...Resource 11. TRAINING MODULE IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT (Created by the Institute for Development Management, Botswana for the NGO Institute, STF. (Some materials in this module have been extracted from “A Guide to Project Management Body of Knowledge, 3rd. edition, 2004) What is a project? “A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product or service.” The Three P’s [pic] Working definition of project management Project management is the application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities in order to meet or exceed stakeholder needs and expectations from a project. (Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge Project Management Institute 2004) Project Management in Your Organization • What are the current methods of project management in your organization? • What project management issues is your organization facing? Important Characteristics of Real Life Projects • Accomplish with shared resources often only available on part-time basis • Require cross-functional team work • Involve uncertainty and are subject to change during execution • Subject to specific deadlines and time and resource constraints • Project manager often lacks functional authority over team members Proven Benefits of Project Management ✓ Provides clear roles, responsibilities, activities and schedules for team efforts ✓ Includes a method for considering the consequences of decreasing or increasing funds, resources...
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...Division Capstone Assignment Name: Unit 5 Individual Project Deliverable Length: 4-5 body pages, 1 PERT chart, 1 Gantt chart Details: Using your current work organization (or an organization of interest) as the subject matter, research the elements of business and prepare an APA formatted paper that: • Analyzes the organization’s basic legal, social, and economic environments • Analyzes the organization’s managerial, operational, and financial issues including: o Project Management o Project Timelines o Critical Paths and Contingency Planning o Implementation Plan Contingencies o Staffing Needs and Tools o One Gantt Chart Example o One PERT Chart Example • Analyzes the impact of potential change factors and the impact on the functions of management There are so many issues that face business owners. Just to name a few are the basic supply and demand concerns when setting prices and hours of employees. Workers and potential injuries. Payroll, general book keeping, and employee benefits. The list goes on. I think one of the biggest areas that potential business owners neglect is legal advice because they precieve it as to expensive. Well there is a company out there that has made it affordable to small business owners so they can have access to the legal system and protect their investment. All About Project Management Project management is a carefully planned and organized effort to accomplish a successful project. A projectis a one-time effort that produces a specific...
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...Contents List of Figure 2 PART A 3 1.0 Introduction 3 2.0 Literature Review 4 2.1 Definitions 4 2.2 Why organization use project management to achieve strategic objective 4 2.3 Case study 7 3.0 Conclusion 8 PART B 9 Question 1: 9 Question 2 11 Question 3 13 Question 4 14 Question 5a 14 Question 5b 16 Question 5c 18 Reference 21 Appendix 23 List of Figure Figure 1: Dialog box to change working time 9 Figure 2: Gantt chart for Part B-Question 1 10 Figure 3: Networking Diagram 12 Figure 4: Project summary for Part B - Question 1 13 Figure 5: Collapse Boxes for the Networking diagram 14 Figure 6 : Inserting 15 days of delay 15 Figure 7: Gantt chart for Part B Question 5a after delay 15 Figure 8: Gantt chart before delay 16 Figure 9: Leveling Gantt for Part B – Question 5b 17 Figure 10: Gantt chart before any delay 17 Figure 11: Gantt chart for Part B – Question 5b 18 Figure 12: Gantt chart for Part B Question 5c 19 Figure 13: Gantt chart before any delay 19 PART A 1.0 Introduction Nowadays strategic objective is viewed as essential as operation target to an organization’s operation (Brown & Russell, 2008). There is an increasing awareness that solely achievement on the operation goal will not generate the prominent competitive advantage as expected. It can only be realized through the accomplishment of strategic objective...
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...cmgt 410 PROJECT PLANNING & IMPLEMENTATION [pic] CONTRIBUTORS THE UNIVERSITY GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGES THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE FOLLOWING PROFESSIONALS TO THE COMPLETION OF THIS COURSE. 1. Stephen Northam, MA, Faculty Member, University of Phoenix. 2. Kenneth Sardoni, MCIS, Faculty Member, University of Phoenix. 3. Blair Smith, MBA, Associate Dean, College of Information Systems and Technology. 4. Claudia Avila, BSBA, Curriculum Development Manager, College of Information Systems and Technology. 5. Adam Honea, Ph.D., Dean, College of Information Systems and Technology. Copyright ( 2001 by the University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. The University of Phoenix® and UniModuleTM are marks of Apollo Group, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. Edited in accordance with University of PhoenixSM editorial standards and practices. (Template U1.0) Overview COURSE DESCRIPTION This course provides the foundation for understanding the broad concepts of successful planning, organization, and implementation within the realm of information technology. This course uses real-world examples and identifies common mistakes and pitfalls in project management. Topics covered include project scoping, estimating, budgeting, scheduling, tracking and controlling. TOPICS AND OBJECTIVES Project Management and the Organization • Define Project Life Cycle. • Identify roles in project management. • Identify project manager's skills. • Demonstrate...
