University of Sunderland Professionalism and Personal Skills Unit 11 Professionalism and Personal Skills Lecture 14: Project Management

University of Sunderland Professionalism and Personal Skills Unit 11 Objectives Introduction to Project Management Introduction to team development and group roles Understand relevance of Task Identification and allocation Planning Schedules and identifying Deliverables Understanding Gantt Charts Summary

University of Sunderland Professionalism and Personal Skills Unit 11 Introduction What is ‘Teamwork’? What is the difference between a ‘Team’ and a ‘Group’? But why have a Team?

University of Sunderland Professionalism and Personal Skills Unit 11 Introduction So what do Teams do? What do we mean by a ‘Project’?

University of Sunderland Professionalism and Personal Skills Unit 11 Team Development Model Dr, Bruce Tuckman's published in 1965 his Forming Storming Norming Performing team-development model He added a fifth stage, Adjourning, in the 1970s. Alan Chapman website.

University of Sunderland Professionalism and Personal Skills Unit 11 Team Development Model Forming Storming Norming Performing Adjourning

University of Sunderland Professionalism and Personal Skills Unit 11 The Belbin Team Roles The personal skill inventory identifies eight team roles. There is also another team role called the Specialist which is not identified in the questionnaire.

University of Sunderland Professionalism and Personal Skills Unit 11 The Belbin Team Roles Shaper (SH) Co-ordinator (CO) Plant (PL) Resource Investigator (RI) Monitor Evaluator (ME) Implementer (IMP) Team Worker (TW) Completer ‑ Finisher (CP) Specialist

University of Sunderland Professionalism and Personal Skills Unit 11 The Belbin Team Roles Set implicit ground rules People bring assumptions

University of Sunderland Professionalism and Personal Skills Unit 11 The Belbin Team Roles Agreed Tasks Members encourage contributions from everyone Roles should be clearly allocated Each person has the right to point out when these rules are being broken.

University of Sunderland Professionalism and Personal Skills Unit 11 The Belbin Team Roles Discuss how it is going All teams have problems Check list

University of Sunderland Professionalism and Personal Skills Unit 11 Control Loop

University of Sunderland Professionalism and Personal Skills Unit 11 Steps in Planning a Project Define the TASKS Resource the Plan

University of Sunderland Professionalism and Personal Skills Unit 11 What Are Tasks? How do we decide how to divide a project into tasks? As well as having a deliverable, a task should have a single, well-defined operation to achieve the outcome.

University of Sunderland Professionalism and Personal Skills Unit 11 Tasks How long should a task take? Ensure work is done in a sensible sequence How often should we measure progress?

University of Sunderland Professionalism and Personal Skills Unit 11 Gantt Chart

University of Sunderland Professionalism and Personal Skills Unit 11 Worth noting…… You have to use the plan (and modify it) to control the project You can use project management in a team BUT you can also use it to control your own individual work

University of Sunderland Professionalism and Personal Skills Unit 11 Schedules A Key Project Planning Technique Effective Scheduling

University of Sunderland Professionalism and Personal Skills Unit 11 Schedules

University of Sunderland Professionalism and Personal Skills Unit 11 Tasks At it is simplest: – a list of the activities needed to ensure the project hits all its targets

University of Sunderland Professionalism and Personal Skills Unit 11 Deliverables Products created by the project –Something tangible

University of Sunderland Professionalism and Personal Skills Unit 11 Gantt Chart

University of Sunderland Professionalism and Personal Skills Unit 11 Summary Introduction to Project Management Introduction to team development and group roles Understand relevance of Task Identification and allocation Planning Schedules and identifying Deliverables Understanding Gantt Chart