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Project Management - CPM/PERT
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Project
A project is a temporary endeavour involving a connected sequence of activities and a range of resources, which is designed to achieve a specific and unique outcome and which operates within time, cost and quality constraints and which is often used to introduce change.
Characteristic of a project
A unique, one-time operational activity or effort
Requires the completion of a large number of interrelated activities
Established to achieve specific objective
Resources, such as time and/or money, are limited
Typically has its own management structure
Need leadership
Examples
constructing houses, factories, shopping malls, athletic stadiums or arenas
developing military weapons systems, aircrafts, new ships
launching satellite systems
constructing oil pipelines
developing and implementing new computer systems
planning concert, football games, or basketball tournaments
introducing new products into market
What is project management
The application of a collection of tools and techniques to direct the use of diverse resources towards the accomplishment of a unique, complex, one time task within time, cost and quality constraints.
Its origins lie in World War II, when the military authorities used the techniques of operational research to plan the optimum use of resources.
One of these techniques was the use of networks to represent a system of related activities
Project Management Process
Project planning
Project scheduling
Project control
Project team
made up of individuals from various areas and departments within a company
Matrix organization
a team structure with members from functional areas, depending on skills required
Project Manager
most important member of project team
Scope statement
a document that provides an understanding, justification, and expected result of a project
Statement of work
written description of objectives of a project
Organizational Breakdown Structure
a chart that shows which organizational units are responsible for work items
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
shows who is responsible for work in a project
Work breakdown structure
A method of breaking down a project into individual elements ( components, subcomponents, activities and tasks) in a hierarchical structure which can be scheduled and cost
It defines tasks that can be completed independently of other tasks, facilitating resource allocation, assignment of responsibilities and measurement and control of the project
It is foundation of project planning
It is developed before identification of dependencies and estimation of activity durations
It can be used to identity the tasks in the CPM and PERT