Q1. Definition of project management Answer: A project can be considered to any series of activities or task that have a specific objective to be completed within certain period of time ‚ have definite starting and ending dates‚ have financial limitation‚ and have lack of some sorts of resources i.e. efficient personnel‚ equipment and technological support‚ as well as money. Project management is the discipline of planning‚ organizing‚ and managing resources to bring about the successful
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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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Project ManagementTop Down/Bottom Up methods Consensus methods Snr/middle managers’ guess total project time & cost Discussing/arguing to reach a decision on best guestimates Firms seeking greater precision: Delphi Method: Group decision process of chance of certain events occurring Exp. familiar with project use insight/exp. guessing project costs/times Ratio methods Macro methods use ratios to guess time & cost E.g. contractors using no. of sq. ft. to guess cost/time to build
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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 scope is the parameter of the project. It defines what are the deliverables‚ requirements and expectations for the project and provides a baseline to exclude unrelated works. The project manager’s job is to ensure all necessary works for the project success are included. And this process is referring to as the project scope management. Project scope management involves six processes‚ which are planning scope management‚ collecting requirements‚ defining scope‚ creating WBS‚ validating scope
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MANAGING PROJECTS Name: Course: Professor: Institution: City and state: Date: 1. Draw the network diagram (use activity on the node) 2. Explain how you determined the timing of activities and the total float. From the diagram above‚ the ES or earliest start time is zero for activity A. Therefore‚ ES equals the EF or earliest finish time of the predecessor. An example can be from the diagram above as ES of C activity is EF of activity B i.e. 9 days. Earliest finish time
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PROJECT CHARTER Afternet Systems Warehouse Move Document Revision #: 01 Date of Issue: January 30/200X Project Manager: Table of Contents Business Case.............................................................................................................2 Project Objectives ......................................................................................................2 Project Scope .....................................................................................
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The Project Charter What do I think? Every successful project needs a plan‚ a vision before start. The PMBOK definition says that “The project charter is a document issued by the project initiator or sponsor that formally authorizes the existence of a project‚ and provides the project manager with the authority to apply organizational resources to project activities.” 1 The project charter it essentially serves as a compass to keep the team firmly pointed at goals. It’s the foundation of a project
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GREEN ACRES /A LEAN PLAN Prepared by: Group B Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Course Requirements for Sustainability Project Management PROJ 591-68026 12/16/2012 A LEAN PLAN Green Acres will identify a Lean Operations Plan and ways to reduce or the wastes produced in our production or project and service development. To be lean: • Identify customers and specify value‚ recognize that even a small fraction of our efforts and time
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CLOTHING STORE PROJECT PLAN R.E.A.L. Girlz Clothing Store Project Plan Nikita S. Carter DeVry University Professor Jorge Tenoria November 2012 Table of Contents Pages 1. Executive Summary 3 2. Scope Statement 4 a. Goal Definition……………………………………………………………………..4 b. Goals that address the mission……………………………………………………..4 c. Goals that address self-sustainment………………………………………………...5 d. Objective definition………………………………………………………………...5 e. Project Objectives…………………………………………………………………
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