CSSE September.2008 Principles of Project Management Chapter 2, pages This discussion goes with Week 1 Day 1 Quiz

Outline Definition TPM Lifecycle Professional organizations

Definition of Project management A method and set of techniques based on the accepted principles of management used for planning, estimating, and controlling work activities to reach a desired end result on time – within budget and according to specifications.

Standard functions of any manager… Planning Organizing resources Leading Controlling or coordinating  Which of those activities do these Project Managers do themselves? Shanice Cody  If you haven’t read about Shanice and Cody, take a look on like Slide 3 of the previous set or read the Notes area.

TPM life cycle

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Professional organizations CMM ® SWEBOK CSDP/A PMBOK ® PMI OPM3 ®

CMM ® Capability Maturity Model ® Software Engineering Institute (SEI) of Carnegie Mellon University

Source: “Software Engineering Process Group – FY03 ASCAC Representation”, Andrea O. Salas, Joanne L. Walsh, James C. Townsend, Multidisciplinary Optimization Branch, NASA Langley Research Center, September 2003

SWEBOK – What is it? SoftWare Engineering Body of Knowledge  Here’s SWEBOK’s “big picture” of software engineering management:

Where would Project Managers do the work?

CSDP/A Certified Software Development Professional/Associate Based on SWEBOK Taking the CSDA (  see Steve or Will Mathies of RHV. IEEE information: ucation/certification/ ucation/certification/

PMI Project Management Institute( Atlanta) Certify PM Professionals CAPM ® PMP ® PgMP ®

PMBOK ® Project Management Body of Knowledge White paper rd Edition released 31.Oct.2004 IEEE recognized ( 2003_desc.html - need a subscription to get it!) 2003_desc.html Also endorsed by PMI  See following slides.

An example of the PMBOK topics… 2. Scope Management What does "done" look like? What are the units of measure of "done?" How are changes to "done" managed? Who gets to say we're "done?" How much does done cost? How long will it take to "done?"  Discussion: Describe a project you’ve been on where “done” was impossible to define. From

Discussion Question… Who cares more about getting “certified” or “licensed”? Civil engineers Electrical engineers Software engineers Project managers And Why? We’ll come back to these issues later in the course.

PMI has their own process improvement model: OPM3 ® Organizational Project Management Maturity Model Assessing organizational maturity Knowledge Assessment Improvement

OPM3 ® ’s Description of Its Own Knowledge Base The KNOWLEDGE element, found on the web site and in the accompanying OPM3 Knowledge Foundation book, lets organizations uncover hundreds of Best Practices and shows them how to use the information available in OPM3. It’s tied back to PMBOK.

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So – How would you get all this to work in an informal organization? From

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