Lecture (2) Introduction

BIS326E
Information Systems Project
Management
Spring - 2022

Dr. Nevine Gado

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PROJECT MANAGEMENT PROCESS GROUPS

Process Groups are independent of project phases. Project management processes are grouped into the
following FIVE Project Management Process Groups:

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Simplified project lifecycle.
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THE PROJECT LIFE CYCLE

A project life cycle is the series of phases that a project passes through
from its start to its completion

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THE PROJECT LIFE CYCLE

Project life cycles can be predictive or adaptive.

Though projects vary in size and the amount of complexity they contain, a typical project can
be mapped to the following project life cycle structure :

• Starting the project, • Carrying out the work, and

• Organizing and preparing, • Closing the project

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THE PROJECT LIFE CYCLE

Figure
Generic Depiction of a Project Life cycle

A project phase is a collection of logically related project activities that culminates in

the completion of one or more deliverables.

A phase gate, is held at the end of a phase. The project's performance and progress
are compared to project and business documents
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THE PROJECT LIFE CYCLE

A generic life cycle structure typically displays the following characteristics

• Cost and staffing levels are low at the start, increase as the work is carried out, and drop
rapidly as the project draws to a close.

• Risk is greatest at the start of the project. These factors decrease over the life cycle of the
project as decisions are reached and as deliverables are accepted

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The Project Development Life Cycle

• In a predictive life cycle, the project scope, time, and cost are determined in the early
phases of the life cycle. Any changes to the scope are carefully managed. Predictive life
cycles may also be referred to as waterfall life cycles.

• In an iterative life cycle, the project scope is generally determined early in the project
life cycle, but time and cost estimates are routinely modified as the project team's
understanding of the product increases. Iterations develop the product through a series
of repeated cycles, while increments successively add to the functionality of the
product.

• In an incremental life cycle, the deliverable is produced through a series of iterations

that successively add functionality within a predetermined time frame. The deliverable
contains the necessary and sufficient capability to be considered complete only after
the final iteration.

• Adaptive life cycles are agile, iterative, or incremental. The detailed scope is defined
and approved before the start of an iteration. Adaptive life cycles are also referred to as
agile or change-driven life cycles
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The Project Development Life Cycle

Incremental

Iterative

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• A hybrid life cycle is a combination of a predictive and an adaptive life cycle. Those
elements of the project that are well known or have fixed requirements follow a
predictive development life cycle, and those elements that are still evolving follow
an adaptive development life cycle

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• Use predictive (plan driven) (single delivery) in case of :

1. Defined requirements
2. Requirements are collected
3. In case of high risk
4. Any possibility of catastrophic
• Iterative allows feedback on partially completed work. It produce
product in cycles. We repeat until we get exactly what we need.
Iterative life cycle improve product through successive prototype.
• An iterative development model is a way to create software by
breaking down the build into manageable components. When a
component is completed, the team can move it to test while
developers work on other components. This does not mean multiple
delivery only single one. Iterations without release:
1. Complexity is high
2. Product has frequent changes
3. Concept is subject to stockholders' views
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• Incremental provides finished deliverables that the customer may be

able to use immediately. A main goal is speed. Customers are welling
to receive a subset of the overall solution. For example, a website or
if the market needs 1000 item, it can be delivered in chunks 300, 200
and 500.
• Question about certain product? Which lifecycle you are going to use
and why?
• Agile (adaptive) approach is incremental + iterative. Deliver an
increments but also repeat it until it is right. (New modules and
defects repair). Through time we see an increase of product changes.
• Requirement are uncertain. (iterate over product to create finished
deliverables) we get early feedback. The customer gets visibility.
Frequent small deliveries.

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Figure
Interrelationship of PMBOK® Guide Key Components in project
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PROJECT MANAGEMENT KNOWLEDGE AREAS

In addition to Process Groups, processes are also categorized by Knowledge Areas. Although the
Knowledge Areas are interrelated, they are defined separately from the project management
perspective. The ten Knowledge Areas identified in this guide are used in most projects most of the time.
The ten Knowledge Areas described in this guide are:
• Project Integration Management. Includes the processes and activities to identify, define, combine, unify, and
coordinate the various processes and project management activities within the Project Management Process
Groups.

• Project Scope Management. Includes the processes required to ensure the project includes all the work
required, and only the work required, to complete the project successfully.

• Project Schedule Management. Includes the processes required to manage the timely completion of the
project.

• Project Cost Management. Includes the processes involved in planning, estimating, budgeting, financing,
funding, managing, and controlling costs so the project can be completed within the approved budget.

