user resistance to IT-based change: 1. Cast a vision for shared project objectives that will attract‚ inspire‚ and motivate the project team – a PM that can inspire the project team‚ can help users understand the purpose and usefulness of IT-based changes 2. Communicate more effectively – a PM needs to be able to transmit the ideas clearly and effectively 3. Leverage emotional information to make better decisions – emotional information can be used to focus the implementation of IT change 4. Anticipate
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Understanding Project Management Learning Objectives By the end of this chapter‚ you should be able to: • • focus • • Identify the differences between functional and project management. Explain why project management is necessary in business today. Name the major organizational structures and explain the advantages and disadvantages of each. Identify the requirements of an effective project management system. Many people become project managers by accident. Someone assigns them to manage a project because
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“We were ready before August‚ but we were still testing‚ because we wanted to be sure that every stupid thing that can happen was planned for‚” Philipps said. “In a normal IT project‚ we could have delivered the application to the customer almost eight months earlier.” But the Olympic Games was far from a normal IT project. The deadline was nonnegotiable‚ and there were no second chances: Everything must work‚ from the opening ceremony on August 13 right to the end‚ said Philipps‚ whose previous
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PROJECT MANAGEMENT Foreword Project is designed to produce a result of giving birth of a products‚ a service or an improvement with a definite beginning and ending and given the clear goal and objectives. I order to successfully implement a project‚ planning‚ organizing‚ motivating‚ controlling resources‚ procedure are the process and activity designed to meet a specific goals. There are 2 challenges of project management process: its constraints including scope‚ time‚ quantity and budget and the
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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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Chapter 13 Project Management © 2008 Prentice-Hall‚ Inc. Introduction Most realistic projects are large and complex Tens of thousands of steps and millions of dollars may be involved Managing large-scale‚ complicated projects effectively is a difficult problem and the stakes are high The first step in planning and scheduling a project is to develop the work breakdown structure Time‚ cost‚ resource requirements‚ predecessors‚ and people required are identified for each
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Qualification Unit number and title Extended Diploma in Construction & the Built Environment Unit 7 Project Management in Construction and the Built Environment Learner name Assessor name B HUCKLE Date issued Hand in deadline Submitted on 8th October 2014 5th November 2014 Assignment title The Construction Team and Resource Management In this assessment you will have opportunities to provide evidence against the following criteria
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Project Termination 1 Project Termination Types of terminations How and why projects terminate Typical termination activities Need for a project history 2 All Things Come to an End ... Termination – impact on technical success – Impact on other areas – Plan and execute termination with care 3 When Do Projects Terminate? Upon successful completion‚ – or . . . When the organization is no longer willing to invest 4 Most Common Reasons Projects Terminate
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STUDY GUIDE EMPM5103 Principles of Project Management CENTRE FOR GRADUTE STUDIES STUDY GUIDE EMPM5103 Principles of Project Management First Edition (September 2011) Writer: Dr David Goh Publisher: Centre for Instructional Design & Technology Open University Malaysia First Published: September 2011 Copyright © Open University Malaysia (OUM) All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced in any form or by any means without the written permission of
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Project management has quickly become something that is used by most organizations when the organization wants to finish a project in a timely manner and within budget. Project management helps companies to meet their strategic mission in a planned and organized way. This paper will explain what project management is and the importance of it to the business world‚ the project life-cycle management and the benefits that project management has to an organization and the concept that goes into
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