1. Eleanor Roosevelt High School
Chin-Sung Lin
Project Management

2. Project Management What is a Project? Engineering Design Process
Network Diagrams
Critical Path Method
Gantt Chart

3. What is a Project?

4. What is a Project? One Time Effort Identifiable Start/End Points
Specific Objectives
Multiple Tasks
Resources from Across the Organization
Risk and Uncertainty
Responsibility

5. Personnel Roles Project Sponsor Project Team Leader
Overall responsibility
Champion
Gives approvals
Project Team Leader
Day-to-day responsibility to get project done
Directs the team in the process of the project
Individual Contributor
Contributor of unique expertise
Responsible for specific tasks

6. Engineering Design Process

7. Engineering Design Process
Problem Identification
Prior Art Survey
Solution Space Exploration
High-Level Design
Detailed Design
Implementation
Integration & Testing

8. Engineering Design Process
Problem Identification
Prior Art Survey
Solution Space Exploration
High-Level Design
Detailed Design
Implementation
Integration & Testing

9. Problem Identification
Identify Problems of Interest
Analyze Merits of the Project
Acquire Input from Users
Consider Business Dimension of the Project
Perform Feasibility Study

10. Engineering Design Process
Problem Identification
Prior Art Survey
Solution Space Exploration
High-Level Design
Detailed Design
Implementation
Integration & Testing

11. Prior Art Survey Patents Books Magazines Technical papers
Professional journals
Research Institute websites
Company Product websites

12. Creating a Literature Review
Step 1: Search sources
Step 2: Filter information
Step 3: Create a summary
Step 4: Create a synthesis

13. Engineering Design Process
Problem Identification
Prior Art Survey
Solution Space Exploration
High-Level Design
Detailed Design
Implementation
Integration & Testing

14. Solution Space Exploration
Create a map for existing solution space
Identify weaknesses or limitations of prior arts
Look for missing links (opportunities)
Draw concepts or methods from other disciplines
Introduce new dimensions
Create possible solutions
Find critical paths or bottlenecks
Conduct performance optimization
Perform vertical integration
Compare and select final solution

15. Engineering Design Process
Problem Identification
Prior Art Survey
Solution Space Exploration
High-Level Design
Detailed Design
Implementation
Integration & Testing

16. High-Level Design Customer Requirements (Input from Customers)
Functional / Performance Requirements
Block Diagram (Functional Blocks / Interface) / Flow Chart
Bill of Materials
Equipment / Tool List
HW / SW / Interface / Mechanical / Process Specifications
Test Plan
Budget

17. Engineering Design Process
Problem Identification
Prior Art Survey
Solution Space Exploration
High-Level Design
Detailed Design
Implementation
Integration & Testing

18. Detailed Design Mechanical Design & Simulation
Electrical Design & Simulation
Software Design & Simulation
Biological process Design & Simulation
Chemical process Design & Simulation
Performance Analysis

19. Engineering Design Process
Problem Identification
Prior Art Survey
Solution Space Exploration
High-Level Design
Detailed Design
Implementation
Integration & Testing

20. Implementation Building Mechanical Parts & Assembly
Electrical Hardware Physical Implementation
Software Coding
Biological Experiments
Chemical Experiments
Build Interface connectors / cables

21. Engineering Design Process
Problem Identification
Prior Art Survey
Solution Space Exploration
High-Level Design
Detailed Design
Implementation
Integration & Testing

22. Integration & Testing Unit Functional Test Unit Performance Test
Reliability Test
System Integration
Integration Test

23. Network Diagrams

24. Purpose of Network Diagrams
A network diagram is a schematic display of the logical relationships among, or sequencing of, project activities
Review activities and show activity sequencing
Determine dependencies of project activities
Perform critical path analysis

25. Network Diagrams Two popular network diagrams:
Activity on Arrow (AOA) network diagrams or Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Project network diagrams or Precedence Diagram Method (PDM)

26. Activity on Arrow (AOA) Network Diagrams
Also called Arrow Diagramming Method (ADM)
A network diagram in which activities are represented by arrows
Precedence relationships between activities are represented by circles connected by one or more arrows
The length of the arrow represents the duration of the activity
ADM only shows finish-to-start relationships, meaning that each activity is completed before the successor activity starts
Sometimes a "dummy task" is added, to represent a dependency between tasks, which does not represent any actual activity. Such a dummy task often has a completion time of 0

27. Activity on Arrow (AOA) Network Diagrams

28. Activity on Arrow (AOA) Network Diagrams

29. Project Network Diagrams
Also called Precedence Diagram Method (PDM)
PDM allows the overlapping of concurrent activities
Identify activities: When an activity is not identified, it’ll never be done
Identify starting date: When will the activity start?
Identify duration: How long will the activity last?
Identify dependencies: Each activity is dependent on some other activity Identify the type of the activity
Identify resource: quantity and type of resources that will be assigned to each activity
Identify critical path: Certain activities have a greater impact on project schedule than others. This is known as the Critical Path Method (CPM)

30. Project Network Diagrams
Activity Dependency Types

31. Project Network Diagrams

32. Critical Path Method

33. Critical Path Method (CPM)
CPM is to predict total project duration
A critical path for a project is the series of activities that determines the earliest time by which the project can be completed.
The critical path is the longest path through the network diagram and has the least amount of slack or float
Slack or float is the amount of time an activity can be delayed without delaying a succeeding activity or the project finish date

34. Critical Path Method (CPM)

35. Critical Path Method (CPM)
Three main techniques for shortening schedules:
Shortening the duration of critical activities by adding more resources or changing their scope
Crashing activities by obtaining the greatest amount of schedule compression for the least incremental cost
Fast tracking activities by doing them in parallel or overlapping them

36. Gantt Chart

37. Gantt Charts
Gantt charts provide a standard format for displaying project schedule information by listing project activities and their corresponding start and finish dates in a calendar format
Symbols include:
Black diamonds: Milestones
Thick black bars: Summary tasks
Lighter horizontal bars: Durations of tasks
Arrows: Dependencies between tasks

38. Gantt Charts
Microsoft Project

39. Milestones of Gantt Charts
Milestones emphasize accomplishments for large projects
Create milestone by entering tasks that have a zero duration

40. GanttProject Tool
GPL-licensed (free software) Java based, project management software that runs under the Windows, Linux and Mac OS X
Download:
Handbook: mdp.eng.cam.ac.uk/web/CD/engapps/project/ganttproject.pdf
Tutorial:

41. GanttProject Tool

42. Action Items Create your network diagram
Create a Gantt chart for your project
Due day: 09/25/2016, Sunday (post them on blog)