• Project Quality Management. Includes the processes for incorporating the organization's quality policy
regarding planning, managing, and controlling project and product quality requirements, in order to meet
stakeholders’ expectations.

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PROJECT MANAGEMENT KNOWLEDGE AREAS

• Project Resource Management. Includes the processes to identify, acquire, and manage the resources
needed for the successful completion of the project.

• Project Communications Management. Includes the processes required to ensure timely and appropriate
planning, collection, creation, distribution, storage, retrieval, management, control, monitoring, and ultimate
disposition of project information.

• Project Risk Management. Includes the processes of conducting risk management planning, identification,
analysis, response planning, response implementation, and monitoring risk on a project.

• Project Procurement Management. Includes the processes necessary to purchase or acquire products,
services, or results needed from outside the project team.

• Project Stakeholder Management. Includes the processes required to identify the people, groups, or
organizations that could impact or be impacted by the project, to analyze stakeholder expectations and their
impact on the project, and to develop appropriate management strategies for effectively engaging
stakeholders in project decisions and execution.

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Project Management Processes

Project management processes are logically linked by the outputs they produce. Processes may contain overlapping
activities that occur throughout the project. The output of one process generally results in either:

• An input to another process, or

• A deliverable of the project or project phase

Figure
Example Process; Inputs , Tools & Techniques, and outputs

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Project Management Processes

Throughout the life cycle of a project, a significant amount of data is collected, analyzed, and transformed.

• Work performance data. The raw observations and measurements identified during activities
performed to carry out the project work. Examples include reported percent of work physically
completed, quality and technical performance measures, start and finish dates of schedule
activities, number of change requests, number of defects, actual costs, actual durations, etc

• Work performance information. The performance data collected from various controlling
processes, analyzed in context and integrated based on relationships across areas. Examples of
performance information are status of deliverables, implementation status for change requests,
and forecast estimates to complete.

• Work performance reports. The physical or electronic representation of work performance

information compiled in project documents, which is intended to generate decisions or raise issues,
actions, or awareness. Examples include status reports, memos, justifications, information notes,
electronic dashboards, recommendations, and updates.

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Figure
Project Data, Information and report flow

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TAILORING
Usually, project managers apply a project management methodology to their work. A
methodology is a system of practices, techniques, procedures, and rules used by those
who work in a discipline. This definition makes it clear that this guide itself is not a
methodology

• Tailoring is necessary because each project is unique; not every process, tool,
technique, input, or output identified in the PMBOK® Guide is required on every
project.

• Tailoring should address the competing constraints of scope, schedule, cost,

resources, quality, and risk.

• The project manager collaborates with the project team, sponsor, organizational
management, or some combination thereof, in the tailoring. In some cases, the
organization may require specific project management methodologies be used.

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PROJECT MANAGEMENT BUSINESS DOCUMENTS

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The project business case A documented economic feasibility study used to establish the
validity of the benefits of a selected component lacking sufficient definition and that is
used as a basis for the authorization of further project management activities.

Project benefits management plan The documented explanation defining the processes
for creating, maximizing, and sustaining the benefits provided by a project.

The project charter is defined as a document issued by the project sponsor that formally
authorizes the existence of a project and provides the project manager with the
authority to apply organizational resources to project activities.

The project management plan is defined as the document that describes how the
project will be executed, monitored, and controlled.
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Project Charter
1 4
• A hobby project to occupy my • Single project manager to carry
spare time in the weekends and Roles & out all duties. 1 man project
Business have fun! management team.
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2 5

• Create a radio controlled Imoca • Project Manager – Deniz Sasal

Project 60 replica, can be sailed in sea • Project Sponsor – Wifey
Stakeholders
Objectives but also in lakes. It needs to be • Secondary Stakeholders –
easy to transport and easy to Neighbors (noise concern) &
assemble on the beach. Tesla (my dog)

3 6
• Completion of the frame
• Laminated hull and deck • Cost less than USD 2,000
Major • Hull and deck assembled including all materials and the
• Painted Assumptions rig.
Deliverables
• Rigged • Finish in less than 2 months; 8
• Assembled weekends.

