Part A: Project Management Leadership – Theory-Practice Gap Discussion Module: Project Management Date Due: 20th May at 12am No. of Words: 1976 (excluding references) Word Limit: 2000 Content 1. Introduction 1 2. Definition of leadership and project leadership 1 3. Project Management Best Practice 2 4. Leadership in practice (case-study) 3 5. Conclusion 6 References 7 1. Introduction Leadership
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2 Lay floor screed Figure 1.1 WBS for garage construction project Each task in a project should be identified by a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) code. A WBS is a tree or hierarchical structure which is one of the foundations of a project plan. MS Project refers to the tasks at the top level of the hierarchy (such as 5.0 Drains) as ‘summary tasks’ and lower levels tasks as subtasks. MS Project will assign WBS codes for you‚ but we will set it up ourselves. The WBS for the garage construction project
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Engineer Technical Writer Network Specialist/Administrator VAR Chapter 10 Exception Report Summary Report Ad Hoc Report Transaction Processing Decision Support System Batch Processing vs. OLTP Expert System Neural Network PERT WBS Gantt Chart SDLC/Phases of the SDLC order of phases main purpose/activities in each phase main deliverable from each phase Centralized vs Distributed Processing Unit Testing Integration Testing System Testing Chapter 11 Database Database Models
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Tool(s) Justification for Tool Project Integration Management WBS Use WBS to define each project such as recruiting‚ success planning‚ e-forms‚ employee database‚ time cards for payroll‚ performance review‚ position control‚ employee self service‚ communication‚ and government compliance . Created the WBS for each of these projects and allocate to the appropriate departments. Project Scope Management WBS Use the WBS created in Integration to look at the scope of each project. Once the
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1. SCOPE MANAGEMENT Planning is critical phase in a project life cycle. Although that is the case project control is pivotal and it goes through the project phase. Without proper project control in any project‚ failure possibilities are fairly high in such project. The intention of scope management is to define and outline the intention of any project. Scope management is defined by the PMBOK as; ‘..... the processes required to ensure that the project includes all the work required‚ and only
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Does this information (WBS) allow you to define any milestones of the project? Why or why not? What are they? The information that provided in part 1 alone is not enough to allow the project team in defining any milestones of the project. Actually the hierarchical breakdown of the activity can be designed out of this information but for defining milestones; the project team may well require the following: * Duration of Activity/Activities/Group of Activities that is the time allocated to each
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slides Review – Estimate & Schedule Four primary steps Define work to be done (WBS) Estimate size Estimate effort Build schedule Review - WBS Types: Process‚ product‚ hybrid Formats: Outline or graphical org chart Shows hierarchical task relationships High-level version does not show dependencies or durations What hurts most is what’s missing Becomes input to many things‚ esp. schedule Approaches to building WBS Review – Estimation Size Estimation Techniques Bottom-up vs. Top-down Analogy
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Read page 55 of the textbook "Project Management in Practice - Project Selection for Spent Nuclear Fuel Cleanup." Develop a weighted project selection model with a minimum of 10 criteria to aid in the selection of the correct project selection. Assign fictitious scores to each criteria for each of the 4 projects and total the scores. Make a recommendation based upon the scores. The numeric model helps us in developing the project by taking the decision on the number of evaluations/selection models
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Simon Riha Cohort 13‚ Aviation Management Emirates Aviation College May 14‚ 2012 Table of Contents Introduction 3 Business Case Assessment 4 Project Planning and Scheduling 8 Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) 9 Project Organization Structure 11 Network Diagram and Gantt Chart 12 Project Monitoring and Control 15 Project Risk and Reducing Uncertainty 21 Conclusion 24 Reference List 25 Appendix 1: A BOSCARD Table Example 26 Introduction This coursework examines development
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ADS512: PROJECT MANAGEMENT PROJECT ASSIGNMENT SEMESTER JANUARY – MAY 2011 Introduction The term assignment is based on and adapted from a real-life project that is currently operational in Malaysia. Your tutor will show you how to get access to the assignment. Since you will be working with a real-life project‚ serious considerations should be given to your work. This is an exceptional opportunity for you to put together all that you have learned thus far‚ over and beyond the Project
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