IT Project Management
ITPMA2
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Week 2: Lesson 1
Introduction
Project Management Process Groups
This Chapter describes the project management process groups progress from initiating
activities to planning activities, executing activities, monitoring and controlling activities, and
closing activities.
What will be covered
in today’s lesson?
Project Management
Week Process Groups
3 Developing an IT Project
Lesson Management Methodology
1 Scrum Methodology
Case Study
Problem-Based
Learning
Identify and explain the five process
groups and giving your own example for
each.
What is the purpose of the Initiating
process group?
What happens during the Planning
process group?
What are some of the key outputs of each
process group?
Activity- Process Groups
Briefly describe what happens in each of the five project
management process groups (initiating, planning,
executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing). What
types of activities occur before initiating a project?
Case Study-
• Closing Case- Erica Bell (Prescribed Textbook
Chapter 3)
• Commend Erica and team effort on the
project? What went well and what
improvements can be made?
• Source: (Schwalbe, 2019, p143)
Case Study-What
went wrong
Organizations that excel in project management complete 89 percent of their
projects successfully compared to only 36 percent of organizations that do not
have good project management processes. PMI estimates that poor project
performance costs over $109 million for every $1 billion invested in projects
and programs.
Very large, complex projects often benefit the most from using proven project
management methodologies. Several well-respected companies teamed up to
bid on a multibillion dollar military health-record contract in 2015. IBM and
Epic proposed running an instance of the Epic health-record system (the most
popular system on the market) on a secure, IBM-operated data center.
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) worked with Google to provide a solution
based on an open-source version of the Vista health-record system used by
the Department of Veterans Affairs.10 The contract was awarded to the Leidos
Partnership for Defense Health—which includes Cerner, an electronic-health-
records manager; Accenture Federal; and Leidos, a government contractor
based in Reston, Virginia. Their MHS Genesis system has been implemented in
many organizations by 2018. If this huge contract is managed well, it will save
taxpayers over $1.2 billion in potential wasted dollars.
Source: (Schwalbe, 2019)
• How does the use of proven methodologies ensure project success. Search
for examples of successful IT projects
Activity- Project initiation
Describe the process of initiating a project and the issues involved.
Activity- Methodology
What is a methodology and what are some methodologies other than
the PMBOK Guide do organizations use as a basis for project
management methodology?].
Problem-Based
Learning
In the Scrum method, what role is played
by the ScrumMaster?
What is a work breakdown structure? Give
an example.
What is a team charter and why is it
important for the success of a project?
What are some of the key outputs of each
process group?
What Happens
Next?
•Chapter 5 –Scope Management
