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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Restaurant for Fried Ice Cream Table of Contents * Project Overview * Risk Management *Project and reasons for considering it a project * Equipment & labor needed * Statement of Work *Activity objectives *Work Breakdown Structure * Sequence CPM * Management & Resource Management *GANTT diagram * Revenues & Expenses Budget *Network Diagram *RAM Diagram * Conclusion & Recommendations Reasons for considering it a project: *It has a specific Start and End date (from June
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THE CONTRIBUTION OF TECHNOLOGY TO COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE (Theodore W. Schille) • According to Schille.. “An essential component of managing technology is recognizing the role that technology plays in the competitive success of a firm in a free market economy‚ and acting to ensure that technology decisions and policies contribute to the firm’s competitive advantage.” DEFINING COMPETITIVE STRATEGY AND COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Traditional approach to strategy.. – Emphasizing goals and developing
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UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI COLLEGE OF EDUCATION AND EXTERNAL STUDIES FACULTY OF EXTERNAL STUDIES DEPARTMENT OF EXTRA-MURAL STUDIES MASTERS IN PROJECT PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT COURSE CODE: LDP 604 PROJECT PLANNING‚ DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION QUESTIONS: Section A Section B - This question is compulsory - Chose any two questions (10 marks) (5 marks each) – Total 20 marks Section A Twiga & Sons Ltd. started out as a trading company specializing in the sourcing‚ sale and service of
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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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#3 1. If I were in Lauren’s shoes‚ I would make sure it’s clear to the strategic management group that my estimate – a more detail/micro estimate – came in well over their initial macro estimate. That being said‚ I would also provide upper management with the ideas (outsourcing‚ change scope‚ cancel project..) developed with stakeholders in the brainstorming meeting. Simply moving forward with the project after finding such a large gap in estimates would be a terrible idea that would most likely
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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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construction projects and I.T Projects INTRODUCTION Over the past few years‚ project managers and Project management has shown tremendous growth. Project management has evolved over the past several years from an activity in an organization to a discipline in its own right. Many professional bodies exist today to represent project management as a discipline‚ Some of which include‚ PMI‚ Prince2 Foundation‚ PM Bok. According to A Guide to the Project Management
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The Process for the Software Project Management Plan CEC500: Software Project Management Mr. Frank Gutcher Team 5: Junzhen Shao Yuze Jiang Ren Zhang Table of ContentsTitle PageTable of ContentsChange historyOver viewReference1 Managerial Process Plan 1.1 Start-up Plan 1.1.1 Pre-task plan 1.1.2 Estimation Plan 1.1.3 Staffing Plan 1.1.4 Staff Training Plan 1.2 Work Plan 1.2.1Schedule Allocation Plan 1.2.2Resource Allocation plan
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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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