Introduction to Project
Introduction to Project
Management
Management
What is a Project?
What is a Project?
•Project Defined
–A complex, nonroutine, one-time effort limited by time,
budget, resources, and performance specifications
designed to meet customer needs.
•Major Characteristics of a Project
–Has an established objective.
–Has a defined life span with a beginning and an end.
– Requires across-the-organizational participation.
– Involves doing something never been done before.
– Has specific time, cost, and performance requirements.
Programs versus Projects
Programs versus Projects
• Program Defined
–A series of coordinated, related, multiple projects that
continue over an extended time and are intended to
achieve a goal.
–A higher level group of projects targeted at a common
goal.
–Example:
• Project: completion of a required course in project
management.
•Program: completion of all courses required for a business
major.
Comparison of Routine Work with Projects
Comparison of Routine Work with Projects
TABLE 1.1
Routine, Repetitive Work
Taking class notes
Daily entering sales receipts into
the accounting ledger
Responding to a supply-chain
request
Practicing scales on the piano
Routine manufacture of an Apple
iPod
Attaching tags on a manufactured
product
Projects
Writing a term paper
Setting up a sales kiosk for a
professional accounting meeting
Developing a supply-chain
information system
Writing a new piano piece
Designing an iPod that is
approximately 2 X 4 inches,
interfaces with PC, and stores
10,000 songs
Wire-tag projects for GE and
Wal-Mart
Stakeholders of a Project
Stakeholders of a Project
• Project Sponsor
– Provides executive support
•Project Manager
– Leads and manages the project
• Project Team Members
– Provide technical and support expertise
• Organization Employees
– Those that are directly or indirectly affected by the proposed project
•Community
– Competitors and business partners impacted by the project outcome
Project Manager
Project Manager
A person with a diverse set of skills – management, leadership,
technical, conflict management, and customer relationship – who is
responsible for initiating, planning, executing, controlling,
monitoring, and closing down a project.
Top Five Causes of
Top Five Causes of
Project Failure
Project Failure
