Project ManagementProject Management

Project ManagementProject Management

Planning MisconceptionsPlanningStakeholdersThe Project Life Cycle

InitiationPlanningProject Management ToolsExecutingMonitoring and ControllingClosing

Project ManagementProject Management

• Planning, organizing, and managing resources to successfully complete a project– Achieve all project goals– Comply with all project constraints

• Scope• Time• Budget

Planning Misconceptions Planning Misconceptions

It’s boring

It takes too long

It’s too hard

PlanningPlanning

The best laid schemes of mice and men often go awry.

Robert Burns, 1785 - Scottish Poet

PlanningPlanning

Planning QuestionsWhereWhenWhatWhomHow and Why

StakeholdersStakeholders

. . . all those who are involved, interested in, or affected by the project.

“Zombie stakeholders” keep coming back again and again, asking for changes.How can this be avoided?

The Project Life CycleThe Project Life Cycle

Planning, Executing, and Controlling form a loop

InitiatingInitiating

ClosingClosing

Project Life CycleProject Life Cycle

Architectural Program A written document that describes the design objectives, constraints, and criteria of the building project.

InitiatingInitiating

ClosingClosing

•Initiation PhaseClient Needs analysis Stakeholder input analysisFinancial analysis and budgetConstraintsArchitectural program

Project Life CycleProject Life Cycle

•PlanningCommunicationsQuality controlHuman resource managementProcurementCost managementSchedule

InitiatingInitiating

ClosingClosing

Project Management ToolsProject Management Tools

Project Organization Chart identifies and organizes everyone involved in the project.

Project Management ToolsProject Management Tools

Gantt Chart: A bar chart representation of a project schedule

Project Tasks . . .Project Tasks . . .

should have value rather than be pointless.

should be important to the entire team, not just one member.

are more powerful and achievable if they are tied to deliverables.

Be ready to articulate the value of any task to team members.

Project Life CycleProject Life Cycle

•Execution•Completing project tasks•Producing deliverables

InitiatingInitiating

ClosingClosing

Project Life Cycle Project Life Cycle

•Monitoring and ControllingMeasuring project activitiesMonitoring project variables

•Cost•Effort•Scope

Implement corrective action when needed

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ClosingClosing

Project Life Cycle Project Life Cycle

•ClosingFinalize all project activitiesArchive filesDocument lessons learned

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ClosingClosing

Project ManagementProject ManagementPlanning MisconceptionsPlanningStakeholdersThe Project Life Cycle

InitiationPlanningProject Management ToolsExecutingMonitoring and ControllingClosing

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