BASICS OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT

BASICS OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT

1. Proyect Charter

   • Document that authorizes the existence of a project and provides the project manager with the authority to apply organizational resources
   • Benefits
     • Link between project and objectives of the company
     • Formal record of project
     • Organizational commitment of the project is shown
   • Development
     • Input
       • Business documents (case and management plan)
       • Agreements
       • Enterprise environmental factors
       • Organizational process assets
     • Tools and techniques
       • Expert judgement
       • Data gathering (brainstorming, focus groups, interviews)
       • Meetings
       • Interpersonal and team skills (conflict management, facilitation, meeting management)
     • Outputs
       • Project Charter
       • Assumption log

2. EDT

   • Subdivition of the project deliverables and project work into smaller, more manageable components
   • What must be delivered.
   • Benefits
     • Makes the communication easier
     • Everyone on the team can easily find their place in the project
     • Facilitate integrated change control
   • Direct relation with the stablished schedule

3. Management plan

   • Comprehensive document that defines the basis of all project work and how the work will be performed
   • Defines
     • Execution
     • Monitoring
     • Clossure
   • Robust enough to respond to an ever changing project environment
   • Define references so the project can be evalueted and compared (time, scope, cost)

4. Schedule management

   • Stablish how the project will be handeled over time, as well as the activities to do
   • To include
     • Sequence of activities
       • Activity atributes
       • Activity list
       • Relationship between activities
       • Responsible of each activity
       • Needed resources or information of each activity
       • Deadlines

5. Crutial Components or Activities

   • Cost management
     • Budegeting
   • Quality management
     • Quality indicators
   • Resource management
     • Estimate necessary resources for the project's development
   • Communication management
     • Communication plan
   • Risk management
     • Define risks and responses towards them
   • Stakeholder management