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Project Success Measures

Project success may include additional criteria linked to the organizational strategy and to the delivery of
business results. These project objectives may include but are not limited to:

• Completing the project benefits management plan;

• Meeting the agreed-upon financial measures documented in the business case.
• These financial measures may include but are not limited to:
• Net present value (NPV),
• Return on investment (ROI),
• Internal rate of return (IRR), Payback period (PBP),
• and Benefit-cost ratio (BCR).
• Meeting business case nonfinancial objectives;
• Completing movement of an organization from its current state to the desired future state;
• Fulfilling contract terms and conditions;
• Meeting organizational strategy, goals, and objectives;
• Achieving stakeholder satisfaction;
• Acceptable customer/end-user adoption;
• Integration of deliverables into the organization's operating environment;
• Achieving agreed-upon quality of delivery;
• Meeting governance criteria;
• and Achieving other agreed-upon success measures or criteria (e.g., process throughput).

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2. The Environment In Which Projects Operate

External Environment

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OVERVIEW

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Project Influences

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ENTERPRISE ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS

Enterprise environmental factors (EEFs) refer to conditions, not under the control of the
project team, that influence, constrain, or direct the project.

EEFS INTERNAL TO THE ORGANIZATION EEFS EXTERNAL TO THE ORGANIZATION

• Organizational culture, structure, and • Marketplace conditions

governance.
• Geographic distribution of facilities and • Social and cultural influences and issues
resources
• Infrastructure • Legal restrictions

• Information technology software • Commercial databases

• Resource availability • Academic research

• Employee capability. • Government or industry standards

• Financial considerations

• Physical environmental elements.

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ORGANIZATIONAL SYSTEMS
Projects operate within the constraints imposed by the organization through their
structure and governance framework.
• Management elements,
• Governance frameworks, and
• Organizational structure types.

GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK
Governance is the framework within which authority is exercised in organizations. This
framework includes but is not limited to:
Rules, Policies, Procedures, Norms, Relationships, Systems, and Processes.

This framework influences how:

• Objectives of the organization are set and achieved,

• Risk is monitored and assessed, and
• Performance is optimized.
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ORGANIZATIONAL GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORKS

Refers to organizational or structural arrangements at all levels of an organization

designed to determine and influence the behavior of the organization's members.

• Includes consideration of people, roles, structures, and policies;

• Requires providing direction and oversight through data and feedback.

Governance Framework

Includes but is not limited to:

• Rules,
• Policies,
• Procedures,
• Norms,
• Relationships,
• Systems, and
• Processes.
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Management Elements

Management elements are the components that comprise the key functions or
principles of general management in the organization.

The key functions or principles of management include but are not limited to:

• Division of work using specialized skills and availability to perform work;

• Authority given to perform work;

• Responsibility to perform work appropriately assigned based on such attributes as skill and experience;

• Discipline of action (e.g., respect for authority, people, and rules);

• Unity of command (e.g., only one person gives orders for any action or activity to an individual); Unity of

direction (e.g., one plan and one head for a group of activities with the same objective); General goals of

the organization take precedence over individual goals;

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Management Elements

The key functions or principles of management include but are not limited to:

• Paid fairly for work performed;

• Optimal use of resources;

• Clear communication channels;

• Right materials to the right person for the right job at the right time;

• Fair and equal treatment of people in the workplace;

• Clear security of work positions;

• Safety of people in the workplace;

• Open contribution to planning and execution by each person; and

• Optimal morale.

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Organizational Structure Types

Organizational structures take many forms or types. compares several types of
organizational structures and their influence on projects.

Influences of Organization Structures On Projects

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PROJECT MANAGEMENT OFFICE

A project management office (PMO) is an organizational structure that standardizes the
project-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources,
methodologies, tools, and techniques. The responsibilities of a PMO can range from
providing project management support functions to the direct management of one or
more projects.

There are several types of PMOs in organizations. Each type varies in the degree of
control and influence it has on projects within the organization, such as:

Supportive. Supportive PMOs provide a consultative role to projects by supplying

templates, best practices, training, access to information, and lessons learned from other
projects. This type of PMO serves as a project repository. The degree of control provided
by the PMO is low.

Controlling. Controlling PMOs provide support and require compliance through various
means. The degree of control provided by the PMO is moderate. Compliance may
involve:

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Adoption of project management frameworks or methodologies;

Use of specific templates, forms, and tools; and

Conformance to governance frameworks.

Directive. Directive PMOs take control of the projects by directly managing the projects.
Project managers are assigned by and report to the PMO. The degree of control provided
by the PMO is high.

The project management office may have organization-wide responsibility. It may play a
role in supporting strategic alignment and delivering organizational value.

The PMO is the natural liaison between the organization's portfolios, programs,
projects, and the organizational measurement systems (e.g., balanced scorecard).

