...condition that it is not copied, modified, published, sold, re-branded, hired out or otherwise distributed for commercial purposes. Please give appropriate citation credit to the authors and to PM4DEV. Feel free to distribute this eBook to any one you like, including peers, managers and organizations to assist their project management activities. www.pm4dev.com The Project Management Processes PROJECT MANAGEMENT PROCESSES Project management is a process of leading a team of capable people in planning and implementing a series of related activities that need to be accomplished on a specific date with a limited budget. Because of its nature, coordinating all these activities requires a process approach. Because many times development project take on unexplored territory, assumptions about the project must be listed, evaluated, its risks assessed and contingency plans developed. It also requires a close monitoring of the budget, scope and schedule to deliver the project objectives under the expected quality. Each one of these elements needs to be managed in a systematic manner with the development of plans to identify the roles and resources needed. There is also the complexity of development projects that require a different approach and a new way at managing the limited resources and the increasing demands from all stakeholders. To manage this complexity the project needs to be de-constructed into manageable, interrelated parts; or processes, by...
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...solutions. We are constantly working to improve ourselves and our state of the art manufacturing processes in order to better our products and to meet the highest quality standards making us leaders in manufacturing of electro-mechanical relays and electronic motor controllers. Understand the strategic context and purpose of work analysis "Work analysis is a technical and managerial tool for gathering, analyzing and synthesizing information about jobs/roles and other units of work. The analysis assists HR specialists, industrial engineers, organization designers and others in such end-use areas as: • Job/role design (roles, duties and responsibilities) • Job evaluation and compensation (grades, pay surveys and pay setting) • Employment (recruitment, selection and placement) • Performance management (performance criteria and appraisal) • Training, development and vocational and career counseling (needs assessment and career pathing) • Compliance with legal requirements • Work management (work processes and outsourcing) • Organization design (missions, functions and other aspects of work units for horizontal and vertical differentiation)." SHRM [online] available at [accessed at 14 Dec 2013] As for any other organization doing a correct work analysis is essential for the continuous improvement of The Organization since with its systematic way of collecting and analyzing...
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...and most of the people will have no understanding about this. But today, Quality tools understanding and importance has grown among people and organizations. There are many tools that are used among the organizations that are classified as follows: 1. Cause Analysis Tools: includes Fishbone, Pareto, and Scattered Diagram. 2. Evaluation and Decision Making Tool: Decision Matrix, Multivoting. 3. Process Analysis Tool: includes Flow chart, Failure Mode Effects Analysis, Mistake-proofing and Spaghetti Diagram. 4. Data Collection and Analysis Tools: box and whisker plot, check sheet, control chart, Design of experiments, Histogram, Scatter Diagram, Stratification, and Survey. 5. Idea Creation Tools: Affinity Diagram, Benchmarking, Brainstorming, Nominal Group Technique. 6. Project Planning and Implementation Tool: Gantt Chart, Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) Cycle or Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) Cycle. 7. Seven New Management and Planning Tools: Affinity Diagram, Relations Diagram, Tree Diagram, Matrix Diagram, Matrix Data Analysis, Arrow Diagram, Process Decision Program Chart. Quality tools & techniques use statistical knowledge to accumulate data and analyze them. It serves diverse range of medical, computing, industrial, telecommunications and defense. These tools drive improvement throughout the organization. Employee has to at all levels has to master the fundamental Quality skills and advanced Quality tools. This is critical to improve the organization process. These tools...
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... | | Memo To: InterClean Management From: Students 1 CC: HR Manager Date: April 22, 2010 Re: New Sales Team – Job Analysis and Selection To help with our company’s new direction of selling full -service cleaning solutions, I have been asked to select a new sales team from the combined employees of Interclean and EnviroTech. To accomplish this task, I needed to develop a new job analysis for the sales team, consider a workforce planning system, identify a selection method, and select the team members by using the job analysis and the selection method. This memo explains this process. Nice intro Job Analysis You may think that I should just select the appropriate employees without doing a job analysis. I contend that job analysis not only helps define a job, it gives our company a competitive advantage because we will understand the type of employees our company needs to accomplish our new sales initiative (Siddique, 2004, p. 219). Good I think we can all agree that giving our company a competitive advantage is worthwhile. A job analysis consists of a job description that lists the task requirements and a job specification that lists the worker requirements (Cascio, 2005, p. 158). Task requirements are the tasks or functions that will need to be done on the job. Worker...
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...Introduction In this paper, the researcher will analysis a team that he were presently a member. According to analysis the Characteristics, Processes, Issues, Organizational context and Group Dynamics for teams, to find the reasonable recommendations to improve the performance. Overview of the team In 2013, the HuaLi Meter Company wanted to improve the effective of work process and standardize the operation instruction. Therefore, the organization set up a quality improve team, which involve eight people, to analysis the work process and product (kilo-watt-hour meter). This team were made of one team leader, two operation staffs, two product measure staffs, two data analysis staffs, and one standard draft staff. The whole improve process...
