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Project Management: This Work Is Licensed Under A License (CC-BY) - Chapter 2: Project Management Overview

This chapter defines a project as a unique product or service that is time-limited and ends when its objectives are achieved or abandoned. It discusses that project success is traditionally defined by being on time, within budget and delivering the promised scope, but that a more effective measure is a satisfied customer. The chapter also outlines the key constraints of a project as being cost, scope, quality, risk, resources and time. It concludes by covering the necessary expertise in project management including application knowledge, understanding the project environment, management knowledge and skills, and interpersonal skills.

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Project Management: This Work Is Licensed Under A License (CC-BY) - Chapter 2: Project Management Overview

This chapter defines a project as a unique product or service that is time-limited and ends when its objectives are achieved or abandoned. It discusses that project success is traditionally defined by being on time, within budget and delivering the promised scope, but that a more effective measure is a satisfied customer. The chapter also outlines the key constraints of a project as being cost, scope, quality, risk, resources and time. It concludes by covering the necessary expertise in project management including application knowledge, understanding the project environment, management knowledge and skills, and interpersonal skills.

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Project Management

Overview

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Purpose of the chapter
• Define a project
• Define project success
• Project constraints
• Project management expertise
• The project environment
• Project management knowledge and skills

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Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY). Chapter 2: Project Management Overview
Define a project
• Define a project:
• Unique product or service
• Time-limited
• Project ends when the objectives are achieved or
abandoned

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Unique
• How can you tell that an activity is unique?
• Completely new product or service
• Creation of new process
• Product or service new to this group of people

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Time-limited
• May have a start and end date
• May be measured as “will be complete when a
particular objective is achieved”
• If it simply continues forever or to an unspecified end-
date it is probably an ongoing business activity

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Can tell when it is done
• Objective is achieved
• Time limit is reached
• Objective is abandoned

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Project Success
• Traditionally: on time, within budget and delivers the
promised scope

• More effective measure: satisfied customer

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Group work
• In small groups, try to identify the LARGEST project
each of you have been involved with.
• You do not have to have been the project manager—if
not, what was your role? (team member, volunteer,
purchaser, ??)
• With the group, make it clear how the project you have
identified meets the criteria:
• Unique
• Temporary

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Project constraints
• Cost
• Scope
• Quality
• Risk
• Resources
• Time

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Triple constraint
• All the constraints can be grouped into these three:

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Project Management Expertise
• Application knowledge
• Industry group
• Technical specialty
• Managerial area
• Understanding the project environment
• Cultural, social, political, international, physical
• Management knowledge and skills
• Interpersonal skills
• Communication, influence, leadership, motivation, negotiation
and problem solving

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Project Management
Standards
• Standards organizations
• PMI
• Project Management Institute: http://www.pmi.org/
• CAPM, PMP and other professional standards
• IPMA
• International Project Management Association: http://ipma.ch/
• Several certifications

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Summary
• Project definition: unique, time-limited, can tell when it
is over
• Project success: satisfied client
• Project constraints: time, scope, cost
• Project management expertise
• The project environment
• Project management knowledge and skills

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Questions?

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