Managing Integrated Change Control

June 12th, 2008

Input

  1. Project Management Plan
  2. Work Performance Information
  3. Recommended Preventative Actions
  4. Recommended Corrective Actions
  5. Recommended Defect Repair
  6. Deliverables
  7. Requested Changes

Tool and Techniques

  1. Project Management Methodology
  2. Project Management Information System
  3. Expert Judgment

Output

  1. Approved Change Request
  2. Rejected Change Request
  3. Project Management Plan Updates
  4. Approved Corrective Actions
  5. Approved Preventative Actions
  6. Approved Defect Repair
  7. Validated Defect Repair
  8. Deliverables

Project Management Monitoring

June 12th, 2008

Inputs

  1. Project Management Plan
  2. Work Performance Information
  3. Requested Change Requests

Tools and Techniques

  1. Expert Judgment
  2. Earn Value Technique (measure)
  3. Project Management Methodology

Output

  1. Recommended Corrective Actions
  2. Recommended Preventative Actions
  3. Recommended Defect Repair
  4. Requested Changes

Directing Project Management Execution

June 12th, 2008

Inputs

  1. Project Management Plan
  2. Approved corrective actions
  3. Approved preventive actions
  4. Approved defect repairs
  5. Approved change requests
  6. Validated defect repair
  7. Administrative closure procedures

Tools and Techniques

  1. Project Management Methodologies
  2. Project Management Information Systems

Output

  1. Deliverables
  2. Work Performance Information
  3. Requested Changes
  4. Implemented Change Requests
  5. Implemented Corrective Actions
  6. Implemented Preventative Actions
  7. Implemented Defect Repair

Developing a Project Management Plan

June 12th, 2008

The areas that a project management plan helps guide are communication, Decision, and Leadership.

Communication

  1. Risks
  2. Assumptions
  3. Decisions

Decision

  1. Schedule
  2. Cost
  3. Quality
  4. Scope

Leadership

  1. Executing
  2. Directing
  3. Controlling

To create a project management plan

Inputs:

  1. Preliminary Scope Statement
  2. Project Management Process
  3. Organizational Process Assets
  4. Enterprise Environmental Factors

Tools and Techniques

  1. Project Management Methodologies
  2. Project Management Information System
  3. Expert Judgment

Output

  1. Work Execution
  2. Project Process
  3. Implementation Level of Process
  4. Tools and Techniques
  5. Life Cycle
  6. Project Management Tools and Techniques
  7. Change Monitoring and Control Plan
  8. Configuration Management plan
  9. Communication Plan
  10. Management Reviews
  11. Baseline
  12. Management Plan
    • Scope
    • Schedule
    • Cost
    • Communication
    • Process Improvement metric
    • Staffing
    • Quality
    • Risk
    • Procurement

WebFocus Custom Query Example

May 16th, 2008

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Web focus No Data HTML Output Redirect

May 16th, 2008

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Developing a Preliminary Project Scope Statement

May 11th, 2008

Input

  1. Project Charter
  2. Statement of Work
  3. Enterprise Environment Factors
  4. Organizational Process Assets

Tools

  1. Project Management Methodology
  2. Project Management Information System
  3. Expert Judgment

Output

  1. Project and Product Objectives
  2. Product or Service Requirements and Characteristics
  3. Project Boundaries
  4. Project Reject Requirements and Deliverables
  5. Product Acceptance Criteria
  6. Project constraints
  7. Initial Project Organization
  8. Initial Define Risks
  9. Schedule Milestones
  10. Initial Work Breakdown
  11. Order of Magnitude Cost Estimates
  12. Project Configuration Management Requirement
  13. Approval Requirement

Developing a Project Charter

May 11th, 2008

A project charter is important starting point to project because is helps define the following:

  1. Gives the PM confidence to start work on the project
  2. Gives Team assurance
  3. Assurance the project is link to the goals of the organization

The following is inputs, tools and techniques, and out put the development of a project charter

INPUT

  1. Contract
  2. Statement of work
  3. Enterprise Environment
  4. Organization Process

TOOLS and TECHNIQUES

  1. Project Selection Methods
  2. Project Manage Methodology
  3. Project Management Information System
  4. Expert Judgment

OUTPUT

  1. Project overview
  2. Preliminary Roles and Responsibility
  3. Identification of the project manager
  4. Description of project management authority
  5. Sign-off

5 Areas of expertise for Project Management

November 24th, 2007

5 project management areas of expertise

  1. PMBOK
  2. Interpersonal Skills
  3. Subject matter expert
  4. Environment Expert
  5. Project Manager

9 Project management knowledge areas

November 24th, 2007

The 9 areas of project management:

  1. Integration
  2. Cost
  3. Time
  4. Scope
  5. Procurement
  6. Human Resource
  7. Quality
  8. Communication
  9. Risk

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