MGMT8631 – INTRODUCTION TO

PROJECT MANAGEMENT
- MANUFACTURING

PROFESSOR: SLAWOMIR RAPALA

SEMESTER: WINTER 2024
AGENDA

 Overview of project performance domains

 Overview of models, methods and artifacts
PRINCIPLES OF
PROJECT
MANAGEMENT AND
PERFORMANCE
DOMAINS
 PERFORMANCE DOMAINS

• Stakeholder definition

• Stakeholder Analysis

• Examples of project
stakeholders
PERFORMANCE
DOMAINS
IDENTIFY STAKEHOLDERS

 Projects are highly influenced by stakeholders

 According to PMI project stakeholders are: “individuals, groups, or organizations that may affect, to be affected by,
or perceive itself to be affected by a decision, activity, or outcome of a project”
 We need to identify stakeholders, create and Stakeholder Register
 We also need to analyse stakeholders and create a Stakeholder Engagement Plan
 Helps communicate properly and in a timely manner with stakeholders

Review Stakeholder Analysis template

STAKEHOLDER ANALYSIS

Keep Satisfied Manage Closely

High
 All stakeholders must be identified

Power
 Analyze power/interest grid, power /
influence grid, or impact / influence Monitor Keep Informed
grid
 Power is the level of authority

Low
 Interest is the level of concern
 Influence is the ability to cause changes
to the project. Low Interest High
 PERFORMANCE
DOMAINS

• Project manager
• Project Team
EXAMPLE: RESPONSIBILITY ASSIGNMENT MATRIX

 Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM), shows the

project resources assigned to each work package
 RACI chart is one type of a RAM chart
 Note that there is only one person accountable for
each activity
 There must be an accountable person for each
activity
 Can be in text format (Roles, responsibility, authority
forms)

Project Management Institute, A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, (PMBOK® Guide) – Sixth Edition,
Project Management Institute Inc., 2017 Fig 9-4
DEVELOP TEAM
 This is done by:
 Develop Team is to enhance project performance b:
 improving teamwork
 Enhanced interpersonal skills
 Motivation
 Improved project performance
 Using soft skills (leadership, negotiation, conflict
resolution, communication, etc.)
 Establishing ground rules
 Motivating
 Influencing
 Team building activities
 Trainings
 Rewards
 Performance assessments
PERFORMANCE DOMAINS

• Deliverable

• Development approach

• Cadence

• Project Phase

• Project life cycle

PERFORMANCE DOMAINS

Topics to consider as part of planning

Scope Uncertainty

Schedule Procurement

Budget Stakeholders

Resources Estimate

Quality Accuracy

Communication Precision
 PERFORMANCE DOMAINS
• Project processes

• Balancing different constraints and trade-offs

• Team focus

• Removing obstacles

• Procurement and resources

• Measuring performance and status reporting

• Managing change and scope

• Managing knowledge
 PERFORMANCE DOMAINS
Requirement management

Work packages and

activities

Work Breakdown
Structure

Quality requirements

Cost of Quality

Delivery; verification and

Validation
 PERFORMANCE DOMAINS
• Metric, SMART Metrics

• Baseline- what a base line is

and its use

• Dashboard

• Key Performance Indicators

• Schedule variance and

schedule performance index

• Cost variance and cost

performance index

• Resource Utilization
DASHBOARD
EXAMPLE
 PERFORMANCE DOMAIN
• Uncertainty

• Ambiguity

• Complexity

• Volatility

• Risk

• Threats

• Opportunities

• Risk identification and prioritization

• Risk response planning

 PERFORMANCE DOMAINS
Why tailor?

What to tailor?

Tailoring process
MODELS, METHODS AND ARTIFACTS

 “A models is a thinking strategy to explain a process, framework, or phenomenon.”

 “A method is the means for achieving an outcome, output, result, or project deliverable.”
 “An artifact can be a template, document, output, or project deliverable.”
MODELS,
METHODS AND
ARTIFACTS
MODEL EXAMPLE, TUCKMAN LADDER

 Forming
 Storming
 Norming
 Performing
 Adjourning
METHOD EXAMPLE, SWOT ANALYSIS

 Strengths
 Weaknesses
 Opportunities
 Threats
ARTIFACT EXAMPLE, PROJECT CHARTER

 Review project charter template in the shell