Appunti completi di Project Management

PROSPECT MANAGEMENT

• 1. INDUCTION
• 2. CREATIVE DESIGN & CONTRACT
  • Preparation of contracts
  • Gate 1
  • Contract approval
  • Contract clauses
  • Contract strategy
  • Gate decision
  • Deliverables
  • Contract scope and objectives
• 3. ENGINEERING
• 4. SET-UP
  • Project strategy
  • Most complex project
  • Sequential or parallel
• 5. RAM AND HAND
• 6. PROJECT SCREENING
  • Sketches
  • Conceptualize
  • Gate 2
  • Concept costings
  • Gate 3
  • Product workshops
• 8. RISK
• 9. CONTROLLOOPS
• 10. HANDOVER

Project Management

Introduction

Process Classification

• Operations
  • Repetitive process (plan)
    • Repeat the same activities for each output (work unit is repeated)
    • Standardized product/process
    • Coordination by role/procedure
    • Measurement of the performances
    • Remuneration quantifiable
• Project
  • Non repetitive process (improve)
    • Here is something new
    • Temporary objective
    • Start/ending date
    • Specific time interval
    • Great concentration effort
    • Unique result/process (progressively develop)
    • Coordination by direct interaction
    • Intermeasure improvements of the PM system
    • Project-specific to plan the project
    • LPI generates better quality
    • Lots of procedures

Project Processes

1. Operational
   • Progress specific
   • Engineering - produce project technical documents
   • Procurement - purchase items and dealing to the site
   • Construction - physical result manufacture & commissioning
   • Commissioning/test - expect that the system is correctly functioning
2. Managerial
   • Initialization (startup) - what to do?
   • Planning - plan & schedule
   • Monitoring (continuous process) - check the coherence of the progress with the project expected
   • Control - taking corrective actions based on the direction in order to achieve time/cost obj
   • Close out
3. Organizational
   • Human resources
     • Recruiting
     • Selection
     • Execution
   • Relationships
     • 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
• Future Flaws
  • Inability to learn from mistakes
  • Lack of core management skills (interaction between hard and soft skills)
  • No objectives/targets vision
  • Lack of accountability = PM should take responsibility of the results
  • Lack of initiative

PM CONCEPTS RULES

• Objectives & Stakeholders → budget, completion time, vs. project sponsor or company
• Hard vs soft values → quantifying vs Manage relationship
• Symbiosis vs analysis → high level vs low level ∞ WBS reflects both
• Deterministic vs Stochastic → Fixed and known vs Variability

SY is alignment of objectives of the organization & the objectives of the project.

We are normally assuming that a model may be wrong (like figure).

You need two biggies µ, σ.

Mean +/- Std. deviation