CHAPTER 1 What Is a Project? Things are not always what they seem. — Phaedrus‚ Roman writer and fabulist CHAPTER LEARNING OBJECTIVES After reading this chapter‚ you will be able to: N Define a project N List a project’s characteristics N Distinguish a project from a program‚ activity‚ and task N Understand the three parameters that constrain a project N Know the importance of defining and using a project classification rule N Understand the issues around scope creep‚ hope creep‚ effort creep
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Effective Communications for Project Management OTHER AUERBACH PUBLICATIONS Agent-Based Manufacturing and Control Systems: New Agile Manufacturing Solutions for Achieving Peak Performance Massimo Paolucci and Roberto Sacile ISBN: 1574443364 Curing the Patch Management Headache Felicia M. Nicastro ISBN: 0849328543 Cyber Crime Investigator’s Field Guide‚ Second Edition Bruce Middleton ISBN: 0849327687 Disassembly Modeling for Assembly‚ Maintenance‚ Reuse and Recycling A. J. D. Lambert and Surendra
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Technology Projects Global Technology Solutions 1 Introduction 2 How This Book Is Organized 3 The Software Crisis 4 Why IT Projects Fail 4 Improving the Likelihood of Success 6 A Socio-Technical Approach 6 A Project-Management Approach 7 A Knowledge-Management Approach 8 The Context of Project Management 9 What Is a Project? 9 Attributes of a Project 9 The Project Life Cycle and IT Development Define Project Goal 12 Plan Project 13 Execute Project Plan 13 Close Project 14 Evaluate Project 14 The
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Memorandum To : Management of MYH Inc. From : Information Technology Department Date : 29 September 2012 1. Company Background Manage Your Health‚ Inc. (MYH) is a Fortune 500 company that provides a variety of health care services across the globe with more than 20‚000 full-time employees and more than 5‚000 part-time employees. 2. Strategic Goals MYH recently updated its strategic plan‚ which aims to: • Reduce internal costs • Increasing cross-selling of products • Exploiting new
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Information on the accident Piper Alpha accident happened in the 6th of July in 1988. In this accident 167 men died including 165 out of 226 workers of the platform and 2 members of the rescue crew. The series of explosions that started at 10.00 pm destroyed the platform in less than one and a half hour. It happened on the production deck which consisted of four modules. Module A - oil is piped up from the sea Module B – Process oil and gas Module C - Process oil and gas Module D – Power
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Project Integration Management S. Kenneth Merrill‚ PMP November 21‚ 2007 Project Management Tutorial Series Project Management Tutorial Series Scope Time Cost Quality Human Resource Communication Risk Procurement Project Success Knowledge Areas Initiating Planning Executing Monitor & Control Closeout Project Life Cycle Process Groups Eastern Idaho Chapter - PMI Project Management Tutorial Series Project Integration Management Discussion Outline: Introduction
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AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MODULE CODE: IMM002 MODULE TITLE: PROJECT MANAGEMENT Assignment 1: Project Definition Report Project Title: Designing a Biogas Cogeneration Plant for the Nembe Community | | | | | | | | | | | Stamford College‚ Malaysia - University of East London‚ United Kingdom Group Project – Msc Technology Management TABLE OF CONTENTS 1.0 CONTEXT OF THE PROJECT 1 1.1 BENEFITS OF THE PROJECT TO THE NEMBE COMMUNITY GROUP 1 1.1.1 Environmental Benefits:
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Title: Project Management Concepts and Practices: Project Proposal for Installation of 220 Radiology (X-Ray) Imagers for the I-Med Network Australia-wide. Assignment Topic: Purpose The purpose of the assignment is to explore the application of concepts‚ tools and techniques covered in this subject and to present a report based on your findings. Assignment task Option 1) has been chosen by this author:- Develop a project proposal for a new project. The assignment might be based on: A proposal
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Introduction Project management has come a long way from its humble beginnings; it has change drastically to something that is useful and important in today’s business environment. From its quality‚ delivery and cost control are taking precedence in businesses‚ government organizations to nonprofit organizations. Project management allows managers an extra hand in planning‚ creating and executing strategic initiatives that will result in generating new revenues and at the same time find new clients
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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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