Fundamentals of Project Planning and Management Module 1 Slide Handout
Fundamentals of
Project Planning and
Management
Week 1: Let’s get things started!
Yael Grushka-Cockayne
Course Project
What is a Define the project Organization and Project
Week 1 Overview and
and objectives
Success and
Project? stakeholders Life-Cycle
Objectives Failure
What if I
Purpose and What is the
Detailed What are How do we don’t like the
Week 2 Misuse of a Critical
Scoping Dependencies? Schedule? plan? Making
project plan Path?
changes
What is Risky Identifying and Schedule Risk Schedule Risk
Cost Risk Planning for
about Assessing Analysis Analysis
Week 3 Analysis Ambiguity
projects? Project Risks 1 2
From Plan to Agile, Scrum and
Earned Value Those who execute Course Wrap Up
Action Kanban
Week 4
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Fundamentals of
Project Planning and Management
Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4
Lets Get
things Developing It’s a Risky Ready, Set,
Started! Plans World Go!
Fundamentals of
Project Planning and Management
Week 1
Week 2 Week 3 Week 4
Define and
Plan Improve Plan Execute
Organize
Project Goal Project Modes of
The Three Scoping Assessing Execution
Objectives Dependencies Risks and
and their Planning for
Priorities Schedule Ambiguity And those
Trade-Offs who execute
Organization
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Fundamentals of
Project Planning and Management
Week 1
Define and
Organize
Project Goal
The Three
Objectives
and their
Priorities
Organization
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What do all these have in Common?
• Create a specific and unique product or service
• Temporary:
o Specific start and finish
o Temporary organization
• Require multi-disciplinary coordination
• Constrained by time, cost or resources
What is a Project?
• “A unique set of activities meant to produce a defined
outcome within an established time framing specific
allocation of resources.” (Harvard Business Review)
• “A project is a temporary endeavour undertaken to create a
unique product or service.” (Project Management Institute)
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What is not a Project?
Why does it matter?
• With the appropriate set of tools we can execute better
• Projects and Processes:
• Different objectives
• Different criteria for success
• Projects are not unique in being unique
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Project Definition
• What is the Goal?
• The three objectives:
• Scope
• Time
• Budget
• Establish Organization
Three Project Objectives
Scope
Time Budget
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Three Project Objectives
Scope
Time Budget
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Objectives – Priorities
Scope Time Budget
Constrained X
Optimize X
Compromise X
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Example 1: Service/Website
Scope Time Budget
Constrained
Optimize
Compromise
Example 2: Wedding
Scope Time Budget
Constrained
Optimize
Compromise
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Lloyd Dobbie, UK
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Example 3: New Facility and product
development
Scope Time Budget
Constrained
Optimize
Compromise
Image Credit
Hillary Lewis, Lumi
Project Organization and Stakeholders
• Who will be doing the work?
• Who is the Project Manager?
• Who is paying for the project?
• Who will consume the product or service?
• Who are those effected by the project?
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Project Organization and Stakeholders
Identify
Stakeholders
Implement
Stakeholder Gather
Management Information
Strategy
Predict Identify
Stakeholder Stakeholders’
Behavior Mission
Determine
Strengths and
Weaknesses (Cleland and King, 1988)
Stakeholder Management Cycle: Lumi Juice Plant
Example
Identify
Stakeholders
Implement
Stakeholder Gather
Management Information
Strategy
Predict Identify
Stakeholder Stakeholders’
Behavior Mission
Determine
Strengths and
Weaknesses
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Stakeholder Management Cycle: Lumi Juice Plant
Example
Gather
Information
Identify Healthy Eating!
Stakeholder Organic and
Strategy Safe!
Determine
Strengths and
Weaknesses Image Credit: Simon Shek, Flickr.com
Stakeholder Power/Interest Grid
High Power
Keep Manage
Satisfied Closely
Low interest High interest
Keep
Monitor
Informed
(Freeman, 1983)
Low Power
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Horror Stories (Not Hard to Find)
Main Reasons for Failure
• Little or no planning: no clear goal, scope or estimated timeline
• Lack of leadership and commitment by stakeholders
• Lack of training on new technology
• No lessons learned from historical projects
• Lack of proper project management training
• Biases: optimism, sunk costs, confirmation
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Four Bases for Successful Projects
Technology
High tech
Low tech
Complexity Novelty
Array Assembly Derivative Breakthrough
Regular
Blitz
(Shenrhar and Dvir, 2007)
Pace
Measuring Success
Deliver initial set of deliverables?
Does the outcome, at completion, satisfy the
customer?
On time? Over or under budget?
By how much?
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Project Life-Cycle
Initiate Plan Execute Close
•Establish •Identify Scope •Monitor •Sign off
organization •Identify tasks, •Communicate •Conduct a
•Project Charter dependencies and report formal post-
and Definition and schedule •Correct and mortem
•Plan resources control
•Clarify trade-
offs and
decision
making
principles
•Develop a risk
management
plan
Project Life-Cycle
Initiation Planning Execution Close-out
Execution
Initiation Planning Execution Close-out
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The StageGate™ Process
Discovery
STAGE STAGE STAGE
GATE 1 STAGE
GATE 2 GATE 3 GATE
Business 4
Development Testing and Launch
Case Validation
(Cooper and Edgett, 2011)
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