STUDY GUIDE EMPM5103 Principles of Project Management CENTRE FOR GRADUTE STUDIES STUDY GUIDE EMPM5103 Principles of Project Management First Edition (September 2011) Writer: Dr David Goh Publisher: Centre for Instructional Design & Technology Open University Malaysia First Published: September 2011 Copyright © Open University Malaysia (OUM) All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced in any form or by any means without the written permission of
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Project Management Paper MGT/437 November 3‚ 2010 Project Management Paper A project can be a wide variety of activities. According to Kerzner‚ 2006‚ a project can be considered to be any series of activities and tasks that have a specific objective to be completed within certain specifications‚ has defined start and end dates‚ has funding limits (if applicable)‚ consume human and nonhuman resources (i.e.‚ money‚ people‚ equipment)‚ and are multifunctional (i.e.‚ cut across several
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Control With Risk August 16‚ 2011 Week 2 DQ As a project manager of a bicycle manufacturing company‚ we have five operations which are: cutting‚ forming‚ machining‚ welding‚ and the assembly. As we start manufacturings we notice some defects in our products. As a result we are going to find a way to fix the problems. There are five quality metrics and they are (Sanghera‚ 2010): * Cost performance * Schedule performance * Defect frequency * Failure rate * Text coverage
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THESIS Customer Relationship Management Jens Berfenfeldt Luleå University of Technology MSc Programmes in Engineering Industrial Business Administration Department of Business Administration and Social Sciences Division of Industrial marketing and e-commerce 2010:111 CIV - ISSN: 1402-1617 - ISRN: LTU-EX--10/111--SE "If growth is what you ’re after‚ you won ’t learn much from complex measurements of customer satisfaction or retention. You simply need to know what your customers tell
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Ivailo.peev@abv.bg PM 401 – Project management Aris Zogopoulos Final Exam March 5‚ 2012 1. Determine bread-and-butter‚ pearls‚ oysters and white elephants projects. (15%) Developing project portfolio matrix is the most important part of creating a project. Fours quadrants determine the matrix - Bread-and-butter‚ pearls‚ oysters and white elephants. Bread-and-butters project means evolutionary improvements to current products and service and it is low risk project with law reward. Pearls
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CURRICULUM AREA ENGINEERING BTEC HIGHER NATIONAL IN ENGINEERING UNIT CODE J601/0302 LEVEL 4 CREDITS 15 UNIT NUMBER / TITLE 37 Management of Projects OUTCOME: 1 ASSESSMENT TITLE: Assignment 1 – Phases of a Wind Farm Project STUDENT NAME ___________________________________________ Submission Date 9/4/13 Date Handed In Date Given Out 5/3/13 I certify that the work submitted for this assignment is my own. I am aware of the anti-plagiarism and submission policies of the college. Student Signature
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the societal forces that have contributed to the need for project management. Exponential expansion of human knowledge‚ increasing number of demands or global consumption‚ managing complex projects are societal forces that had contributed to the need for project management. Increase in the demand or the global consumption leads to the need of strong project management due to which it is leading to brainstorming for making the given project possible in a successful manner‚ this is ultimately leading
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Project Management Project management is a way of managing change‚ on everything from planning a wedding‚ the Olympics‚ educational goals‚ or improving business practices. It describes the activities that meet specific objectives to introduce a specified task or improve new or existing products and services. Effective projects have effective leaders and workers. And‚ effective project management requires a skilled project manager‚ and a vision‚ along with the resources‚ money‚ and time
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Human Resource Management: Performance Management Introduction The continuous development improvement of human resource potential requires a successful performance system. Schermerhorn (1999‚ Pg. 250) defined Performance Management System as a system that ensures performance standards and objectives are set‚ that performance is regularly assessed for accomplishments and that actions are taken to improve performance potential in the future. The process of formally assessing someone’s work accomplishments
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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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