Project Management

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Project Management

• 30 January

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Odds and ends

• Tournament on the web
• In the news

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What can you be controlled?

• Cost
• Number of people
• Hours worked
• Hardware and software used
• Capability
• Function that you ship
• Quality
• Procedures that increase cost and quality
• Testing
• Delivery
• Dates

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What can you control?

• Cost
• Number of people
• Hours worked
• Hardware and software used
• Capability
• Function that you ship
• Quality
• Procedures that increase cost and quality
• Testing
• Delivery
• Dates

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So what will you do if youre behind?
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Organization

• Needed to control communications cost
• Channel of communications costs about 2 hours per
  week
• Optimal number 3-7
• Organization structures
• Hierarchical
• Peer
• Requires leader of team or aspects
• Subteam
• Requires gatekeeper
• Matrix

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How to Build a Schedule

• Identify the component parts
• Identify the dependencies
• Estimate
• Really just another word for guess
• Prefer educated guess
• Lay out assignments and time frames

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Tools to Help

• Product description
• Clear statement of what you are building
• Work breakdown
• Product flow
• PERT charts
• Program Evaluation and Review Technique
• Gantt charts

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Work Breakdown Structure

• Need to break down the tasks into component parts
  and tasks
• Level of detail important
• Lacks any time component

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Work Breakdown
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Graphical WBS
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Product Flow

• Identify sequences and dependencies
• Distinguish new from existing components

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Product Flow