Name: Project Management Credit Hours: 3 Section Number and Time: Section 1‚ Instructor: Dr. Mona Zoughaib Office: Phone: +961 3 69 62 56 E-mail: mzxx@aub.edu.lb Office Hours: Friday 5:30 – 6:30‚ or by appointment Required / Suggested Materials: Jeffrey K. Pinto‚ Project Management: Achieving a Competitive Advantage‚ Second Edition. Lecture Notes. Suggested: Kathy Schwalbe‚ An Introduction to Project Management‚ Fourth Edition Mantel‚ Meredith‚ Shafer and Sutton‚ Project Management
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The Role of the Project Manager A project manager is the person who has the overall responsibility for the successful initiation‚ planning‚ design‚ execution‚ monitoring‚ controlling and closure of a project. The job title is used in construction‚ petrochemical‚ architecture‚ information technology and many different industries that produce products and services. The project manager must have a combination of skills including an ability to ask penetrating questions‚ detect unstated assumptions
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service‚ or result. a) b) c) d) Program Process Project Portfolio 2. Which of the following is not a potential advantage of using good project management? a) b) c) d) Shorter development times Higher worker morale Lower cost of capital Higher profit margins 3. Which of the following is not an attribute of a project? a) b) c) d) Projects are unique Projects are developed using progressive elaboration Projects have a primary customer or sponsor Projects involve little uncertainty 4. Which of the following
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1. What is project management? Key understanding of Project Management in changing world How can a small business succeed in a rapidly changing world‚ with changing customer desires‚ new competitors‚ new technology‚ and new suppliers hitting us from all directions? The answer is project management. Project management helps us realize our dreams‚ take an advantage of opportunities‚ and solve our problems in changing times. We’ll put project management into simple language and learn how we can
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PROJECT MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE The Project Management Institute (PMI) website offers information that lets the user know how important project management is to the user. PMI is a project management firm that gives its consumers the tools and services that they need to complete and organize projects to produce the best result. The website is laid out to allow the user to see current projects‚ seminars offered‚ industry news and past projects. The content found on the following links of the website
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8 Project Management Methodologies and Standards I have decided to do a series of postings about Project Managementmethodologies and Project Management best practices. The purpose for this is not to replicate information that is already out there‚ but to inform‚ equip and empower business owners and service professionals about the project management profession and how to put it to use to sustain and grow their business. As an introduction to this I have 8 questions to help define what a methodologyand
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10 – 05 - 2013 To Professor: Peter Wong Student Name: Chiang Ting Hin Student No.: 3012 4305 Project Management – Assignment 2 1. Managing Risk 1.1) There are four steps of risk management process. First step is risk identification. Analyze the project to identify sources of risk Create a list of all possible risks via brainstorming‚ risk profiling and problem identification. Marco risks fist‚ then micro risks. Usually organization use risk breakdown structures in conjunction with
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Nature release THE ESSENTIALS OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT SECOND EDITION The Essentials of Project Management Second Edition Dennis Lock Gower O Dennis Lock 2001 A l rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced‚ l stored in a retrieval system‚ or transmitted in any form or by any means‚ electronic‚ mechanical‚ photocopying‚ recording or otherwise without the permission of the publisher. First published 1996 This edition published by Gower Publishing Limited Gower
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DECENTRALIZED PROJECT MANAGEMENT METHODOLOGY TARGET: TO AVOID ISSUES/LIMITATIONS IN MATRIX TYPE ORGANIZATIONS DESCRIPTION: In a Balanced Matrix Type Organization‚ Customer/Client Project Manager has a comparatively good Project control however‚ there are lots of limitations and issues can be occurred during project life cycle and product life cycle. Those are not limited to‚ 1. 2. 3. 4. Communication Gaps Delays in Activities Lot of Rework Unwanted/Unnecessary Projects and Project works Mainly
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Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology Volume 10‚ 2013 Project Management Principles Applied in Academic Research Projects Pollyana Notargiacomo Mustaro & Rogério Rossi Mackenzie Presbyterian University‚ São Paulo‚ SP‚ Brazil pollyana.mustaro@mackenzie.br rossirogerio@hotmail.com Abstract The achievement of academic research involves a series of steps and activities that must be managed in order to avoid delays‚ development problems (due to unforeseen risks) and even
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