Project Management

Project Management

1. DEFINE PROJECT GOAL

   • COLLECT REQUIREMENTS
     • DEFINING SCOPE
       • VERIFYING SCOPE
         • CONTROLLING THE SCOPE
       • Preliminary scope statement
     • Stakeholder Requirements Matrix
     • Project Investment
       • Strategic Planning
         • Business Area Analysis
           • Project Identification
             • Project Selection
               • Selection approaches / MOV
             • Create inception deck to determine the right answers to questions
           • 'As Is' and 'To Be' business processes
             • Make proposed changes visible to sakeholders, generate ownership
         • Understand organisational goals and objectives thru missions, goals etc

2. PLAN PROJECT

   • SYSTEM SELECTION
     • SDLC APPROACH
       • Predictive or Adaptive?
         • Agile clips
           • A few clips on Agile…. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJflDE6OaSc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU0llRltyFM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8vT7G0WATM&list=PLF6BFA8BAEDF6CE70
         • 12 Agile principles
           • Customer satisfaction by rapid delivery of useful software Welcome changing requirements, even late in development Working software is delivered frequently (weeks rather than months) Working software is the principal measure of progress Sustainable development, able to maintain a constant pace Close, daily co-operation between business people and developers Face-to-face is the best form of communication (= co-location) Projects are built around motivated individuals, who should be trusted Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design Simplicity Self-organising teams Regular adaptation to changing circumstances
       • PROJECT MANAGEMENT (INTEGRATION) PLAN
         • What's this?
         • SCOPE MGT
           • Extend on scope statement
             • CREATE A WBS
               • in scope management lec 6
             • CREATE TASK LIST
           • What is to be done and what is not to be done?
         • RISK MGT
           • What's a risk?
             • Planning
               • Identification
                 • Assessment
                   • Probability Impact Matrix
                   • Strategies
                     • Risk Matrix
                     • Monitoring and Control
                       • Tools
                       • Evaluation
         • TIME MGT
           • QUALITY MGT
             • HR MGT
               • COMM MGT
                 • RISK MGT
                   • PROCURE MGT
           • How the WBS helps with TIME MGT
             • Active Sequencing
               • Establish task dependancies & relationships
               • Network Display Diagram
               • AoA Network diagram
               • PERT
                 • PERT - Program Evaluation and Review Technique
                 • Duration
                   • optimistic time + 4x likely time + pessimistic time all divided by 6
                 • Standards
                   • Node ID / Earliest Start / Latest Start / Float
                 • Project estimating
                   • Other Approaches
                     • Guesstimating - feeling not facts Delphi Technique - - Multiple, anonymouse experts -   Each expert makes a guess - Compare estamates Time boxing - A box of time is allocated for a specific task, activity or deliverable Analogous - Similarity with other, earlier projects Parametic - Mathematic model to estimate cost or duration with software
                   • Top-down - made from optimism
                   • Bottom-up - realisitic estimates
           • Critical Path Method
     • System Type Selection
       • 'Bespoke' - from scratch Off-the-shelf - MYOB / office Hosted solution - 'renting' a solution Tailored - Off the shelf / Hosted that is tailored
       • Why pick?