EXAMPLES OF PROJECTS

Communication campaigns e.g. Voter education

Designing and constructing a building/Yacht.
Military operations e.g. Operation Desert storm
Launch of a new product (marketing)
Implementing a new computer system (IT upgrade
Designing and implementing a new organisational
structure
Planning and conducting an audit
Improving productivity within a target period
Disaster recovery i.e. damage of fires, floods,
xenophobia attacks etc
FIFA 2010 World Cup
Moving house (domestic project)
Wedding ceremony
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WHY UNDERTAKE PROJECTS
Growth and development reasons e.g.
Trouble shooting /crisis handling e.g
Research purposes e.g.
Procedural e.g. CENSUS, ELECTIONS
Change Management

GIVE OTHER SUGGESTIONS??

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CLASSIFICATION OF PROJECTS
Small v Large
Micro v Macro
Capital v Mega projects
Programmes v Project series
Multi-projects
B.O.T. projects v Turnkey projects
Knowledge management v Technology Transfer
projects

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 Maylors classification of
projects MANUFACTURING RETAIL SERVICES CONSTRUCTION
.
e.g. designing e.g. e.g. removing e.g.
new equipment moving or adding a redesigning a
1.STRATEGIC store to a dept. house
new
location
e.g. e.g. e.g. sub- e.g. using
implementing a implement contracting contractors
2.SYSTEMS quality system ing EPOS out some rather than
service employ

e.g. e.g.chang e.g. sub- e.g.

3. Changing e contracting decorating
OPERATIONAL operational personnel out some and plumbing
procedures on a e.g. till service
shop floor operators
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Home work -Research on
EDDIE OBENG 4 classifications
of Projects ?
1. FOG

2.MOVIE

3.QUEST

4. PAINTING BY
Numbers

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FEATURES OF A PROJECT

Start and finish

Life cycle
Budget
Activities that are unique
Use of resources
Team roles
Single point of responsibility
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DEFINITION OF A PROJECT
: A temporary activity undertaken to create a
unique product/service. It has a limited time
span, a target date completion and an outcome
(Keeling).
OR
. A collection of tasks that are carried out by a
team to meet an objective defined by the
sponsor. It has a beginning and end date
budget and risks. (Elbeck and Thomas)

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THE PROJECT CONSTRAINTS
The triple constraint (SCT)
PEST FACTORS

What else? Expand your research for the

assignment

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Figure 1-2. The Triple Constraint of
Project Management

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DEFINITIONS OF PROJECT MGT.
It is the application of knowledge, skills,
tools and techniques to project activities in
order to meet stakeholders needs and
expectations from a project.
It is about planning the work and then
working the plan (Deveaux,1999).

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DEFINITIONS OF PROJECT
MGTcont
PMBOK (Project Management Body of Knowledge)
1996,p4 defines PM as an endeavour which is
temporarily undertaken to create a unique product or
service.
Temporary means that every project has a definite end
Unique means that the product or service is different in
some distinguishing way from all similar products or
service.
It is an endeavour in which human, machine, material
and financial resources are organised in a novel way to
undertake a unique scope of work or given specification
within constraints of cost and time so as to deliver
beneficial change defined by quantitative and qualitative
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Project Management Framework

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WHAT ARE THE INDICATORS OF
PROJECT SUCCESS/FAILURE

-TIME , BUDGET & QUALITY CONFINEMENT

-CUSTOMER/STAKEHOLDER SATISFACTION
-RETURN ON INVESTMENT
-INFRASTRUCTURE VISIBILITY

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 COMMENT ON THE SUCCESS/FAILURE
OF
THESE WELL KNOWN PUBLIC PROJECTS

ZIMBABWE CHISUMBANJE ETHANOL PROJECT

NASAS SPACESHIP COLUMBIA
DUALISATION OF HRE-NORTON Rd CONSTRUCTION
EURO TUNNEL
COPAC
MTZWP
GAUTRAIN
FIFA 2010 WORLD CUP
ZIMBABWES ALL-INCLUSIVE GOVT PROJECT 2009/10

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