Summary: Traditional Methodologies
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What are the steps of planning
- Step 1: Project Goals –
- Step 2: Project Deliverables
- Step 3: Project Schedule
- Step 4: Supporting Plans
- Step 1: Project Goals –
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What are the supporting plans?
- Resource Plan
– Communications Plan
– Risk Management Plan -
How should a plan be checked?
– Completeness
– The sequence of the work
– The timing of the work
– The financial implications
– The use of resources
– The quality, safety and environmental implications -
What is the role of WBS
• central to the management of the programme
• identifies the tasks that need to be completed for the project to progress.
• The tasks have dependencies. These are of different types:
– Technical
– Organisational
– Spatial -
Whats are the planning techniques
Networks: activity on arrow/node/precidence network -
Advantages of the network technique
• the interrelationships between activities.
• identify criticality
• complex projects and large number of activities. -
What is resource leveling
shifting the start dates of non-critical activities (i.e. with float) to reduce peaks and troughs -
What does a project plan allows you
• Look ahead
• Involve project team members during the planning
• Define specific task responsibility
• Obtain commitment
• Assure measurability -
Resources for a project control
• Money
• Machinery (Equipment)
•Materials and Supplies
• Manpower (Labour and Supervision) -
characteristics of a project control mechanism
• Flexible
• Cost-effective
• Useful
• Timely
• Simple
• Adjustable
• Documented
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