Project Management Carlos F. Amaral 01-07-2013 1. Discuss the primary function of a project plan. According to the Project Management Book of Knowledge‚ the project plan is "...a formal‚ approved document used to guide both project execution and project control. The primary uses of the project plan are to document planning assumptions and decisions‚ facilitate communication among stakeholders‚ and document approved scope‚ cost‚ and schedule baselines
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(www.projectinsight.net) Looking at Task 1 our project is to build sustainable school kitchen and restaurant. This project will be demonstrated gradually in this report. Introduction Sustainable school restaurant is not an easy job to achieve in short time‚ but is in longer time with help from government and support from local community. Government long Aim is to create by 2020 sustainable school in all country‚ especially city schools. Healthy food and drink should by produce in eco friendly
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Djenane Jeanty Project Management Context Professor C. Lennon Module V 11.17.12 Abstract Project managers carefully manage slack on sensitive resource-limited projects (Larson and Gray‚ p.295). If possible‚ they will add slack at the end of the project by committing to a completion date that goes beyond the scheduled date. Eliyahu Goldratt (1997) advocates an alternative approach to managing slack. He championed the “theory of constraints” and has coined the term “critical-chain” recognizing
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Importance of Team Management skills for a Project Manager How can one define Team Management in the sense that it can be understood easily and clearly? What are the critical components for effective team building? Team management is simply handling your team in a way that the desired task or mission is achieved by avoiding the conflicts that might occur in the process. A good project manager has effective team management skills. He is the driving force behind the project and is responsible
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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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TYPES OF PROJECT CONSTRAINTS Project constraints delay the start of project activities. Three project constraint need to be considered in scheduling. 1. Technological or Logical Constraints: These constraints show the sequence in which project activities must occur. A project network framing a house might how three activities i-e (1) pour foundation‚ (2) build frame‚ (3) cover roof. All of thee three activities are in sequence because each activity depend on previous one. We can say that
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Blue Spider Case 1) If you were Gary Anderson would you have accepted this project after the director stated that it would be his baby all the way? Despite Henry Gable’s very apparent shadiness I would probably have taken the project too due to the backing that the project has. Even though the project had issues‚ based on all we have learned in project management‚ it is rare that a project has the amount of attention and backing from top executives‚ as well as‚ strong resources from the functional
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Chapter 1 Review Question 1. Define a project. What are five characteristics that help differentiate projects from other function carried out in the daily operations of the organization? A project is a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product‚ service‚ or result. Five characteristics: 1. An established objective. 2. A defined life span with a beginning and an end. 3. Usually‚ the involvement of several department and professionals. 4. Typically‚ doing something that has never
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You are the project manager for the project you selected and identified in the prior assignments. Using your Microsoft Project software‚ sketch out your action plan. Use the action plan to develop the work breakdown schedule (WBS) as follows: • Create a list of between 5–10 major deliverables that need to be undertaken and completed‚ in the general order of how they would occur. This is Level 1 of the action plan. • Next‚ break out each of the Level 1 deliverables into 5–10 activities. This is
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Student Name: EHIZOKHALE Omotuemen Student Number: H00018999 Your Classrooms: RM module: LAUR-905 DA Classroom: Student Support Manager (SSM) & Email Address: Name: Ruben Salcedo eCampus Email: Ruben.Salcedo@my.ohecampus.com Time Zone: GMT +1 How Do We Contact You by Email? Your eCampus email address: ehizokhale.omotuemen@my.ohecampus.com DISSERTATION ADVISOR (and eCampus email): Lu Liu (lu.liu@my.ohecampus.com) GDI (and eCampus email): Lucía Morales (lucia
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