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2. CMGT/410 Project Planning & Implementation Week One:Week One: PM and the Organization Week Two:Week Two: WBS and Scheduling Week Three:Week Three: Resources and Financing Week Four: Week Four: Project Control and Evaluation Week Five: Week Five: Critical Success Factors

3. Week One Project Life Cycle Project Roles Project Manager’s People Skills Project Software

4. Project Life Cycle Concept Development Implementation Close-out

5. Project Roles Project manager's role Management's role Project team's role

6. Project Manager’s People Skills Active listening Manage expectations Resolve conflict Overcome fears Interview Facilitate meetings Motivate team members Leadership

7. Project Software Small project software Enterprise project software The Plan vs. the software Microsoft Project

8. Week Two Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) WBS Task Identification WBS Task Descriptions WBS Task Precedence Project Scheduling

9. Work Breakdown Structure Task Identification Task Descriptions Task Sequence Task Numbering Task Precedence Task Rollup

10. WBS Task Identification Top-down Bottom-up Analogy Guidelines

11. WBS Task Descriptions Verb noun (example: Interview users) Milestones (example: Complete analysis) Deliverables (example: Deliver requirements document) Subtasks

12. WBS Task Precedence Start to end Start to start End to start End to end Overlap Gap

13. Project Scheduling Estimation of task duration –Stochastic –Deterministic –Modular –Benchmark Units of duration –Day is most common –Shorter than days only if critical –Rollup to longer periods than days

14. Week Three Project Management Charts Gantt Chart PERT Chart Critical Path Project Triple Constraint Project Resources Project Budgeting

15. Project Management Charts Gantt PERT Critical Path Method (CPM)

16. Gantt Chart

17. PERT Chart

18. Critical Path

19. Project Triple Constraint Resources Time Money

20. Project Resources Human Non-human Leveling Allocating

21. Project Budgeting Top-down Bottom-up Iterative Overburden

22. Week Four Project Control & Evaluation Project Budget Management Project Budget Analysis

23. Project Control & Evaluation Project Tracking –Project Reporting –Change Control –Configuration Control Standards Quality Assurance Testing

24. Project Budget Management Baseline Projected Actual Slack Crashing Subcontracting Outsourcing

25. Project Budget Analysis Cost/benefit analysis Break-even analysis Return on investment

26. Week Five Project Critical Success Factors End

27. Project Critical Success Factors Managing people Dealing with politics Managing risk Managing a disaster Subdividing large projects Terminating a project

28. CMGT/410 Project Management End