PROJECT MANAGEMENT

STRUCTURAL SOLUTION TRAINING SCHOOL A SUBISIDIARY OF STRUCTURAL SOLUTION CONSULT LIMITED, UK (7765127) & NIGERIA (OG14264)

COURSE OUTLINE
PRJOCET MANAGEMENT Course Introduction Lesson 1: Definition of a Project and Project Management What is a Project? What is a Project Management? Questions Lesson 2: The Project Management System Managing Tools, Managing People, Managing Culture, Managing Organisation, Managing Planning and Information, Managing Control, Questions. Lesson 3: Life Cycle Overview Definition, Planning Strategy, Implementation Planning, Execution and Control, Closeout, Questions. Lesson 4: Project Constraints Time, Performance, Cost and Scope, Questions. Lesson 5: The Time-Cost Tradeoff Lesson 6: Cost of Quality, Questions. Lesson 7: Managing Small Projects, Questions. Lesson 8: Gaining Organisation Support, Questions. Lesson 9: Assessment & Examination Assessment includes Quizzes & Homework.

PROFESSIONAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT (Consist of all Lessons above and below) UNDERSTANDING THE PROJECT MANAGERS ROLE Lesson 10: Traits of a Project Manager Lesson 11: Responsibilities and Duties

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Lesson 12: The Need for Good People Skills Lesson 13: Importance of Leadership DEFINING THE PROBLEM Lesson 14: Importance of the Definition Phase Lesson 15: Stakeholders Lesson 16: Aspects of the Definition Phase Lesson 17: Solving Closed-Ended Problems Lesson 18: Defining Open- Ended Problems Lesson 19: The Project Charter DETERMINING STRATEGY Lesson 20: Definition of Strategy Lesson 21: Steps to Determine Strategy Lesson 22: Develop Strategies List Lesson 23: Rank the Strategies Lesson 24: Analysing the Risk Lesson 25: Contingency Planning Lesson 26: People Problems DEVELOPING THE WORK BREAKDOWN STRUCTURE (WBS) Lesson 27: WBS Basics Lesson 28: Identifying Tasks Lesson 29: WBS Procedures Lesson 30: WBS Guidelines Lesson 31: Network Diagram Basics Professional/Project Management. Structural Solution Training School, UK. www.structuralsolution.co.uk Email: info@structuralsolution.co.uk Page 3

Lesson 32: Network Diagram Procedures ESTIMATING & SCHEDULING RESOURCES Lesson 33: Basics of Scheduling Lesson 34: Definition of Estimating Lesson 35: Assumptions When Estimating Lesson 36: Estimating Methods Lesson 37: Resource Estimates Lesson 38: Basics of Budgeting Lesson 39: Work Plan Approval Lesson 40: Project Management Software

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Course Introduction
Project Management Series The Project Management series teaches the key elements of successfully managing a project. It is designed to give the beginning project manager the needed tools to control and maximize the results of projects. The series describes the phases of a project, the roles and responsibilities of key players, and methods for achieving measured results during each phase. Guidelines, tools, and tips provided in this series can help a project manager gain the experience needed for the Project Management Institute's (PMI), Project Management Professional (PMP), Certification and to prepare for the PMP Certification Examination. This course gives an overview of projects and project management principles. You will learn about all the components of project management and how those components can be tailored to large or small projects. The course will walk through the phases that a project goes through from start to finish. It discusses the four constraints on any project and how changes to any one of those constraints must affect the others. You'll also briefly go through the costs of project quality and how to encourage people within your organization to adopt project management principles.

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LESSON 1: Definition of a Project and Project Management

After completing this lesson, you should be able to... Define a project Define project management

Much of the works that organizations do are projects, even if they're not formally defined as such. Some activities in your personal life, too, are projects. This means that you don't need to have a project manager title to benefit from learning project management skills. How do you recognize a project when you see it? And what exactly is project management?

What Is a Project?
A project is a one-time, multitask job that is conducted to solve a problem. Projects should include a definite starting point, a definite ending point, a clearly defined scope of work, a budget, and a team but many projects may miss these. (Hence the need for project management skills!)

Projects should include a definite starting point, a definite ending point.

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Remodelling a kitchen, for example, is a project. It is a one-time job with a start and an end that includes multiple tasks (flooring, drywall, electrical work, installation of appliances, etc.), and will hopefully include a scope to define the new kitchen, a budget for the costs, and a team of workers and contractors. It solves the problem of having a kitchen that is too small or poorly-designed for its occupants.

Remodelling a kitchen is a project. This is NOT a Project: One-time tasks without a start and end, such as writing reports, going to meetings, and contacting customers, do not qualify as projects. Neither do tasks that are performed repeatedly, such as attaching a part in an auto assembly line.

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What Is Project Management?

Project management is the facilitation of the planning, scheduling, and control of all activities that must be done to meet project objectives. It is a disciplined way of organizing a job. There are two aspects to project management: What and How.

The WHAT is the task to be performed. HOW it is to be performed is called the "process." Process includes both the solving of the task itself, and how the team functions in total how they interact, solve problems, make decisions, run meetings, and every other aspect of team performance.

Process (how) will always affect task performance (what). In manufacturing, managers have studied every step of their process to eliminate non-value-added steps, to reduce scrap and re-work, and to optimize the process as much as possible. This same kind of scrutiny can improve non-manufacturing processes as well, to allow faster, smoother processes that can drastically improve task performance.
Project Failure Most projects fail from the beginning because they are not clearly defined and planned. Processes are ignored in favour of just buying some project management software to track the task performance. However, processes and techniques are far more important than tools. If you don't have good processes, tools will only help you document your failures with great precision.

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Just as tools are only important to help manage your processes, your processes are only important to enable your people to get their job done. Organizations and project teams consist of people. Sometimes, when so much time gets taken up by managing physical resources, inventory, tools, schedules, and status reports, the "people" part is easy to forget. But if the people do not perform well, neither will the processes. This affects the project's outcome. Projects often require different disciplines and skills to do the work. Because people with different skills see things differently, they sometimes don't cooperate well. A project manager must recognize that this can occur on a project team. The people within a project, their performance, and their communication should be the true central focus of a project manager. Tools and processes, while important, are just the pieces the team will need in order to complete the project. Homework/QUIZ 1- Log into classroom Summary In this lesson, you learned about the definitions of projects and project management. You learned that a project is a one-time, multitask job that is conducted to solve a problem. You also learned that project management is the facilitation of the planning, scheduling, and controlling of all activities that must be done to meet project objectives. In addition, you learned that project management involves much more than just using tools to track a schedule. Most importantly, project management involves optimizing the processes used to meet your objectives, and managing the performance and the communication of the people in your team.

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