Project Management in Computin Module 1 (Midterm)

What are the advantages of using project management techniques?

1. Better control of financial, physical, and human resources.

2. Improved customer relations

3. Shorter development times

4. Lower costs and improved productivity

List the key project stakeholders

1. the project sponsor

2. project team

3. support staff

4. customers

What are the 5 facilitating knowledge areas

1. resources

2. communications

3. risk

4. procurementand

5. stakeholder management

List three ways to measure project success

The project netscope, time and cost goals

The project satisfied the customer/sponsor

The results of the project met its main objective,

What are the core knowledge areas

Scope

Schedule

Cost

Quality

What are the characteristics that define a project.

A project has a unique purpose

A project is temporary

A project drives change and enables value creation

A project is developed using progressive elaboration

A project requires resources, often from various areas

A project should have a primary customer or sponsor

List some common project management tools and techniques

Project charter, scope statement, and WBS (scope)

Gantt charts, network diagrams, critical path analysis, critical chain scheduling (time)

Cost estimates and earned value management cost

Five most important skills and competencies for Project Managers are

People Skills

Leadership

Listening

Integrity

Strong at building trust

What does recent research show about companies that excel in project delivery capability

Use an integrated project management toolbox (standard/advanced PM tools)

Grow project leaders, emphaszing business and soft skills

Develop a streamlined project delivery process

Measure a project health using metrics like custom satisfication

Identify the top 8 skills of effective project managers.

Be comfortable with change.

Understand the organizations they work in and with

Be able to lead teams to accomplish project goals

Have the project management body of knowledge

Have application area knowledge, standards and regulations

Have Project environment knowledge

Have general management knowledge and skills

Have soft skills or human relations skills

List the skills needed for these 3 different project situations (Large, High uncertainity and Very novel projects)

1. Large: leadership, relevant prior experience, planning, people skills, verbal communication and team-building skills were most important

2. High uncertainity: risk-management, expectation management, leadership, people skills, and planning skills were most important.

3. Very novel: leadership, people skills, having vision and goals, self confidence, expectations management, and listening skills

What are the super tools

Tools with high use and high potential for success.

Give me examples of super tools

Software for task scheduling (MS project)

Scope Statements

Requirements analyses

Lessons-learned reports

List the extensively used tools that help improve project importance

Progress reports

Kick-off meetings

Gantt charts

Change requests