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...Method – Advantages & Disadvantages People seek quality in every-man artifact. Global competition, outsourcing, off shoring and increasing customer expectations have brought the concept of quality to the forefront. Traditionally, efforts to improve the quality have centered on the end the product development cycle by emphasizing the detection and correction of defects. There are two types of software testing that people usually refer to. The first one is through Waterfall Model and the second one is Agile Testing. Both of these models have their own advantages and disadvantages. By weighting the advantages and disadvantages between these two concepts, we will then be able to decide on which one that we can use as a referral to do software testing. Before we begin to decide on which concepts that we can refer to, let’s take a look at each of the concepts. Waterfall Model Waterfall model is known as a sequential model. Once the stage has completed then developers can move on to the next step. This model requires an extensive plan so that we can minimize the error of going back to the previous stage. To be able to complete the project using the Waterfall method, both sides should be able the requirements and able to present what is should look like after completing the project in the beginning. Waterfall model consist of eight stages. They are: System requirement, Software requirement, Analysis, Design, Coding, Test and Use. Figure 1.0 – Waterfall...
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...Final Project Report COEN 287 Software Development Process Management Winter2016 Instructor: Zoltan Kurczveil Dhara Tamhare Shilpita Roy Kevin Hong Preface Subject of software development process management provides us infinite knowledge and understanding while witnessing it in at company enables us to perceive how various lesson learned in class are associated at numerous level at work place. Knowledge gained from a book can provide immense amount of conceptual knowledge and spotting it in realtime scenario can be equally astonishing. A through study can be useful to develop instincts to understand how at it is instantly correlated at a company. Keeping this point of view in mind every student of Software development project management class of Santa Clara University undertakes his / her choice of project related to the subject. This initiation enables them to understand this pivotal subject plus preparing them to be competent enough to face all future challenges that will be encountered. Thus as per syllabus Santa Clara University has specially included this project. Acknowledgement First, we would like to thank Santa Clara University, which has given us the opportunity to work ...
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...Plan Oliberté International Marketing MIB Front - Team 4 I. Executive Summary II. Concept Statement A. Company Background and Mission B. Products and Services C. Business Model: Sustainability and Uniqueness D. Strategic Intention E. Marketing F. Risk Analysis G. Differentiation H. Evaluation: Factor of success III. Situation Analysis A. Industry Analysis 1. Industry overview 2. Porter five forces 3. Market size 4. Position in the market life cycle 5. Available distribution structure, plus attitudes and practices 6. PESTEL 7. Risk Analysis B. Firm Analysis 1. Brief history of the company and stage of internationalization 2. SWOT Analysis 3. Stakeholder Analysis 4. Product Development and Product Extension 5. Pricing and Financial Policy 6. Internet and E-commerce 7. Organizational Structure C. Competitor Analysis 1. Competitive Positioning: Direct and Indirect Competitors 2. Market Share Distribution 3. Future Competition – Direct and Indirect Competitor 4. Barriers to Entry 5. Competitive Advantages D. Customer Analysis 1. Who are your customers? 2. What do customers want/need? 3. What must be done to satisfy their wants and/or needs? 4. What is the size of the market? 5. What is the growth profile? IV. Strategic Marketing Decision A. Marketing Scope B. Marketing Goals 1. Successfully launch and market the expansion of the product offer 2 Marketing Plan Oliberté International Marketing MIB Front - Team 4 2. Successfully launch and market the contribution...
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...and associating budgets and timelines for completion Implementing the project plan, carefully to make sure the plan is being managed according to plan. The different phases of a project lifecycle are as below: Project Lifecycle 1. Project Initiation Project Initiation in simple terms is: starting up the project. We initiate a project by defining its reason, business goals, and scope. The reason for initiating it, and the propose solution to be implemented. We will also put together a project team, define early milestones, and early budget proposal. With the above information we can move on and perform an end of Phase study in order to get a GO No GO decision. 2. Project Planning Once we define the project and assemble the project team, we are ready to enter the in depth Project Planning phase. This involves creating the "PMP", Project Management Plan, in order to guide the team during the project development and after. We will define the Required Skills of development team. Define Non-labor Resources, Risks plan, detailed action items and milestones. 3. Execution and controlling The most important issue in this phase is to ensure project activities are properly executed and controlled. During the execution phase, the planned solution is...
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...MBA IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT MBBP2133 ( Project Quality Assurance, Human Resources & Communication Management Name : Sarah Saud Fatmi Student ID# : 11046509 Semester : 1 Academic Honesty Policy Statement I, hereby attest that contents of this attachment are my own work. Referenced works, articles, art, programs, papers or parts thereof are acknowledged at the end of this paper. This includes data excerpted from CD-ROMs, the Internet, other private networks, and other people’s disk of the computer system. Student’s Signature : _____________________________ | |for office use only | |LECTURER’S COMMMENTS/GRADE: | | | | | | |DATE : ______________ | | | | | |TIME : ________________ | | ...
