Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Chap2 Resume
Chap2 Resume
Chap2 Resume
- Initiating
- Planning
- Executing
- Monitoring & Controlling
- Closing
Project integration management ensures to connect all the dots of processes in a structured manner irrespective of the
variation in methodologies to successfully complete the project
The main objective of project management is the coordination within all the stakeholders of the project to ensure the
team is working in the right direction to reach the same goal
A stakeholder a person or organisation who is affected by or impacted by what you are trying to do
Stakeholders may also exert influence over the project, its deliverables, and the project team in order to achieve a set of
outcomes that satisfy strategic business objectives or other needs.
Project Charter : A document issued by senior management that provides the project manager with the authority to
apply organizational resources to project activities.
It contains : ◼ Business need ◼ Project objectives ◼ Project deliverables ◼ Assumptions ◼ Constraints ◼ Key staff ◼
Written authorization
Process : a
defined set of avtivities described through a series of steps and further broken down into tasks to bring a desired result .
Types of processes
◼ Product-oriented processes
◼ Business-oriented processes
1- Plan : creating a plan that documents how the project scope will be defined, validated , controlled.
2- Collect requirements : determining, documenting, and managing stakeholders needs and requirements.
3- Define scope: developing a detailed description of the project and product.
4- Create WBS: Subdividing project deliverables and project work into smaller, more manageable components.
5- Validate scope: formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables.
6- Control scope : monitoring the status of the project and product scope and managing changes to the scope
baseline.
◼ To provide a general description of the sum of the products and services to be provided by the project
◼ May make explicit some exclusions that, based on the audience, would be assumed to be part of the project
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS):
- A deliverable oriented grouping of project elements which organizes and defines the total scope of the project.
- Each descending level represents an increasingly detailed definition of a project component.
- Project components may be products or services.
Using the WBS to Estimate Cost:
◼ Project manager establishes work requirements by defining the ◼ What—“shalls” and “wills” ◼ When—sequence ◼
Why—dependencies
◼ Functional managers estimate cost by determining ◼ How—equipment and methods ◼ Who—type and level of
expertise ◼ Where—location, department