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Project Planning
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Defining the scope
Project Management: Business Synergies Approach
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Validate what the customer expects from
the project and project success and failure criteria that criteria the
customer will use to evaluate results
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Clearly define the tasks, basic
conditions, project objectives and final outcome(s)
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Define the project boundaries - what's
included and not included in the project
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Identify all stakeholders - persons or
groups of persons who are participating in the project, are interested
in the project performance, or are constrained by the project
Organizing the work
10 Key Project Leader Skills
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Make sure you have the right people on the
team
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Make sure all stakeholders have some type
of representation on the team
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Break the final deliverable down into
manageable parts
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Assign each part to team member
Assessing risk
Developing a project schedule
Resource planning
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Identify resources required - project
personnel, equipment, materials and facilities
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Optimize scheduling with respect to all
available and procurable resources
Developing the project budget
Writing the project plan
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Setting Up a Responsibility Matrix
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List the stakeholder groups. Stakeholder groups are listed on the
horizontal axis of the
responsibility matrix. Groups such as project team and user council
should be named rather than individual team members: these individual team
assignments are documented in the
project plan. It is appropriate however to put individual names on the
responsibility matrix whenever a single person will be making decisions or
has complete responsibility for a significant part of the project ...
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Project
Management: Two Approaches
50 Rules of Project
Management
If you don’t plan, it doesn’t work. If you do plan, it doesn’t
work either. Why plan!
The nice thing about not planning is that
failure comes as a complete surprise rather than being
preceded by a period of worry and depression.
The person who says it will take the longest and cost the most
is the only one with a clue how to do the job ...
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Planning Activities
The planning activities that you, with the help
of your team members, will need to do for the project are listed below:
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To recruit and build the
team
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To
organize the project
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To
identify and confirm the start and end dates through a project schedule
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To
create the project budget
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To
identify clearly the customer requirements for the final outcome
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To
define the project scope boundaries - what it included and not included in
the project
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To
write a description of the final outcome
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To
decide who will do what
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To
assign accountability
5 Factors that
Make a Project a Success
By: Eric Verzuh,
the author of
The Fast Forward MBA in Project
Management
To be successful, a project must
have:
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A plan that demonstrates what is possible, shows an overall path and
clear responsibilities, contains the details for estimating the people,
money, time, equipment, and materials necessary to get the job done, and
will be used to measure
progress during the project and act as an early
warning system...
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GREAT Model
By: Michael S. Dobson
To make your project team function
effectively, the first thing you need to know is the GREAT model:
Goals; Results;
Expectations / Performance;
Accountabilities / Abilities;
Timing.
The GREAT model specifies what people must know before they can work
together effectively...
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Murphy's Law in Project Management
If
a project requires 'n' components, there will be "n-1" units
in stock...
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