1 Understanding Project Management Learning Objectives By the end of this chapter‚ you should be able to: • • focus • • Identify the differences between functional and project management. Explain why project management is necessary in business today. Name the major organizational structures and explain the advantages and disadvantages of each. Identify the requirements of an effective project management system. Many people become project managers by accident. Someone assigns them to manage a
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0965-9978/97/$17.00 Audio/visual information in construction project control Osama Abudayyeh Department of Construction Engineering‚ Material Engineering and Industrial Design‚ College of Engineering and Applied Sciences‚ Western Michigan University‚ Kalamazoo‚ MI 49008‚ USA (Received 11 July 1995; revised version received 24 July 1996; accepted 4 October 1996) The proper design of an information system in support of project management is crucial to the successful and effective management
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ANSWERS Q.1 - List of 6 different legislation‚ organizational policies or procedures that may impact on project implementation are as follows: a. The cabinet approval process. b. Office of Parliamentary counsel. c. Consultation wiyh Local Government and National Competition Policy. d. Consultation with other key Stakeholders. e. Tabling in Parliament. f. Timing of Commencement of the Act. Q.2 - Project stakeholders are individuals and organizations that are actively involved in the project‚ or whose
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Page，1/1 http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0471392030.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg 2003-8-12 CONTENTS PREFACE xv ABOUT THE AUTHOR | CHAPTER 1 xxi 1 The Nature of Information Technology Projects Global Technology Solutions 1 Introduction 2 How This Book Is Organized 3 The Software Crisis 4 Why IT Projects Fail 4 Improving the Likelihood of Success 6 A Socio-Technical Approach 6 A Project-Management Approach 7 A Knowledge-Management Approach 8 The Context of Project Management 9 What Is a Project
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2.0 THE PROJECT ENVIRONMENT 2.1 The Projects: Projects are products of ideas initiated to fulfill a need or exploit an opportunity. The Project Environment also known as Project World are the external factors influencing projects. The single most important influence on any project is whether or not it is being carried out by Public Sector usually undertaken by government to provide public service or Private Sector usually undertaken by individual companies or consortia to
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Contents Introduction 3 Step 1: identifying the main problems or questions 4 1.1. Summary of Eden Project 4 1.2. Problem Statement and main problems 5 1.3. Description of the strategy development of the Eden Project 5 Step 2: gathering the facts 7 2.1. Analysis of Eden’s strategic capability 7 2.1.1. Strategic capabilities and competitive advantage 7 2.1.2. Kay’s distinctive capabilities 8 2.2. Analysis of Eden Project’s environment 9 2.2.1. The PESTEL framework 10 2.2.2
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______________________________________________________________________________ Orange Creek‚ Inc. NSA Capstone Project Charter ______________________________________________________________________________ Prepared By: Noel Wilson Date of Publication: March 26‚ 2014 Revision History Version Date Author(s) Revision Notes 1.0 3/26/14 Noel Wilson No revisions Table of Contents Project Description 3 Project Objectives 3 Project Scope 3 In Scope: 3 Out of Scope: 3 Deliverables Produced: 3 Stakeholders:
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Any project must be well planned especially if a number of people and activities will be involved. It is the task of the project management to ensure that various tasks required in the project are completed in time. Operational researchers developed a method of scheduling complex projects shortly after the Second World War. This scheduling is called network analysis and is usually known as Critical Path Analysis (CPA). While Program Evaluation Review Technique (PERT) will analyze the involved
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Project Termination 1 Project Termination Types of terminations How and why projects terminate Typical termination activities Need for a project history 2 All Things Come to an End ... Termination – impact on technical success – Impact on other areas – Plan and execute termination with care 3 When Do Projects Terminate? Upon successful completion‚ – or . . . When the organization is no longer willing to invest 4 Most Common Reasons Projects Terminate
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Project Charter Project Name: Membership and Monitoring Information System Project Objectives This project will develop a new form of system for membership and monitoring services to reinforce the vision for Hardrock Fitness Gym. The subsequent system will ensure that the membership of the customers will highly be monitored and the management and usage of entity’s equipment can be well supervised. The result of this anticipated project will be: 1. Construct an in-house information system which
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