Project Management Concepts OPS 571 April 8‚ 2014 Professor Arun Iyengar Project Management Concepts Abstract Project management involves the planning‚ directing‚ and supervision of resources (people‚ materials‚ equipment) to perform a specific project. Three elements of a project includes the organizational structure‚ the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and the Statement of Work (SOW). This paper will describe the three structuring projects associated with a project which includes Pure Project
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20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 WBS Task Name Duration 1 Conveyor Belt Project 1.1 Hardware 1.1.1 Hardware specificaitons 1.1.2 hardware design 1.1.3 Hardware documentation 1.1.4 Prototypes 1.1.5 Order circuit boards 1.1.6 Assemble Preproduction models 1.2 Operating system 1.2.1 Kernel specifications 1.2.2 Drivers 1.2.2.1 Disk drives 1.2.2.2 Serial IO Drivers 1.2.3 Memory management 1.2.4 Operating system documentation 1.2.5 Network interface 1.3 Utilities
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International Journal of Contemporary Business Studies Vol: 3‚ No: 6. June‚ 2012 ISSN 2156-7506 Available online at http://www.akpinsight.webs.com A Review on the Role of Managerial Levers in Innovation Management Suriati Bt Zainal Abidin1 Sany Sanuri Bin Mokhtar2 Rushami Zien Bin Yusoff3 College of Business Universiti Utara Malaysia 06010 UUM Sintok‚ Kedah Darul Aman‚ MALAYSIA. 1‚ 2‚ 3 ABSTRACT Managerial levers are essential elements to ensure the synchronization between people and system
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of activities and the total float4 The project duration and the critical path..................................................................................................................................................................5 The earliest date the project can be completed given the starting date - Monday 7th May 2012..........................................................................5 The effect on the duration of the whole project if:.....................................
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2012104045 PROJECT METHODOLOGY I. Summary Project methodology is a project or study that could help manage the works of people and develop the creativity and imagination of the children. It is like a list of step by step process in every work‚ consisting of designs and plans that could help in making the project or work executable or manageable. Every details of the project are listed starting from the beginning up to until the end of the project. II. Opinion In my opinion‚ having a project methodology
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Pinteroffice memorandum to: | tANIA pARKER | from: | MOHAMMED ZOAHEB | subject: | ms project part 2 | date: | June 14‚ 2013 | cc: | [Name] | | | 1. Which if any of the resources are over allocated? * Marketing staff * R&D * Legal staff 2. Assume that the project is time constrained and try to resolve any over allocation problems by leveling within slack. What happens? The Marketing staff and legal staff over allocated problem is solved‚ however R&D cannot
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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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(EST) Early start Time is the earliest time the activity can begin. (LST) Late start Time is the latest time the activity can begin and still allow the project to be completed on time. (EFT) Early finish Time is the earliest time the activity can end. (LFT) Late finish Time is the latest time the activity can end and still allow the project to be completed on time Diagram A: Activity-on-the-node diagram Timing of activities in the network diagram is determined by the following calculations
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Capital Project HCS/571 Capital assets are generally purchased to improve quality of care‚ or to provide needed equipment for a new service or expansion of an existing service. The key element in capital budgeting is that the building or piece of equipment being acquired has a lifetime that extends beyond the year of purchase and it is a capital asset or long-term investment for the hospital. Capital assets are good financial investments for the organization.(Finkler‚ Ward‚ & Baker‚ 2007)
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