1. PRJ566 : Project Planning and Management Project Initiation Document: Scope, Constraints, Legal, Moral and Ethical Issues, Risk Management

2. Project Initiation Document

5. Constraints  Constraint is a limitation imposed on motion or action

6. Risk Management  A risk is some future happening that results in a change, either positive or negative, to a project  Risk is usually associated with a loss which can be estimated  Estimation is a combination of two factors: The probability that the event will occur The severity of the loss if the event occurs

7. Risk Management  As a project manager, need to mitigate the risk and reduce the loss that could occur  Need to identify the risks, identify the probability they will occur and determine how the losses can be reduced or eliminated  Goes on throughout the whole life cycle of the project.

8. Risk Management Plan Estimate InitiateClose (Re)Schedule Carry out tasks Monitor, adjust Execute For each phase of system development life cycle (SDLC) Risk Management

9. Identifying Risks  Lack of user involvement  Lack of management support  Poor definition of Scope  Lack of proper planning  Unrealistic expectations

10. Identifying Risks  Too much new technology  Lack of required skills  Poor communication  Poor estimating  Poor project management

11. Risk Symptoms  You know you are in trouble when: Scope starts creeping... Time starts to slip…critical path! “This isn’t what I asked for!” (client) “I’m really busy…can we meet later?” (client) “By the way…I can’t afford all that stuff you said you needed...” (client)

12. Risk Response Control  What do you do?

13. Risk Symptoms  You know you are in trouble when: “I don’t want to work with HIM/HER…” (team) “Oops…this isn’t quite how I thought this technology would work…” “I’m too busy to attend the project management meeting….” I’m too busy to fill out time sheets…”

14. Risk Response Control  What do you do?

15. Risk Response Control  Risk tracking - part of project status

16. Risk Management  Types of Projects: Implementing a new POS system in a national retailer Implementing a new online trading system for a financial institution

17. Moral/Ethical/Legal Issues  Moral concerned with the distinction between right and wrong  Ethics treating of moral questions science of human behaviour  Legal Recognized by law

18. Moral/Ethical/Legal Issues  Ethics many professions have a code of ethics, e.g. doctor’s, investment dealers, lawyers, accountants CIPS standards: http://www.cips.ca/ethicshttp://www.cips.ca/ethics Ethics and software development: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/l ibrary/may06/pollice/index.html http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/l ibrary/may06/pollice/index.html

19. Moral/Ethical/Legal Issues

20.  Types of Projects: Online Clinic Implementing a new student records processing system. (Move mainframe-based data to pc servers available online) Implementing a new online trading system for a financial institution