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Project management Principles of project management

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Project management Principles of project management

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    1. Sustainable Project Management 1 Project management Principles of project management

    2. Sustainable Project Management 2 Project management

    3. Sustainable Project Management 3 Project management Principles of project management PM is the process of managing, allocating, and timing available resources to achieve the desired goal of a project in an efficient and expedient manner. PM is the planning, scheduling and controlling of project activities to meet project objectives. PM is widely recognized as a practical way of ensuring that projects meet objectives and products are delivered on time, within budget and to correct quality specification, while at the same time controlling or maintaining the scope of the project at the correct level.

    4. Sustainable Project Management 4 Project management PM knowledge areas Project Integration Management Project Scope Management Project Time Management Project Cost Management Project Quality Management Project Human Resource Management Project Communications Management Project Risk Management Project Procurement Management

    5. Sustainable Project Management 5 Project management Principles of project management Project management is about influencing tomorrow. Today has already happened and yesterday is gone. (PROACTIVE) Decisions affecting tomorrow can only be made on information available today. Project management is about managing a set of relationships over time and about understanding people.

    6. Sustainable Project Management 6 Project management Project managers human factors Leadership Negotiation Team Building Motivation Empowerment Relationship Management Communication Decision Making

    7. Sustainable Project Management 7 Projects progress quickly until they are 90% complete. Then they remain at 90% complete forever. When things are going well, something will go wrong. When things just cant get worse, they will. When things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something. If project content is allowed to change freely, the rate of change will exceed the rate of progress. Project teams detest progress reporting because it manifests their lack of progress. Project management Laws of project management

    8. Sustainable Project Management 8 Project management Project managers Whats involved Facilitate or enable others to perform. Must be commercially aware. Must be risk aware many uncertainties. Have the breadth and depth of skills to deal with new problems without having to draw on experience alone. To be dynamic, proactive, and continue to look forward. Decisions affecting tomorrow must be made today, only on the information available today Get by on the best possible information.

    9. Sustainable Project Management 9 Project management relationships between pm and clients Many customers or clients are inexpert and need someone to help them secure their business objectives or goals. Project Managers can often act as clients representative or agent. Project management is about ensuring that needs project objectives - are translated into achievable actions. Project managers need to understand the business needs core and non-core businesses.

    10. Sustainable Project Management 10 Project management PM services Who Provides Project management Services? Clients internally. Management consultants. Subsidiaries of other consult/ contractor organizations. Specialist companies.

    11. Sustainable Project Management 11 Project management purpose of procurement In construction, there are many phases that a project passes through (Project Cycle). Each will demand a different approach in terms of leadership. Project Management should make that affair seamless and yet transparent. PM dynamic, proactive and persons who look forward all the time.

    12. Sustainable Project Management 12 Project management the project cycle

    13. Sustainable Project Management 13 Project Management Life Cycle

    14. Sustainable Project Management 14 Project management scope, quality, time and cost

    15. Sustainable Project Management 15 Project management Objectives and critical success factors Projects are often defined in terms of quality, cost and time. Most clients expect to obtain the best of all three at the same time. What is the reality? Understanding the relationship between these three can lead to project success.

    16. Sustainable Project Management 16 Project management CSF and KPI in PM At the highest level there are project goals or objectives. These are achieved if one knows what the critical success factors (CSF) are and how to achieve them. Key performance indicators (KPI) help you measure performance of a project or process.

    17. Sustainable Project Management 17 Project management Exercise: QCT Define the most realistic position within a triangle (where the vertices are marked for quality, cost and time) for the following project types: hotels, shops, offices, schools, hospitals, airport extensions, factories and relief roads.

    18. Sustainable Project Management 18 A PERT chart is a graphical network model that depicts a projects tasks and the relationships between those tasks. A GANTT chart is a simple horizontal bar chart that depicts project tasks against a calendar. Each bar represents a named project task. The tasks are listed vertically in the left-hand column. The horizontal axis is a calendar timeline. Project management Tools of trade: PERT and GANTT

    19. Sustainable Project Management 19 Project management Why Projects Fail? Most failures have been put down to: Poor project specification Unrealistic timescales Timescales that are too long Inappropriate staff Failure to manage user expectations Failure to manage the change required

    20. Sustainable Project Management 20 Project management Summary Project Management is about understanding relationships and handling them over time. It is a pragmatic discipline in which the client or customer is the most important. It is all about balancing needs and available resources. Project is a group of activities that have been performed in a logical sequence to meet present objectives outlined in the project. Project Management is: making the project happen and it also planning and controlling your project. Good project management is a successful project.

    21. Sustainable Project Management 21 Project management Summary II

    22. Sustainable Project Management 22 Project management Summary III

    23. Sustainable Project Management 23 Project management The Challenge

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