PROJECT MANAGEMENT ADVANCED
Academic Year 2021-2022
,Project Management Overview & Project Life Cycle
Careers using project management
Project management skills are needed in a variety of jobs:
- Business owners: The pillars of project management are delivering a
product/service within schedule, cost, scope, and quality requirements. Business
owners need planning, organizing, and scoping skills and the ability to analyze,
communicate, budget, staff, equip, implement, and deliver.
- Outsourcing services: Below is a sample status and project plan that reflects
the various tasks needed for a project. A review of finances, the importance of
communicating to stakeholders, and the importance of time, cost, schedule,
scope, and quality are reflected. Many companies may use these steps in their
business. These plans show the need for the entire team to review the various
proposals to choose the best plan.
- Creative services
- Educators: Educators provide motivation to learn a new language or showcase
new products and services. Educators use project management skills including
planning and communication.
- Engineers: Engineers use many project management skills, especially when
they must specify functional requirements. They demonstrate attention to
quality as they evaluate a design’s overall effectiveness, cost, reliability, and
safety similar to the project manager reviewing the criteria for the customer’s
acceptance of delivery of the product or service.
- Health care: These individuals actively apply risk management in providing
health care delivery of service to their clients, ensuring that they do not injure
the person they are caring for.
- Paralegal: Project management skills such as planning are used in helping
lawyers prepare for closings, hearings, trials, and corporate meetings.
Communication skills are used in preparing written reports that help attorneys
determine how cases should be handled or drafts for actions such as pleading,
filing motions, and obtaining affidavits.
- Software developers: They apply the principles of computer science and
mathematics to create, test, and evaluate software applications and systems
that make computers come alive. Software is developed in many kinds of
projects: computer games, business applications, operating systems, network
control systems, and more.
- Science technicians: Planning skills project managers use can be seen as
science technicians set up, operate, and maintain laboratory instruments;
monitor experiments; and observe, calculate, and record results.
Project management overview
Project features
- Projects are temporary
- Bring about a product or service that didn’t exist
- Have a clear starting and ending date
, - Are completed when the goals and objectives are accomplished (or not
accomplished)
Project= a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service or
result.
Is it a project?
Use these criteria:
- Is it unique?
- Is there a limited timeframe?
- Is there a way to determine when the project is finished?
- Is there a way to determine stakeholder satisfaction?
Four times yes you have a project
The success of a project
Project constraints
Constraints= limitations
- Cost= project budget
- Scope= what the project is trying to achieve
- Quality= combination of standards and criteria to which the project’s product
must be delivered to perform effectively
- Risk= defined by potential external events that will have a negative effect when
they occur
- Resources= required to carry out the project
- Time= time needed to complete the project
The triple constraint
, Project management expertise
Application knowledge
- Standards: guidelines or preferred approaches that are not necessarily
mandatory
- Regulations: mandatory rules that must be followed
Standards and regulations vary according to the application area.
most government agencies have specific procurement rules that apply to their
projects that wouldn’t be applicable in the construction industry.
Understanding project environment