Project Management Essentials: Processes, Scope, and Systems
Project Quality Management Processes
Quality Planning: Identify which quality standards are relevant to the project and how to satisfy them.
Quality Assurance: Periodically evaluate overall project performance to ensure it will satisfy quality standards.
Quality Control: Monitor project results to ensure they comply with standards and identify ways to improve overall quality.
Benchmarking generates ideas for quality improvements by comparing specific project practices or product characteristics to those of other projects or products within or outside the performing organization.
Quality Audit: A structured review of specific quality management activities that help identify lessons learned that could improve performance on current or future projects.
Project Time Management Processes
Activity Definition: Identifying the specific activities that the project team members and stakeholders must perform to produce the project deliverables.
Activity Sequencing: Identifying and documenting the relationships between project activities.
Activity Resource Estimating: Estimating how many resources a project team should use to perform project activities.
Activity Duration Estimating: Estimating the number of work periods that are needed to complete individual activities.
Schedule Development: Analyzing activity sequences, activity resource estimates, and activity duration estimates to create the project schedule.
Schedule Control: Controlling and managing changes to the project schedule.
Project Scope Management
Scope refers to all the work involved in creating the products of the project and the processes used to create them.
A deliverable is a product produced as part of a project, such as hardware or software, planning documents, or meeting minutes.
Project scope management includes the processes involved in defining and controlling what is or is not included in a project.
Project Scope Management Processes
Scope Planning: Deciding how the scope will be defined, verified, and controlled.
Scope Definition: Reviewing the project charter and preliminary scope statement and adding more information as requirements are developed and change requests are approved.
Creating the WBS: Subdividing the major project deliverables into smaller, more manageable components.
Scope Verification: Formalizing acceptance of the project scope.
Scope Control: Controlling changes to project scope.
Business Case
Provides the first deliverable in the IT project life cycle.
Provides an analysis of the organizational value, feasibility, costs, benefits, and risk of several proposed options.
The purpose of a business case is to show how an IT solution can create business value.
The Project Management Process Groups
Initiating processes, planning processes, executing processes, controlling processes, closing processes.
Systems in SPM
Systems Philosophy: View things as systems, interacting components working within an environment to fulfill some purpose.
Systems Analysis: A problem-solving approach.
Systems Management: Address business, technological, and organizational issues before making changes to systems.
Project Management Process
Assemble team, define project objectives, define project scope, construct an initial plan, add resources, cost risks, etc., obtain stakeholder buy-in, publish the plan, adjust plan and manage project change, analyze current status, collect progress info, close project.