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A PMO may have the authority to act as an integral stakeholder and a key decision maker
throughout the life of each project in order to keep it aligned with the business objectives.
The PMO may:

• Make recommendations,

• Lead knowledge transfer,

• Terminate projects, and

• Take other actions, as required.

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A primary function of a PMO is to support project managers in a variety of ways, which may
include but are not limited to:

• Managing shared resources across all projects administered by the PMO;

• Identifying and developing project management methodology, best practices,

and standards;

• Coaching, mentoring, training, and oversight; Monitoring compliance with

project management standards, policies, procedures, and templates by means

of project audits;

• Developing and managing project policies, procedures, templates, and other

shared documentation (organizational process assets); and

• Coordinating communication across projects.

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THE ROLE OF THE PROJECT MANAGER

The project manager is the person assigned by the performing organization to lead the
team that is responsible for achieving the project objectives.
PROJECT STAKEHOLDERS

The role of a project manager is distinct from that of a functional manager or operations
manager. Typically, the functional manager focuses on providing management oversight
for a functional or business unit. Operations managers are responsible for ensuring that
business operations are efficient

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THE ROLE OF THE PROJECT MANAGER

In addition to any specific technical skills and general management proficiencies required
for the project, project managers should have at least the following attributes:

Knowledge about project management, the business environment, technical aspects, and
other information needed to manage the project effectively;

Skills needed to effectively lead the project team, coordinate the work, collaborate with
stakeholders, solve problems, and make decisions;

Abilities to develop and manage scope, schedules, budgets, resources, risks, plans,
presentations, and reports; and

Other attributes required to successfully manage the project, such as personality, attitude,
ethics, and leadership.

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Membership and roles. A large project and an orchestra each comprise many members,
each playing a different role. A large orchestra may have more than 100 musicians who are
led by a conductor. These musicians may play 25 different kinds of instruments placed into
major sections, such as strings, woodwinds, brass, and percussion. Similarly, a large project
may have more than 100 project members led by a project manager. Team members may
fulfill many different roles, such as design, manufacturing, and facilities management. Like
the major sections of the orchestra, they represent multiple business units or groups within
an organization. The musicians and the project members make up each leader's team.

Responsibility for team. The project manager and conductor are both responsible for what
their teams produce—the project outcome or the orchestra concert, respectively. The two
leaders need to take a holistic view of their team's products in order to plan, coordinate,
and complete them. The two leaders begin by reviewing the vision, mission, and objectives
of their respective organizations to ensure alignment with their products. The two leaders
establish their interpretation of the vision, mission, and objectives involved in successfully
completing their products. The leaders use their interpretation to communicate and
motivate their teams toward the successful completion of their objectives.

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Knowledge and skills:
The conductor is not expected to be able to play every instrument in the orchestra, but
should orchestra with leadership, planning, and coordination through communications. The
conductor provides written communication in the form of musical scores and practice
schedules. The conductor also communicates in real time with the team by using a baton
and other body movements.

The project manager is not expected to perform every role on the project, but should
possess project management knowledge, technical knowledge, understanding, and
experience. The project manager provides the project team with leadership, planning, and
coordination through communications. The project manager provides written
communications (e.g., documented plans and schedules) and communicates in real time
with the team using meetings and verbalor nonverbal cues.

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PROJECT MANAGER COMPETENCES

• Technical project management. The
knowledge, skills, and behaviors related to
specific domains of project, program, and
portfolio management.
• The technical aspects of performing one's role.
Leadership. The knowledge, skills, and
behaviors needed to guide, motivate, and
direct a team, to help an organization achieve
its business goals. Strategic and business
management.
• The knowledge of and expertise in the industry
and organization that enhanced performance
and better delivers business outcomes.

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THE ROLE OF THE PROJECT MANAGER

Project managers accomplish work through the project team and other stakeholders.
Project managers rely on important interpersonal skills, including, but not limited to

• Leadership,
• Team building,
• Motivating,
• Communicating,
• Influencing,
• Decision making,
• Political and cultural awareness,
• Negotiating,
• Facilitating,
• Managing conflict, and
• Coaching.

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COMPARISON OF LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT

Project managers need to employ both leadership and management in order to be
successful. The skill is in finding the right balance for each situation. The way in which
management and leadership are employed often shows up in the project manager's
leadership style.

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THE ROLE OF THE PROJECT MANAGER

The project manager is successful when the project objectives have been achieved.
Another aspect of success is stakeholder satisfaction.

The project manager should address stakeholder needs, concerns and expectations to
satisfy relevant stakeholders.

To be successful, the project manager should tailor the project approach, life cycle, and
project management processes to meet the project and product requirements

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Thank You

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