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Project Management BasicsProject Management Workshop for NCSU Libraries Fellows
Tito Sierra, Markus Wust, and Kim DuckettNCSU Libraries
February 13, 2009
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Outline
• Introduction• Definitions• Project Scheduling• Project Roles• Project Communication• Group Exercise
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Introduction
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Definitions
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What is a project?
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What is a project?
A unique undertaking composed of interrelated activities which has a well
defined beginning and end, often involving staff from cross-functional groups, that operates under specific constraints of resources, schedules,
and requirements
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What is a project?
A unique undertaking composed of interrelated activities which has a well
defined beginning and end, often involving staff from cross-functional groups, that operates under specific constraints of resources, schedules,
and requirements
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What is a project?
A unique undertaking composed of interrelated activities which has a well
defined beginning and end, often involving staff from cross-functional
groups, that operates under specific constraints of resources, schedules,
and requirements
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What is a project?
A unique undertaking composed of interrelated activities which has a well
defined beginning and end, often involving staff from cross-functional
groups, that operates under specific constraints of resources, schedules,
and requirements
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What is project management?
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What is project management?
A set of skills and methods of planning, organizing, and managing a project
from inception to its successful completion
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What is a project manager?
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What is a project manager?
The role responsible for leading and coordinating the project effort from
inception to its successful completion;
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What is a project manager?
The role responsible for leading and coordinating the project effort from
inception to its successful completion; the person responsible for making
things happen
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Project Scheduling
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Why are schedules important to projects? What value do they add?
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Purposes of a Schedule
• Provides a commitment about when things will be done
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Purposes of a Schedule
• Provides a commitment about when things will be done
• Encourage everyone on the project to see their efforts as part of a whole
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Purposes of a Schedule
• Provides a commitment about when things will be done
• Encourage everyone on the project to see their efforts as part of a whole
• Provides a tool for breaking work into manageable chunks
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Purposes of a Schedule
• Provides a commitment about when things will be done
• Encourage everyone on the project to see their efforts as part of a whole
• Provides a tool for breaking work into manageable chunks
• Provides a tool for measuring progress
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Three Parts of Any Schedule
1. Planning• Defining what needs to be done
(requirements)• Deciding how it will be done (design)
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Three Parts of Any Schedule
1. Planning• Defining what needs to be done
(requirements)• Deciding how it will be done (design)
2. Implementation• Getting it done
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Three Parts of Any Schedule
1. Planning• Defining what needs to be done
(requirements)• Deciding how it will be done (design)
2. Implementation• Getting it done
3. Testing and Evaluation• Verify that it was done right
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Have you ever worked on a project that did not have well defined scheduling
phases like this?
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When might you allocate more of the project schedule for planning phase
activities?
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When might you allocate more of the project schedule for implementation
activities?
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When might you allocate more of the project schedule for testing and
evaluation activities?
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Project Roles
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Project Roles
• Although every project is different, there are commonly occurring roles that exist in most projects
• Sometimes roles are formally assigned; often they are not
• Sometimes individuals occupy more than one role in the project
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Project Manager
Person who is responsible for the execution of project; defines the low-level requirements of the project and
owns the project schedule
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Source: Don’t Make Me Think by Steven Krug
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Business Owner
The executive customer of the project who initiates and sponsors the project,
communicates the motivation of the project, and defines the project requirements on a high-level
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Tito’s 1st Law of Project Mgmt
Projects without a clearly designated Business Owner or Project Manager
are destined to fail or founder
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Content Lead
The person who is responsible for acquiring and managing the content for
the project; content may include metadata, images, binary data, or
instructional content
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Technical Lead
The person who owns the technical authority on the project; defines how the
project is built, including what technologies are used
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Other Project Team Members
Individual contributors to the project such as marketing specialists, developers,
content creators, user interface specialists; these roles vary from project
to project
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Roles at Project Initiation
It is very important to have a shared understanding about what these roles mean at the start of the project; lack of clarity on who does what can lead to
project failure
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Break (10 minutes)
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Project Communication
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Project Communication
• Formal project meetings• Informal face-to-face communication• Project management software• Email• Conference call• Shared documentation
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Project Communication
• Lack of communication between project team members is a common problem
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Project Communication
• Lack of communication between project team members is a common problem
• Too much communication can be a problem as well
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Project Communication
• Lack of communication between project team members is a common problem
• Too much communication can be a problem as well
• Project management can help facilitate the right amount of communication at the right time
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How can too much project communication be a problem?
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Real Project Examples
• DELTA instructional media project• NC Architects & Builders Digital
Collection
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Group Exercise
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1. What strengths, if any, do you see this model providing over the base model?
2. What project management challenges would you anticipate in this model?
Discussion Questions