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Successful project management
• What are the fundamental problems to be addressed?
• Why projects fail
Project aims and objectives
• Defining aims and objectives: the business case
• Preparing a Project Initiation Document
• Assessing the relative importance of time, cost and quality
• Project Risk Analysis
Estimating the workload
• Realistic forecasting
• Use of work standards, historical data and standard deviation techniques
Getting started
• Deriving a preliminary product list
• Assumptions and their problems
• Using a Work Breakdown Structure
• Producing a project plan using Critical Path Analysis (PERT) techniques
• Viable dependency relationships
• Allowing for contingencies |
Analysis of a project plan
• Calculating the Critical Path
• Understanding the importance of the Critical Path
• Understanding float (slack) and contingency
• Calculating project costs and obtaining a budget
• Dealing with resource conflicts
Control of the project’s progress
• Setting a baseline
• Understanding the importance of a ‘control cycle’ for project monitoring
• Responding to problems and changes
• The management of change
• Producing management reports
• Post implementation reviews
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