Agile

Scrum

Scheduling

People

Charts

Organizing

Tasks

"More than 50% of projects fail."

17% of IT project fail significantly that they could bankrupt the whole company

9.9% of every dollar is squandered due to poor project performance.

Knowledge

Preperadness

Decisions

Objectives

"Planning, organizing and managing resources to achieve a goal"

- THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY

 first truly large government project was the transcontinental railroad - 1860

Making decisions  was the basis of poject management

- THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY

Frederick Taylor (1856 -1915 )

Introduced the concept of working efficiently (Work smart not work hard)

Henry Gantt (1856 -1915 )

Navy ship construction on world war one

Used taskbars and milestone markers

Still used today

-Mid 20th Century

PERT charts and the critical path method were introduced

Military Weapon Systems and other complex projects for WWII

Richard Johnson, Fremont Kast, and James Rosenzweig

The Theory and Management of Systems

"The business is like a human organism"

NOW

All the processes, methods and strategies are combined

Same structure used, Project manager manages the project, puts together a team, ensures communication between departments

Bottom-up Planning

For simpler project designs and shorter project cycles and involve ment of all team members in decision making

Top-down Planning

Enterpise-wide decision making to build the portfolio of the organization

Known as the agile methodology - Scrum, Crystal, Extreme programming

Initiate a project plan

Communicate with your shareholders

Create and share project reports

Add Task

Organize the Tasks

Add People

Communicate with the team

Project costs

Choose the right view for your schedule

Track progress

Resolve resource allocation problems

Create reports for status

Manage Risks

Before starting a project you must have

Of course, an actual project

- has beginning and an end

- clearly defined deliverables

- temporary ang unique

Identify the project constraints

- Limited Time Span

- Small Scopes

- Limited people and other resources

Constraints affects each other

Identify the stakeholders

maintain communication to make sure all objectives are aligned

Stakeholders can have suggestions or change objectives

Communication is very important

Affinity Diagram

thoughts organized with

their relationships

Interrelationship Diagram

used for understanding complex

situations

Matrix Diagram

Activity network diagram

Organize the priority of tasks

Stakeholders are important

Maximize the available tools

Gantt vs Pert

Gantt vs Pert

Both are used  for visualizing schedules for the project

When to use Gantt?

When you want to forecast the amount of time to complete a project’s task

see the progress of the task and also want to track the resources

When to use Gantt?

When to use Pert?

forecast the time needed to complete the project,

want to set essential paths

tasks are an interdependent plus, more complex

When to use Pert?

Communication with the team

Updates and reports are critical

change management

Reports that we should present

Project status report

Reports that we should present

Health Report

Team availability report

Risk Report

Variance Report

Time Tracking

Tools

managing projects more efficient