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...Assessment Tasks Assessor Guide BSBRSK501A: Manage risk Copyright ownership: United Business Services (Aust) Pty Ltd. This book is copyright protected under the Berne Convention. All rights reserved. No reproduction without permission. This book is protected by copyright and may not be reproduced or copied either in part or in whole nor used for financial gain without the express approval in writing of the owner (United Business Services (Aust) Pty Ltd) of the copyright. United Business Services (Aust) Pty Ltd 50 Cupania Street Algester Qld 4115 Ph: (07) 3276 0549 Email: info@ubsconsultants.com.au Web: www.ubsconsultants.com.au BSBRSK501A: Manage risk Assessment Tasks: Assessor Guide Assessment Documentation This Assessor Guide is designed to provide standardised documentation and assessment procedure for the assessment processes conducted by this RTO. The assessment tools that are used by you (the assessor) will result in evidence being generated by the student targeting this unit of competency. The evidence is kept by the RTO and is required for audit purposes. The following table summarises the types of evidence students can generate as proof of competence. The table contains information based on the AQF (Australian Qualifications Framework) Level for the unit BSBRSK501A: Manage risk. Sample assessment tools have been suggested as a means of assisting students in generating the appropriate form of evidence for this unit. AQF Level Distinguishing Features (Source: AQF...
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...nrw | nrw | Risk Management Design -RV Dealer final report Risk Management Design -RV Dealer final report PART I 1. OBJECTIVE The objective of this report is to present a Risk Management Plan for the RV Retail and Depot facility located in Fountain, Colorado. The overall cost of the construction and restoration of the existing facility is approximately 1.5 million dollars. Level 1 | Level 2 | Level 3 | 1- RV Design | 1.1 Initiation | 1.2.1 Initial Meeting with General Contractor Construction Architects to discuss the project. 1.2.2 Present the project to the team 1.2.3 Prepare a proposal 1.2.4 Present proposal 1.2.5 Proposal Approval | | 1.2 Planning | 1.2.1 Create a preliminary scope of work1.2.2 Determine the project team1.2.3 Develop a project plan1.2.4 Submit the project plan1.2.5 Project Plan Approval | | 1.3 Execution | 1.3.1 Project Kickoff meeting1.3.2 Verify and validate user requirements1.3.3 Create a cost estimate1.3.4 Present cost estimate to customer1.3.5 Milestone: Cost Estimate Approval1.3.6 Select equipment 1.3.7 Draft initial design1.3.8 Milestone: Present 60% design to customer1.3.9 Receive comments from customer1.3.10 Review comments1.3.11 Complete design using the customer’s comments1.3.12 Create a punch list 1.3.12.1 Team Coordination Meeting1.3.13 Milestone: Present 95% Drawings to customer | | 1.4 Control | 1.4.1 Project Management1.4.2 Project Status Meetings1...
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...Reggie Thurman. Project 1 IS3110 Mr. Rivers October 19, 2013 Project 1 Part 1: Risk Mgmt. Plan 1. Introduction Risk Mgmt. Plan Well for starters the purpose of this risk management for DLIS (Defense Logistics Information Service) plan will be similar to the purpose of any organization would be and that would be how to better protect and secure the company’s IT environment. The importance of this is major since there is all kind of important data that is on and transmitted throughout our networks on a daily basis. DLIS we must ensure that we implement all necessary preventative security measures as well as policies and procedures. We must do this by first of all ensuring that we have really good antivirus software installed on all of our systems and ensuring that it is always up to date. The next thing is extensively configuring our firewalls making it more difficult for our networks to be hacked. Another thing is data encryption which is very vital in securing all important data for our company and clients especially when we are performing data transmission over the networks. The last thing I want to mention which will be part of policies and procedure is implementing various password and logon policies and procedures for security purposes as well. As I stated the purpose of the development of this plan is to reduce the risk of threats and vulnerabilities on our networks. This is vital because threats and vulnerabilities definitely present risk(s) to any important...
