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Project management

1. Innovation
2. Creating innovation & concepts
3. Engineering
4. Set-up
5. Planning
6. Procurement
7. Manufacturing
8. Testing
9. Production
10. Distribution
11. Delivery
12. Training
13. Commissioning
14. Management
15. Maintenance
16. Support
17. Closing
18. Reporting
19. Reviews

Project management

Inception

• Stakeholders
• Sponsors
• Funding
• Business case
• Project charter

Planning + define

• Project life cycle
• Project boundaries
• Requirements
• Risks
• BSM

Execution

• Project management plan
• Project activities
• Team building
• Performance
• Feedback

Scope

• Project control
• Monitoring
• Project change requests
• Deliverables
• Functional specification
• Project lead
• Project manager
• Scope statement
• WBS
• Project planning
• Project prioritization
• Project definition
• Project implementation
• Project control and monitoring
• Program
• Portfolio
• QAPM
• Lifecycle
• Cost
• Quality
• Time
• Scope
• Resources
• Stakeholders
• Project tasks
• Project decisions
• Project team
• Project strategy
• Project structure
• Project objectives
• Project deliverables
• Project planning and scheduling
• Cost baseline
• Fixed price
• Risk management
• Procurement
• Communication
• Human resources
• Project risks
• Project cost
• Project schedule
• Activity list
• Milestones
• Network diagram
• Critical path
• Activity sequencing
• Resource allocation
• Earned value
• Quality assurance
• Quality control
• Change control
• Closing
• Acceptance
• Lessons learned
• Archive
• End

Project management introduction

Process classification

Operations - repetitive process (flow)

• Repeat the same activities for each output (work cycle is repeated)
• Standardized product/process
• Periodicity defined
• We know everything of the product/process
• Continuous by rule/procedures
• Mechanical process to organization
• Improvement of the performances with time and repetition
• Permanent organization
• Each element does process without considering activities
• The material is needed if you do everything you are supposed to

Project - non repetitive process (impulse)

• Here is something new
• It is temporarily defined
• Starting/finishing date
• Specific time interval
• Great concentration effort
• Unique product/process (progressively develops)
• Coordination by direct interaction
• Incremental improvement of the PM system
• Temporary organization
• You don't know everything of the final result and how to reach it
• Lot of unexpected events
• No detailed description

How can I keep together 2 principles:

1. I know the objective of the project
2. I don't know in detail what will be the configuration of the final output

With posteriors develop (start with 1 and then develop the detailed configuration)

Project processes

Operational - progress specific

• Engineering - production of technical documents
• Procurement - purchase issue and delivery to the site
• Construction - physical new installation & connection
• Commissioning/test - expect that the system is correctly functioning

Managerial - continual general but adapted

• Initiation (define) - what to do?
• Planning - plan & schedule
• Monitoring (operative process) - check its adherence of the progress with the plan
• Reporting - data collection
• Control - taking corrective actions based on the data in order to achieve time/cost objs
• Close out

Organisational - human resources general

• Recruiting
• Selection
• Examination
• Training
• Role assignment
• Responsibility/authority

Project manager

Main features

Knowledge = something you learn studying (theory)

Skills = something that you gain during working experience (practice)

Attitude = related to the person, leadership attitude

Why I'm while you receive theory but you can adapt it to the specific problem you are dealing with

Required trait vs flexible practice

Factor flaws (most not must mistakes)

• Inability to learn from mistakes
• Lack of core interpersonal skills (interaction between hard and soft skills)
• Not open to new/different idea
• Lack of accountability - PM should take responsibility of the results
• Lack of initiative

Moppossible pires

• Objectives vs stakeholders -> budget, completion time, final test vs single person of company ~ you acquire objectives through a stakeholder relationship (also with public administration) L authorization
• Hard vs soft skills -> achieving objectives vs manage relationship
• Synthetics vs analysis -> high level vs low level ~ WBS related item
• Deterministic vs stochastic -> fixed and known vs variability

Point

We are mapping assumptions that might be wrong (one figure)