking internally for solutions works best in solving organizational problems. What is a Project? A project is any planned set of interrelated tasks identifiable and essential pieces of a job serving as a unit of work that differentiates between the various components of a project. The interrelated tasks involved means completion within a fixed time, and maintained within the costs of an organizations materials, resources, time, and utility consumption, risks, and forgone opportunities of production and delivery of a good or service. A project requires functions lines of the organization to be multifunctional in successful completion of a project. What are the Basic Phases of the Project lifecycle and their purposes? The project lifecycle includes five basic phases. The first is the defining or conceptualization of a project phase. The objective of this phase...
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...Standard Operating Procedure Personal Finance Project Team Author/s: | Lucille Olivier | Document Ref: | SOP | Creation Date: | 13 September 2011 | Version: | 1.0 | Last Updated: | 13 September 2011 | Table of Contents 1. Introduction 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Purpose 1.3 Project Framework 1.4 Project definition, prioritisation and approval 1.5 Project Process 2. Initiation Phase – The Needs Analysis Process 2.1 Initiating a Project 2.2 Stakeholder Analysis 2.3 Kick Off Meeting 2.4 Functional Specification 2.5 Initiation Phase Overview 3. Validation and Feasibility Phase 3.1 Technical Specification 3.2 Costing 3.3 Reporting Analysis 3.4 Pre Project Plan 3.5 Communication Plan 3.6 Risk Register 4. The Approval Phase * The business case * Motivational Documents 5. The Prioritisation Phase 5.1 The priority matrix 5.2 Resource Scheduling 5.3 The Prioritisation Phase Overview 6. The Execution Phase 6.1 Training plan 6.2 Operations plan 6.3 Communication plan 6.4 The Execution Phase Overview 7. Monitoring and Controlling Phase 7.1 The Monitoring and Controlling Phase Overview 8. The Closure Phase 8.1 Administrative Closure 8.2 Preparing project closeout and lessons learnt 8.3 Recognize and celebrate outstanding project work 8.4 The Closure Phase Overview Introduction * 1.1 Introduction A Standard Operating...
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...EFFECTS OF RISK MANAGEMENT METHODS ON PROJECT PERFORMANCE IN RWANDAN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY A CASE STUDY OF MULTI-STOREYED BUILDINGS CONSTRUCTION PROJECT OF RSSB Systemic project risk management has an effect on the project success. It is found that there is strong relationship between the amount of risk management efforts undertaken in a project and the level of the project success. Several project risk management approaches are proposed as follows; i.e., (PRAM, Chapman (1997), RAMP, Thomas (2002), PMBOK (2008), RMS, a risk management (2002) etc. Pejman (2012) Existing approaches may be summarized into a four phase process for effective project risk management, i.e., (identifying risks, assessing risks, responding risks, and monitoring and/or reviewing risks. Nerija (2012) The overview of definitions which can be found in literature regarding those two terms implies that uncertainty is a broad concept and risk is a part of it. This confirms close relation between those two concepts but at the same time distinguishes them. In the following chapters, the focus is on risk itself and how it should be handled. Uncertain is not a tangible term and thus will not be further developed in this report. The PMBOK (2004) listed the following strategies or techniques for managing risks in the construction projects; avoid (extending schedule, reducing scope, shutting down the project),transfer (Financial risk exposure, insurance, warranties, guarantees);mitigate(taking early actions...
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...Project Plan Outline 1.0 Goals and Objectives This section presents a general description of the project along with any general or technical constraints and/or considerations. Please include the sub-sections below. 1. Project name 2. Business goals and project goals 3. Scope 4. Time and budget constraints 5. General and technical requirements 6. Training and documentation 7. Installation 2.0 Project Estimates This section presents a set of estimates for the completion of the project, including people, hardware and software. Please include the following sub-sections. 1. People costs a. Historical or researched data used for estimates (Requires annotation listing where you got this information) b. Salary requirements 2. Equipment costs (Requires costs for all hardware and software used. It is assumed that all hardware and software will be new). a. Hardware b. Software 3. Estimation techniques and results a. Process-based (use the format shown in section 1.2.1 of the lecture) b. Second method c. Triangulation results 3.0 Project Schedule This section presents an overview of project tasks and the output of a project scheduling tool. The following sub-sections should be included: 3.1 Project task list The tasks that have been selected for the project are presented in this section. 3.2 Task network Project tasks and their dependencies are noted in this diagrammatic form. 3.3 Timeline chart A project timeline chart (Gantt chart) is presented...
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...TERM PAPER: Risk management in software engineering CSC 532 Advanced Software Engineering Vijaya Sankar Karri Louisiana Tech University Table of contents Abstract Page No 1. Introduction 1 2. Risk Management Concepts 2 3. Framework Overview 3 4. The principles of risk management 4 5. Risk management in project management 5 6. Conclusion 5 7. References 6 Term Paper ------------------------------------------------- Vijaya Sankar Karri RISK MANAGEMENT vsk007@latech.edu Abstract Basically in software engineering risk management is an important part of project management. This term paper gives a detail introduction to the risk management concepts, overview of a framework. The main goal of the risk management framework is to reduce the chances of uncertain events, and to maintain all possible outputs under tight management. Risk management has to making judgments about various types of risk, software development risk, operational risk, and information security risk etc. The risk management framework is mainly intended for risk management principles for improving the quality of software development. 1. Introduction Even if most of the organizations uses risk management framework while developing software development system. The framework is used as a foundation for comprehensive risk management methodology and it also provide help...