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...Project Management Jo Anne Bishop Ashford University Project Planning and Management BUS611 Dr. Caroline Howard October 14, 2012 Project Management Effective project management is crucial to the success of any project regardless of the size or complexity. Project management experts Karen Tate and Paula Martin said, “Trying to manage a project without project management is like trying to play football without a game plan” (Martin & Tate, 2001, pg 9). Project managers have a difficult job. Their jobs are often times made more difficult by the dynamic environment in which they must work. Project managers must take a project through the entire project management life-cycle, from an idea to a fully developed deliverable. While the job is difficult, there are many tools and processes that have been developed to assist in project management. While they are responsible for the leadership of the project, they have many, such as the project sponsor and project team members, who are there to assist them in ensuring the job gets done. In addition to the personnel who will help him, there are many different project management tools as well. Project scope, work breakdown structures, contingency plans and project management software are all tools that, if used properly, can ensure that a project can be completed within time and budget. Project management is not an easy job but if a project manager understands his project and his roles and responsibilities along with the...
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...Running head: JIT2 (RISK MANAGEMENT): TASK 1A 1 JIT2 (Risk Management): Task 1A It has been stated that, "Denial is a common tactic that substitutes deliberate ignorance for thoughtful planning," Charles Tremper (n.d.) who authored various risk management books. We have been hired, as a consultant in our first task is to create and present to management of business contingency plan combined with risk management to our new client. There has been some concern from both the IT department and legal departments about personal identifiable information sensitive information, client records, and other sensitive information regarding the ethical use and protection of this information. Our goal is to have client confidence along with some sense of job satisfaction; therefore, our boss has informed us that we get to choose our very first client. Our selection can be the place we actually work, any local business, or even a Fortune 500 company. One requirement is that our client must operate globally throughout its business. We will exclude any proprietary information, confidential information, or anything that can be considered sensitive. No names of real people involved with the business, any suppliers, or anything else that could be identifiable will be used. Instead we will only use made-up or fictional names for this task. No actual financial data will be used but rather be addressed using vague or generic terms when appropriate. Due to concerns in the global marketplace...
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...Information Technology Project Management, Third Edition ISBN 0-619-159847 Course Technology MIS Series Companion Web Site: www.course.com/mis/schwalbe Kathy Schwalbe, Ph.D., PMP Table of Contents CHAPTER 1 1 CHAPTER 2 3 CHAPTER 3 7 CHAPTER 4 9 CHAPTER 5 13 CHAPTER 6 18 CHAPTER 7 22 CHAPTER 8 27 CHAPTER 9 31 CHAPTER 10 35 CHAPTER 11 38 CHAPTER 12 41 APPENDIX A 44 APPENDIX B 49 APPENDIX C 51 List of solution files available with the Instructor Resource material: CHAPTER 1 Introduction to Project Management Discussion Questions 1. Why is there a new or renewed interest in the field of project management? More and more projects are being done by a variety of organizations. The projects are more complex and often involve the use of new technologies. Organizations are struggling to find better ways to manage their projects. 2. What is a project? How is it different from what most people do in their day-to-day jobs? A project is “a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product or service” (PMBOK( Guide, 2000, p. 4). Projects are different from day-to-day activities primarily because they have focused goals and definite beginning and ending dates. 3. What is project management? Briefly describe the project management framework. Project management is “the application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities in order to meet project requirements” (PMBOK( Guide, 2000, p. 6). The project management framework graphically...
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...ASSIGNMENT ON DEVELOPING STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP SKILLS COURSE CODE: GOTXH04/WFPA GROUP D SUBMITTED BY Group D – 3 (SAMSUNG) TO THE SCHOOL OF FINANCE AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIES IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENT FOR THE AWARD OF POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN MANAGEMENT STUDIES (PGDMS). COURSE LECTURERS DATE: 05/08/2011 1.Project Executive Summary The overall project is focusing on a plan to design and launch the next generation mobile handset –Samsung Solid Extreme which will be called V2 as per clients needs. This project plan has aim and objectives to be achieved within the agreed project scope. The deliverables of this plan contains network diagram and Gantt chart to measure the project performances and on-going approaches. Moreover, in order to indentify and handle the risk involved within the project, this project will use risk register. Key areas of this project approach will be the stages in PBS, WBS and CBS where it will function as a framework of this project and affect the final outcome of this whole project. The ideal outcome of this project will be a successful launch of a new V2 design within the time, budget and scope limit. 2. Project overview Using the Client briefing document, this section will describe: • Project background and context, • Main requirements of the Project. Project Planning Inc. has been invited by an SME electronics design company , to tender for the commission...
