CS451 Lecture 5: Project Management

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CS451Lecture 5 Project Management
Planning(I)

• Yugi Lee
• STB 555
• [phone]
• yugi_at_cstp.umkc.edu
• www.cstp.umkc.edu/yugi

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What is Project Management?

• Application of knowledge, skills, tools and
  techniques to meet the needs of stakeholders
• Balance competing demands
• Project scope, time, cost, quality
• Different stakeholders differing needs and
  expectations
• Identified requirements (needs) and unidentified
  requirements (expectations)

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Project Management Focus

• People
• identify the stakeholders, determine their needs
  and expectations,
• manage and influence these needs and expectations
  to ensure project success
• Problem
• Objectives, scope, alternatives, constraints etc.
• Process
• framework for software development plan
• identify activities and tasks (milestones,
  deliverables, QA points etc.)

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Stakeholders Organizational Influence

• Key Stakeholders
• Senior managers
• Project managers / team leaders
• Practitioners /developers
• Customers/End users
• Organization Influences
• organizational structure (functional or
  project-oriented)
• organizational culture (conservative, aggressive,
  participative,..)
• organizational systems (HR, Finance, strategic
  planning)

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Communication Paths

• Increasing team size and communication
  White2000
• 1 developer fast
• 2 developers 1 line of communication
• 4 developers 6 lines
• 10 developers 45 lines
• 100 developers 4950 lines

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General Project Management Skills

• MOI Model of Leadership
• Motivation
• encourage people to product to their best ability
• Organization
• create / adapt processes to facilitate project
• Ideas / Innovation
• encourage creativity / "reframing" work to
  promote feeling of creativity among workers

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Project Management Skills

• Problem solving ability
• diagnosis of problems
• reuse of past experience
• maintain flexibility
• Managerial Identity
• assume control while fostering others instincts
• take tough decisions fairly and impartially
• reward initiative and achievement (cf.
  punishment)
• People skills different personality
  types/motivations

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Team Structure Project Characteristics

• Democratic decentralised (DD)
• no permanent leader/decisions made by group
  consensus
• horizontal communication channel
• Controlled decentralised (CD)
• partitioned implementation of solutions among
  subgroups
• horizontal communication among members and
  vertical communication along the control
  hierarchy
• Controlled Centralised (CC)
• top-level problem solving and internal team
  coordination are managed by a team leader.
• Vertical communication between the leader and
  members

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Team Structure Project Characteristics
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Team Structure Project Characteristics
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Team Structure Project Characteristics
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Team Structure Project Characteristics
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Team Structure Project Characteristics
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Scope of Project Management

• Project Integration Management
• Project Scope management
• Project Time Management
• Project Cost Management
• Project Quality Management
• Project Human Resource Management
• Project Communications Management
• Project Risk Management
• Project Procurement Management

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Outcomes of Project Management

• Define the scope of the work for the project
• Evaluate the feasibility of achieving the goals
  of the project with available resources and
  constraints
• Size and estimate the tasks and resources
  necessary to complete the work
• Identify and monitor interfaces between elements
  in the project, and with other projects and
  organizational units
• Develop and implement plans for execution of the
  project
• Monitor and report progress of the project
• Take actions to correct deviations from the plan
  and to prevent recurrence of problems when
  project targets are not achieved