Chapter 17 Project Management Saba Bahouth – UCO 1 Project Characteristics Single unit Many related activities Difficult production planning control General purpose equipment; high labor skills Time Cost Performance/Quality Project organization works best when: Work can be defined with a specific goal and deadline The job is unique or somewhat unfamiliar to the existing organization The work contains complex interrelated tasks requiring specialized skills The project is temporary but critical to the organization Saba Bahouth – UCO 2 Examples of Projects A project is a temporary customized initiative consisting of smaller activities that must be coordinated to finish the entire project on time, within budget, while meeting requirements. Project management: 1. Cost 2. Time 3. Performance/Quality Projects fail due to schedule overruns, use of unproven technology, poor estimates, weak definitions of objectives, and supplier problems. Saba Bahouth – UCO 3 Project Stages 1. Define: clearly understand the goal of the project, responsibilities, deliverables, and what must be accomplished. 2. Plan: determine the steps needed to execute the project, delegate tasks, and identify start and completion dates. 3. Organize: coordinating the resources to execute the plan costeffectively. 4. Control: collecting and assessing status reports and managing changes to baselines. 5. Close: compiling statistics, reassigning people, and preparing “lessons learned”. Saba Bahouth – UCO 4 Management of Large Projects Planning Goal setting, project definition, team organization Scheduling Relating activities to each other Relating people, money, and supplies to specific activities Controlling Monitoring resources, schedule, costs, quality, and budgets Revising plans and shifting resources to meet time and cost demands Saba Bahouth – UCO 5 Project Planning, Scheduling, and Control Work Breakdown Structure 1. Project 2. Major tasks in the project 3. Subtasks in the major tasks 4. Activities to be completed Saba Bahouth – UCO 6 Project Manager Requirements Four key skills: 1. Bias towards task completion, 2. Technical and administrative credibility, 3. Interpersonal and political sensitivity, 4. Leadership ability. • • • • • • • manage people as a team reinforce excitement of the team keep everyone informed - Communication build agreements and consensus empower the project team encourage risk-taking and creativity Have a Project Champion Saba Bahouth – UCO 7 Project Management Techniques 1. Gantt Charts 2. Network techniques: developed in 1950’s Consider precedence relationships and interdependencies CPM by DuPont for chemical plants (1957) PERT by Booz, Allen & Hamilton with the U.S. Navy, for Polaris missile (1958) CPM and PERT are essentially the same (we will see the difference later) © 1984-1994 T/Maker Co. Saba Bahouth – UCO 8 Project Management Software Microsoft “Project” Saba Bahouth – UCO 9 Activity Network, AON & AOA Format Important: AOA Needs dummy activities to show all relationships Saba Bahouth – UCO 10 When Activity c is Not Required for e Wrong! Right! Important: AOA Needs dummy activities to show all relationships Saba Bahouth – UCO 11 When activity f does not need activity a to be completed first Saba Bahouth – UCO 12 A Comparison of AON and AOA Saba Bahouth – UCO 13 Relocating an Office – Gantt Chart Saba Bahouth – UCO 14 Relocating an Office: Network Locate Facilities - 8w Interview Staff – 4w Hire and Train – 9w Order Furniture – 6w Remodel/phones - 11w 6w Furniture set up – 3w 3w 8w 11w Move in – 1w 1w 4w Saba Bahouth – UCO 9w 15 AON -> AOA -> ! Page 1 of 3 G E F C St A B D H Saba Bahouth – UCO 16 TRAIN Design AOA - Example Activity • • • • • • • • • Immediate Predecessor a - Design TRAIN b - Build Prototype a c - Perform Tests on Prototype b d - Estimate Material Costs a e - Refine TRAIN Design c,d f - Demonstrate to Customers e g - Estimate Labor Cost d h - Prepare Technical Proposal e i - Deliver Proposal to Customer g,h Saba Bahouth – UCO Activity Duration 20 10 8 11 7 6 12 13 5 17 Methods of Network Graphical Representation 1. AOA (ADM) 2. AON (PDM) Methods of Network Analysis 1. PERT Program Evaluation and Review Technique Booz-Allen Hamilton/Lockheed/Navy Probabilistic R&D Less popular with time Focus on time analysis (later also cost) 2. CPM Critical Path Method DuPont/Rand Deterministic Construction More popular with time Focus on time and cost analysis PMI (2005) ADM / PERT: Arrow Diagram Method PDM / CPM: Precedence Diagram Method Example Activity a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Duration 12 Preceded by --- 13 --10 --16 c 4 a 14 b,d 7 b,d 8 c 22 e,f 16 e,f 25 g 8 b,d,h 12 i 14 j,k 10 l 8 m,n,o Saba Bahouth – UCO 19