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...[pic] [pic][pic] [pic] [pic] I.I- Why change is important...............................I I.II- Definition of change management...............I I.III- Organization’s function...............................II I.IV- Organizations mission statement.............III IV- Organizations aims.....................................III [pic] …...................IV II.I- Make urgency happen..................................IV II.II- Create a motivated and diverse team …....V II.III- Showing directives for change …..............V II.IV- Exemplifying the steps for success..........V II.V- Face barriers................................................VI II.VI- Search for short-time results.....................VI II.VII- Moving on to change.................................VI II.VIII- Assuring the change is implemented in the company...............................................................VI II.IX-SWOT Analysis..........................................VII II.X-TOWS Analysis.......................................VIII-IX [pic] …................X [pic] IV.I- First recommendation..................................XI IV.II- Second recommendation ….......................XI IV.III- Third recommendation …..........................XI IV.IV- Forth recommendation ….........................XI IV.V- Final recommendation...............................XI [pic] …..........................XII [pic] I.I Why change is important. We have learned from history...
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...Warehousing Team assignment – 2015 Team assignment consists of Team report and team presentation Weighting: 25% (15% for the report and 10% for the presentation) Team report There are new and exciting developments that are taking place in the Business Intelligence literature that is constantly shaping the use and implementation of Business Intelligence and Data warehousing tools and applications in organizations. The primary objective of this research project is to provide a forum for students to investigate the practice, approaches and understanding of business intelligence as it is being applied in the real world to realize organizational objectives. Some of the potential topics are: * Development and acquisition approaches for emerging decision support environments * Challenges in harness big data and relevant analytics for effective, timely inputs to strategic decision making * Cultural, social and political dimensions of the adoption of emerging decision support technologies * Data and business analytics in the cloud * Emerging technology for real-time analytics * Knowledge-driven analytics: application of emerging technologies such as text mining, data mining, rule-based systems, semantic web technologies, or in-memory databases to address specific decision support needs * Mobile technologies for decisions analytics and support There are two deliverables to this project. 1. First is the Proposal. Your team will propose...
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...Spend Analysis Lisa Fitzsimons BUS 307 Instructor Peter Thuleen 02/23/2015 Spend analysis is a process that an organization can perform that will allow them to identify wasteful spending and increase company profits. A spend analysis will also show spending patterns and bottlenecks that occur, which will increase company long-term savings (Sharfaei, 2013). This process may be difficult and time consuming, however, with cooperation with each department and proper data analysis and presentation, a spend analysis will be extremely beneficial in the long run. The following information describes what a spend analysis is, skills and tools needed for the data analysis, how a Six Sigma methodology will help with a spend analysis, and what makes up the analysis team who will work to create the spend analysis. What is a Spend Analysis Spend analysis is the application of quantitative techniques to purchasing data in an effort to better understand spending patterns and identify opportunities for improvement. This process involve collecting, cleansing, classifying, and analyzing the expenditures within an organization with the purpose of reducing procurement costs, improving organizational efficiency, and monitoring organizational compliance (Bozarth & Handfield, 2012). A spend analysis can be used to identify a number of different questions regarding where is the bulk of company spending, how much is the organization spending with their suppliers, and does the organization...
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...Material Flow Improvement By Léo Belime Diploma work No. 35/2010 At Department of Materials and Manufacturing Technology CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY Göteborg, Sweden Diploma work in the Master in Production Engineering Program Performed at: Société des Ateliers Louis Vuitton Supervisor(s): Florence Laprade Société des Ateliers Louis Vuitton 36100 Issoudun - France Peter Almström Department of Materials and Manufacturing Technology Chalmers University of Technology, SE-412 96 Gothenburg Marie-Agnès Girard Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint Etienne 42023 Saint Etienne - France Examiner: Bertil Gustafsson Department of Materials and Manufacturing Technology Chalmers University of Technology, SE-412 96 Gothenburg Material flow improvement Léo Belime © Léo Belime 2010 Diploma work no 35/2010 Department of Materials and Manufacturing Technology Chalmers University of Technology SE-412 96 Gothenburg Sweden Telephone + 46 (0)31-772 1000 Chalmers Repro Service Gothenburg, Sweden 2010 Material flow improvement Léo Belime Department of Materials and Manufacturing Technology Chalmers University of Technology Contents Abstract ............................................................................................................................. i Acknowledgements........................................................................................................... ii Foreword ..............................................................
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...and associating budgets and timelines for completion Implementing the project plan, carefully to make sure the plan is being managed according to plan. The different phases of a project lifecycle are as below: Project Lifecycle 1. Project Initiation Project Initiation in simple terms is: starting up the project. We initiate a project by defining its reason, business goals, and scope. The reason for initiating it, and the propose solution to be implemented. We will also put together a project team, define early milestones, and early budget proposal. With the above information we can move on and perform an end of Phase study in order to get a GO No GO decision. 2. Project Planning Once we define the project and assemble the project team, we are ready to enter the in depth Project Planning phase. This involves creating the "PMP", Project Management Plan, in order to guide the team during the project development and after. We will define the Required Skills of development team. Define Non-labor Resources, Risks plan, detailed action items and milestones. 3. Execution and controlling The most important issue in this phase is to ensure project activities are properly executed and controlled. During the execution phase, the planned solution is...
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