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...POLITECNICO DI MILANO Muğla Marble Quarry Project Management final work Written by: Assaf Shklar Emre Yağmurlu Ceren Bayazit Vahid Golabi Rodrigo Esteban Perez Muğla Marble Quarry Contents 1.Introduction ....................................................................................................................... 5 2.Project Charter ....................................................................................................................... 6 1.General information ........................................................................................................... 6 2.Project stakeholders ........................................................................................................... 6 3.Charter executive summary ............................................................................................... 6 4.Project purpose .................................................................................................................. 7 a.Business need ................................................................................................................. 7 b.Business objectives......................................................................................................... 7 5.Project overview ................................................................................................................. 7 a.Project description ..............................................................................
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...Project management-For this project, you may Click Link Below To Buy: http://hwcampus.com/shop/project-management-for-this-project-you-may/ Project management-For this project, you may For this project, you may choose one that is of interest to you, or you may choose to begin planning for your senior project. When selecting a project, avoid picking one that is either too big or too small. For example, do not decide to build a new stadium for your local sports team (too big) or to plant your summer garden (too small). Here are some successful past project ideas. • The opening of a coffee shop • A charity event for a local social service agency • A meditation pool and platform in the center of town • A redevelopment of a local playground • Design and installation of a computer network for a small business • Software development project A project to build a house or create a website is NOT acceptable. You are not limited to the list of projects above. Please refer all questions concerning what is acceptable as a class project to your instructor. Milestones: • Due Week 1: Project Outline Proposal/Approval • Due Week 2: Project Charter • Due Week 3: Scope Statement • Due Week 4: Work Breakdown Structure/Gantt Chart • Due Week 5: Risk Management Plan • Due Week 6: Project Schedule and Budget • Due Week 7: Communication Plan • Due Week 8: Final Project Package Week 1 Back to Top Due Week 1: Project Outline Proposal/Approval To begin Week 1, all...
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...Technology Project Management, Seventh Edition ISBN-10: 1133526853 ISBN-13: 978-1133526858 Course Technology MIS Series Kathy Schwalbe, Ph.D., PMP Created November 27, 2012 Table of Contents CHAPTER 1 2 CHAPTER 2 4 CHAPTER 3 6 CHAPTER 4 7 CHAPTER 5 14 CHAPTER 6 20 CHAPTER 7 25 CHAPTER 8 30 CHAPTER 9 33 CHAPTER 10 36 CHAPTER 11 38 CHAPTER 12 41 CHAPTER 13 43 APPENDIX A 44 APPENDIX B 49 APPENDIX C 50 List of solution files available and referenced in this document, in alphabetical order: CHAPTER 1 Introduction to Project Management DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 1. Why is there a new or renewed interest in the field of project management? More and more projects are being done by a variety of organizations. The projects are more complex and often involve the use of new technologies. Organizations are struggling to find better ways to manage their projects. 2. What is a project, and what are its main attributes? How is a project different from what most people do in their day-to-day jobs? What is the triple constraint? What other factors affect a project? A project is “a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service, or result” (PMBOK Guide, 2012). In addition to being temporary and unique, other attributes of projects are that they are developed using progressive elaboration, require resources from various areas, should have a primary customer or sponsor, and involve uncertainty. Projects are different...
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...| 2013 | | UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG Group 5 | [AIRBUS A380] | THE BENCHMARK FOR FUTURE AVIATION | S ABDULLAH BASHARAT YUE ZHAO YAN LI ZAIDAN MAULAIE 1. Introduction: Till 2005, Boeing 747 was considered the best plane in the world, but the technology needs to be redefined and the best airliner “Airbus” introduced the most fantastic jet in front of the world on April 2005. So the Airbus A380 took his first maiden flight in April 2005 and the primary user was Singapore airlines. The total project costs $13Billion. The Airbus A380 is a double-deck, four-engine airliner manufactured by the European corporation “Airbus”. The A380 has approximately 633 sq. m of cabin area, the upper deck has 300 sq. m and the main deck has 333 sq. m.50% more floor space and provides seating for 555 people in standard three-class configuration The engines were designed by the world renowned company ROLCE ROYCE. In engines latest electrical and mechanical technologies were introduced in order to attain a speed of 0.88MACH. The massive Rolls Royce Trent 900 engines are capable of 375kN (84 000lbs) of thrust. Airbus used similar cockpit layout, procedures and handling characteristics to those of other Airbus aircraft, to reduce crew training costs. Accordingly, the A380 features an improved glass cockpit and displays 15-by-20 cm liquid crystal displays, all of which are physically identical and interchangeable. The A380 has cabins on the upper and lower decks, with 50% more...
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