MASARYK UNIVERSITY BRNO FAKULTY OF INFORMATICS Effects of Different Project Management Methods on Team Performance Master’s Thesis Bc. Tibor Szabó Brno‚ 2012 Declaration I declare that this Master’s thesis is my original work and that I have written it independently. All sources and literature that I have used during elaboration of the thesis are correctly cited with complete reference to the corresponding sources. Tibor Szabó Supervisor: doc. RNDr. Tomáš Pitner‚ Ph.D. i
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is to compare and contrast two projects in terms of Project Management‚ Quantitative Analysis and Economics while illustrating the effects of prudent vice imprudent management. The two case studies reveal different management styles within the organizations and ultimately within the projects. This paper examines the successes and failures of the St. Lucie Unit 2 Nuclear Power Plant and the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System projects. These two drastically different projects are located in very different
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PROJECT MANAGEMENT: PROJECT FAILURES Sydney Opera House CONTENTS Introduction p.3 History p.3 – 4 Stakeholders p.4 – 7 Stakeholder classification p.5 Stakeholder Power/Interest Grid p.7 Causes for project failure p.8-10 Lack of risk management p.9 Unrealistic timescale and Cost escalation p.10 Recommendations p.10 – 14 Risk Management p.11 Forecasting p.11 – 12 Stakeholder Engagement p.12 – 14 Conclusion p.14 References
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QUALITY ISSUES IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT 1. Introduction There are a number of issues surrounding the general area of “quality” in project management. You will need to be aware of some of the requirements of PRINCE (or PRINCE2) as well as the more general aspects of the ISO 9000 and 14000 series. 2. Quality requirements as part of PRINCE PRINCE2 (Projects in Controlled Environments) was revised from PRINCE in 1996 and is the accepted standard for the control of projects in the computing
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The six phases of project management This chapter provides a sketch of the traditional method of project management. The model that is discussed here forms the basis for all methods of project management. Later chapters go into more depth regarding a model that is particularly appropriate for IT-related projects. Dividing a project into phases makes it possible to lead it in the best possible direction. Through this organisation into phases‚ the total work load of a project is divided into smaller
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2010 Project Techniques and Risk Management A practical and effective approach Eng. Hayder Issa Engineering Contracts Management Engineering Arbitration Rule in Solving Disputes Post Graduate Certificate in Project Management - UK Project Techniques and Risk Management A practical and effective approach Managing business risk means managing the protection of your employees‚ customers‚ property‚ information and the environment. Risk management is attempting to identify
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PROJECT MANAGEMENT WHAT IS PROJECT MANAGEMENT: The word project comes from the Latin word projectum from the Latin verb proicere‚ "to throw something forwards" which in turn comes from pro-‚ which denotes something that precedes the action of the next part of the word in time (paralleling the Greek πρό) and iacere‚ "to throw". The word "project" thus actually originally meant "something that comes before anything else happens". When the English language initially adopted the word‚ it referred
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The Project Management Institute (PMI) defines a project as any work that happens only once‚ has a clear beginning and end‚ and is intended to create a unique product or knowledge (Mango‚ 2008). A project may be as simple as organizing a one-day event or as complex as constructing a nuclear reactor. It may; involve only one person‚ or thousands; last several days‚ or many years; be undertaken by a single organization‚ or by an alliance of several stakeholders. Schwartz (2008) identifies four characteristics
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A Project Management Office (PMO) is a group or department within a business‚ agency or enterprise that defines and maintains standards for project management within the organization. The PMO strives to standardize and introduce economies of repetition in the execution of projects. The PMO is the source of documentation‚ guidance and metrics on the practice of project management and execution. In some organisations this is known as the Program Management Office (sometimes abbreviated to PgMO to differentiate);
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Leon Prikhodovskiy MGMT Assignment #1 1.) For my report I decided to focus on the topic‚ “Workers Compensation”. Workers compensation is a state-mandated insurance program that covers job-related injuries and death. This law was designed to ensure that if something terrible went wrong to an employee while doing their job‚ they would be compensated with set monetary awards. This law functions in a no-fault liability‚ meaning that the employee does not need to determine gross negligence by the employer
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