Part 2 : Fundamentals of Project Management
Learning Objective:- Understand how projects are initiated and selected.
- Define a business problem and determine the feasibility of a proposed project.
- Plan a project by identifying activities and scheduling them.
- Understand how an alternative approach called agile development balances objectives to manage the analysis and design process.
- Manage team members and analysis and design activities so the project objectives are met while the project remains on schedule.
Major Topics;
- Project Initiation
= Problems in the organization; Problems that lend themselves to systems solutions
= Opportunities for improvement; Caused through upgrading, altering, or installing new systems
- Determining feasibility
- Defining objectives of Project
- 3 Key Elements of Feasibility:
i) Operational feasibility
ii) Technical feasibility
iii) Economical feasibility
- Determining resources
- Cost / Benefits Analysis
= The analysis to compare costs and benefits to see whether investing in the development of a new system will be beneficial.
= There are tangible benefits and intangible benefits.
= There are two main costs; development and production cost.
- Project Feasibility
- Activity Planning & Control
- Planning includes:
= Selecting a SA team & assign members to projects.
= Estimating time to complete each task.
= Scheduling the project.
- Control includes:
= Using feedback to monitor project.
= Comparing the plan for the project with its actual evolution.
= Taking appropriate action to expedite or reschedule activities.
= Motivate team members.
- Gantt chart, Network Diagram
- Gantt Charts
= Simple.
= Lends itself to end user communication.
= Drawn to scale.
- Network Diagrams
= Useful when activities can be done in parallel.
- PERT diagrams
- PERT is a network analysis technique used to estimate project duration when there is a high degree of uncertainty about the individual activity duration estimates.
- PERT uses probabilistic time estimates based on using optimistic, most likely, and pessimistic estimates of activity durations.
- Team management
= Assembling a team.
= Team communication strategies.
= Project productivity goals.
= Team member motivation.
Summary
Project management fundamentals;
- Project initiation.
- Determining project feasibility.
- Activity planning and control.
- Project scheduling.
- Managing systems analysis team members.
Problem definition;
- Issues of the present system.
- The objective for each issue.
- The requirements that must be included in all proposed systems.
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