IT212 – IT PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Lecture 1
Introduction to Project Management

MSLagmay
Objectives

• Identify the characteristics of a project

• Assess the need for project management
• Analyze the ways groups are organized into projects
Question:

Should the project team use a different method like

focus groups and interviews to collect ideas?
Good ideas are crucial to project success. It would make
sense to inform the project sponsor that you want to make
adjustments.

Quality is often a key factor in projects, as in customer or

sponsor satisfaction.

In fact, some refer to quadruple constraint of project

management.
How can you avoid the problems that occur when
you meet scope, time, and cost goal, but lose
sight of quality or customer satisfaction?

The answer is good project management which

includes more than meeting the triple constraint.
 Project Stakeholders

Stakeholders are the people involved in or affected by

project activities and include the project sponsor,
project team, support staff, customers, users,
suppliers, and even the opponents of the projects.
 Project Stakeholders

For example, building a new house is an example of a

project. There are several stakeholders involved in a
home construction project.
 Project Stakeholders

• Project Sponsors would be the potential

homeowner
• The Project Manager would normally be the
general contractor responsible for building the
house
• The Project Team would include the construction
workers, electricians, carpenters, and so on
 Project Stakeholders

• Support Staff might include the buyer’s employers,

the general contractor’s admin staff, and other
people who support other stakeholders
• The Suppliers would provide the wood, windows,
flooring materials, appliances and so on
• Opponents might be a neighbor who opposes the
construction or project
PM Knowledge Areas
 PM Knowledge Areas

PM Knowledge areas describe the key competencies

that project managers must develop.

The four core knowledge areas are project scope,

time, cost, and quality management.

They lead to specific project objectives.

 PM Knowledge Areas

• Project Scope Management involves defining and

managing all the work required to complete the project
successfully

• Project Time Management includes estimating how long

it will take to complete the work, developing an
acceptable project schedule, and ensuring timely
completion of the project
 PM Knowledge Areas

• Project Cost Management consists of preparing and

managing the budget for the project

• Project Quality Management ensures that the project

will satisfy the stated or implied needs for which it was
undertaken
 PM Knowledge Areas

The four facilitating knowledge areas of PM are

human resource, communications, risk, and
procurement management.

They are the processes through which the project

objectives are achieved.
 PM Knowledge Areas

• Project Human Resource Management is concerned

with making effective use of the people involved in the
project

• Project Communications Management involves

generating, collecting, disseminating, and storing project
information
 PM Knowledge Areas

• Project Risk Management includes identifying, analyzing,

and responding to risks related to the project

• Project Procurement Management involves acquiring or

procuring goods and services for a project from outside
the performing organization
 PM Knowledge Areas

• Project integration management, the ninth knowledge

area, is an overarching function that affects and is
affected by all of the other knowledge areas.
Project
Management
Tools and
Techniques
“Man is a tool-using animal.Without
tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.”

Thomas Carlyle

Project management tools and techniques assist

project managers and their teams in carrying out work
in all nine knowledge areas.
For example, some popular time management tools
and techniques include Gantt charts, project network
diagrams, and critical
path analysis.
Activity 1 (Max of 3):

• Find any example of a real project with a real project

manager. Feel free to use projects in the media (the
Olympics, television shows, movies, etc.) or a project from
your work, if applicable.
Activity 1 (Max of 3):

• Write a 200 word paper describing the project in terms of

its scope, time, and cost goals. Discuss what went right
and wrong on the project and the role of the project
manager and sponsor. Also describe if the project was a
success or not and why. Include at least one reference and
cite it on the last part.

• Present your work in class.