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...Lahore School of Economics Course: Management: Policy and Practice (MGT 503) Semester: Winter Semester 2012 Part- I Class: MBA for Professionals I Sec B Course Instructor: Usamah Iyyaz Billah (email: usamahbillah@yahoo.com ) Class Day & Timings: Sunday: 12:45 PM - 02:45 PM + 3.00PM - 5.00PM SYLLABUS 1. Introduction to Case Study Method: The case study method is radically different from traditional teaching methods. Students will learn the basic rules of an Oral Case Analysis Presentations as well as how to prepare and present Written Analysis for comprehensive management cases. 2. Defining the Managers Terrain: What is a management function, roles and kills? Universality of Management. A brief History of Management. Organizational Culture and Environment. Classifying managers and nominal employees. How the work done by managers is important for the organizations and how difficult it is to be a good manager who carries Social Responsibility and Good Ethics. 3. Planning: Managers as Decision makes, Decision making Process. Classifying decisions and decision making conditions. Techniques for effective decision making. Foundation of Planning. Setting goals/objectives and developing plans. Strategic management and planning. 4. Organizing: Organizational structure and design. Functional, geographic, product, process, customer departmentalization. Chain of command and span of control. Decisions involved...
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...Operations Management Session 1 – Introduction & Overview Business Services – Operations Management Session 1 – Introduction & Overview Facilitator: Dr. Jonathan Farrell 1 This Evening’s Program Introductions Unit outline Lecture - Introduction to Operations Management Case Studies – Concept Design Services, Central Evaluation Unit class discussion • Little’s Law Little’ • • • • 2 1 Business Services – Operations Management Session 1 – Introduction & Overview Plagiarism • • • • • Plagiarism: “using the work of another person and presenting it as your own” If you use any source material from another source (e.g. text graphics, charts, diagrams, etc.) you must acknowledge that source Contrary to popular belief, Plagiarism is easy to detect Your assignments will be checked for plagiarism, both manually and electronically For more information, go to www.student.mq.edu.au/plagiarism 3 Introductions (1 minute maximum) • • • • • Name Organisation Position Type of operation Why are you here? 4 2 Business Services – Operations Management Session 1 – Introduction & Overview Course Objectives Gain an appreciation of technologies available, and how they are applied to operations. Develop an ability to integrate these technologies with corporate and operations strategies. Recognise how successful operations management can lead to Recognis operations sustainable competitive advantage. dvantage. Understand the dynamics of change management and the...
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...Tesla Motors Portfolio, Program and Project Management Course Project Contents Introduction 3 Organization’s Strategic Plan 3 Organization Strategic Capacity Plan 4 Portfolio Management Process 8 Project Selection Process 15 Program Management Plan 17 Risk Management Plan 20 Change Management 21 Resource Utilization Plan 24 Personnel 24 Production Line 25 Inventory 25 Charts and Graphs 26 Organizational Influence Chart 26 Project Selection Process Flowchart 27 Conclusion 27 Reference: 29 Introduction Tesla Motors designs and manufactures the most advanced electric vehicles and electric power trains in the world. Tesla Motors do not compromise on innovation, performance, or appeal. Nor does Tesla Motors compromise commitment to hiring and developing the best from around the world. Tesla Motors work in small, focused teams, which much like our products are agile, efficient, and focused on excellence. Tesla Motors are driven by work that contributes to a global impact and are passionate about our future in the automotive industry. The pace is fast, the work is stimulating, structure is limited, and innovation is expected. Tesla Motors is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, runs satellite offices in Los Angeles and Maidenhead, UK, and operates retail locations around the world. Whatever location you choose, you'll be surrounded by the best of the best, working together to impact the future of transportation. Tesla Motors is committed...
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...[Overview of R&D Evaluation Methods] 4/27/2015 Strategic Cost Management 1 Background- Strategic Management in R&D • Traditionally R&D Division in any company as been a part of Company’s overhead. • The investment in R&D has been strategically planned to be an “X”% of the sales or the profits achieved by the company. • The financial Matrix for an R&D organization has been poorly defined. • With recent stress on innovation, R&D is back in focus. • A lot of cost cutting measures and Product differentiation methods are now being tracked through R&D divisions through out USA. 4/27/2015 2 Benefits of R&D evaluation programs • Generate additional important information for continuous product improvement. • Document knowledge base and prevent silo operation. • Document research model to prevent repetition of previous unsuccessful models. • Develop systematic cost effective model . • The focus of R&D evaluation program would be on non-financial strategic allignment. 4/27/2015 3 R&D Evaluation programs: NonFinancial benefits • Increase overall efficiency and quality of an research program • Align R&D focus with the corporate strategic goal. • Promote innovation • Co-relate past efforts with the future to reduce down time. 4/27/2015 4 R&D Evaluation programs: NonFinancial benefits • Increase overall efficiency and quality of an research program • Align R&D focus with the corporate strategic goal. • Promote innovation ...
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...DOCUMENT TEMPLATES FOR STUDENT PROJECTS IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING Declan Delaney and Stephen Brown Department of Computer Science, National University of Ireland, Maynooth Date: August 2002 Technical Report: NUIM-CS-TR2002-05 Abstract This technical report outlines the contents of a minimal set of software development documents, tailored for use by students in software engineering projects, and firmly based on IEEE standards. The document set is designed to support software development activities. It provides a framework for use in undergraduate software engineering projects, both individual and team-based, that helps students to learn best practice. A supplementary report describes the content of each document in more detail. 1. Background. Projects form an important part of the education of software engineers. They form an active method of teaching, as defined by Piaget, leading to a "training in self-discipline and voluntary effort" [1], which is important to software engineering professionals. Two purposes served by these projects are: education in professional practice, and outcomes-based assessment, as identified in the ACM/IEEE Computing Curricula 2001 [2]. An infrastructure must be provided whereby the students are well guided in their learning, yet have an opportunity to display their individual achievements for the purposes of assessment. This corresponds to the ‘ integrational’ and ‘ differential’ modes of education as described by Cook in ...
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