INTRODUCTION TO

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

OBM255 OFFICE SOFTWARE

APPLICATION
The Project Goal
Project management is the process of
planning, organizing and managing tasks
and resources to accomplish a defined
objective, usually within constraint time,
resources or cost
Project Definition

Project
Defined sequence of steps
that achieve an identified
goals
 Management Definition

MANAGEMENT

Art or skill used to blend together

the time, resources or cost in order
to set and achieve the goals of the
organization
Project Management Process Group

01 02 03
BUILD TRACK CLOSE
Build the plan Track and manage the Close the project
plan
 A project is:

1 2 3 4

A temporary Having a defined Undertaken to meet Usually to bring

endeavor beginning and end
Model
particular goals and about beneficial
Frequently your initial
objectives
font choice is taken change or added
value.
 Most Common Terms

Project An employee who plans and organizes

Manager the resources necessary to complete a
project

Are required to carry out the project

Resources tasks. They can be people, equipment,
facilities, funding or anything else
capable of definition (usually other than
labor) required for the completion of a
project activities
 Most Common Terms

Uncertain event or condition that, if it

Risk occurs, has a positive or negative effect
on a project’s objectives

The work that needs to be accomplished

Project to deliver of product, service, or result
Scope with specified features and function
 Most Common Terms

The standard of something as measured

Quality against other things of a similar kind.
 Most Common Terms

A reference point marking a major

Milestones event in a project and used to
monitor the projects’ progress.
Any task with zero duration is
automatically displayed as a
milestone
 Most Common Terms

Phases
Group of related tasks that
completes a major step in a project

Tasks
An activity that has a beginning and
an end

Subtasks
A sub activity that has a beginning
and an end
 Most Common Terms

WBS Hierarchical list of the project’s

(work phases, tasks and milestone
breakdown
structure)
A task whose start or finish date
determines the start or finish date
Predecessor of its successor task
Task Before Date of start determine Start date of
predecessor successor task

Successor
A task whose start or finish date is
driven by its predecessor task
Replacement Task
 Dependency

Four common dependency:

1. Start to Start
2. Finish to Start
3. Start to Finish
4. Finish to Finish
 Dependency: Start to Start

The start of one task triggers the start of the

second task

Examples:
A book author starts writing a manuscript. One
day after the author submits the first chapter, the
editor starts revising the manuscript
 Dependency: Start to Finish

The most common

After the predecessor task finishes, the
successor task starts

Examples:
After the concrete is cured, the carpenters start
to frame the house
 Dependency: Finish to Start

One task that continues only as long as another

task in progress
Dependency: Finish to Finish

Most people’s concept

The predecessor occurs after the successor.
And the start of the predecessor controls the
finish of the successor

Example:
Conference registration must start whether the
registration booth is ready or not.
 Dependency
Dependency Abbreviation Explanation
Type
Finish-to-Start FS Task 1 must finish
before task 2 can start
Start-to-Start SS Task 1 must start
before task 2 can start
Finish-to- FF Task 1 must finish
Finish before task 2 can
finish
Start-to-Finish SF Task 1 must start
before task 2 can
finish
 Understand Task
Dependencies
• Four task dependencies define the relationships
between tasks in a project.
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