Project Management

 Planning Misconceptions  Planning  Stakeholders  The Project Life Cycle  Initiation  Planning  Project Management Tools  Executing  Monitoring and Controlling  Closing

Project Management Planning, organizing, and managing resources to successfully complete a project –Achieve all project goals –Comply with all project constraints Scope Time Budget

Planning Misconceptions It’s boring It takes too long It’s too hard

Planning The best laid schemes of mice and men often go awry. Robert Burns, Scottish Poet

Planning Planning Questions Where When What Whom How and Why

Stakeholders... all those who are involved, interested in, or affected by the project. “Zombie stakeholders” keep coming back again and again, asking for changes. How can this be avoided?

The Project Life Cycle Planning, Executing, and Controlling form a loop Initiating Closing

Project Life Cycle Architectural Program A written document that describes the design objectives, constraints, and criteria of the building project. Initiation Phase Client Needs analysis Stakeholder input analysis Financial analysis and budget Constraints Architectural program

Project Life Cycle Planning Communications Quality control Human resource management Procurement Cost management Schedule

Project Management Tools Project Organization Chart identifies and organizes everyone involved in the project.

Project Management Tools Gantt Chart: A bar chart representation of a project schedule

Project Tasks... should have value rather than be pointless. should be important to the entire team, not just one member. are more powerful and achievable if they are tied to deliverables. Be ready to articulate the value of any task to team members.

Project Life Cycle Execution Completing project tasks Producing deliverables

Project Life Cycle Monitoring and Controlling Measuring project activities Monitoring project variables Cost Effort Scope Implement corrective action when needed

Project Life Cycle Closing Finalize all project activities Archive files Document lessons learned

Project Management  Planning Misconceptions  Planning  Stakeholders  The Project Life Cycle  Initiation  Planning  Project Management Tools  Executing  Monitoring and Controlling  Closing

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