Framework for

Project Management

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Framework for Project
Management
• Project Management as a profession
• The Project Management Institute (PMI)
• Project Management Knowledge Areas
• Project Management Certifications
• The Project Management Office

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Project Management as a
Profession
• Body of knowledge
• Standards
• Professional organizations
• Currently, anyone can call him or herself a project
manager
• Unresolved issue: to what extent can an expert PM
move from one industry to another?

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Project Management
Standards
• Standards organizations
• PMI
• Project Management Institute: http://www.pmi.org/
• CAPM, PMP and other professional standards
• IPMA
• International Project Management Association: http://ipma.ch/
• Several certifications

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Project Management Institute
(PMI)
• Established in 1969
• Certifications: most popular is PMP
• Also offer CAPM, for novice PMs, and several specialized
certifications
• Currently over 590,000 PMPs in the world
• Have published the Project Management Body of
Knowledge or PMBOK, now in its 5th edition.

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Project Management
Professional (PMP)
• Requirements:
• 5 years of project management experience
• pass a rigorous exam
• maintain ongoing professional development
• Currently over 590,000 PMPs in the world
• The CAPM or Certified Associate in Project
Management only requires an exam and is considered
to be a step along the way to a PMP

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PMBOK Knowledge Areas
• Managing Integration
• Managing Scope
• Managing Time/Schedule
• Managing Costs
• Managing Quality
• Managing Human Resources

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PMBOK Knowledge Areas
(continued)
• Managing Communication
• Managing Risks
• Managing Procurement
• Managing Stakeholders

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Project Integration
• Very active during the startup
• Coordinates all activities in all other knowledge areas

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Project Scope
• Scope generally defines what the project is all about
• Forms the basis of agreement between the project
SPONSOR and the project team
• Changes in the scope may be proposed at any time
during a project, but should follow a clearly defined
approval process

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Scope Statement
• Description of the scope
• Acceptance criteria
• Deliverables
• Exclusions
• Constraints
• Assumptions

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Scope and the WBS
• A Work breakdown structure or WBS is the breakdown
of the deliverables into manageable units of work.

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Schedule and Time
Management
• Based on the units of work defined by the WBS
• Resources required are identified
• Time durations are estimated
• Dependencies are identified (such as, what task must
be completed before another task can begin)
• And a schedule can be created

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Schedule and Time
Management
• Several methods are available—details in a later
chapter
• Software is frequently used to assist with managing the
time schedule

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Project Costs
• Develop a budget
• Several methods can be used to estimate

• Plan for the cash flow

• Track the expenditures
• Explain deviations and make adjustments where
required

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Project Quality
• Quality plan defines
• The quality standards
• The methods that will be used to achieve the standards
• The methods that will be used to measure the standards

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Human Resources
• Identification of HR requirements
• Selection of project team
• Development of project team
• Motivation and management of the project team

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Communication
• Communication includes within the team and with
others outside the team
• The project should have a communication plan
• Who needs to be communicated with
• What methods will be used
• What frequency
• Who within the project will be responsible

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Risk
• Risk represents the likelihood of the occurrence of an
event that will negatively or positively impact the
achievement of the project goals
• Processes:
• Identify risks
• Analyze risks
• Manage risks

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Procurement
• Contracting to obtain supplies or services required to
carry out the project
• May be extremely complex
• Time schedules can be crucial
• On complex projects, almost always involves additional
experts such as lawyers

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Stakeholder Management
• Stakeholders are people or organizations who either
will be impacted by the project or who can impact the
project.
• Always include: project sponsor, project team
• May include: customers, suppliers, vendors, the public,
land owners, voters, other departments within the
organization, government, etc.

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Stakeholder Management
• Major tool is the stakeholder register
• Lists stakeholder, role, all communications
• Updated regularly throughout the project
• New stakeholders can appear at any time

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PMI Process Groups
• Project Initiating
• Project Planning
• Project Executing
• Project Monitoring and Controlling
• Project Closing

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