Project Initiation

Project Initiation
 Types of projects
 Development
 Maintenance and Enhancement
 Production Support
 Testing

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Project Initiation
 There is no single way to manage project
 Project Management is application of
 Knowledge
 Skills
 Processes

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Project Initiation Activities
 Analyze and understand the scope
 Document specific criteria of the
requirements
 Understand how to take the identified
information and transform it into a Project
Management Plan
 Prepare the work breakdown structure
 Analyze project risks

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Project Initiation
 It includes the processes required to ensure
that the various elements of the project are
properly coordinated

 It involves making tradeoffs among

competing objectives and alternatives to meet
or exceed stakeholder needs and expectations

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It involves

 Develop project charter

 Develop project scope statement

 Develop project management plan

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Develop Project Charter
 Project charter is a document that formally
authorizes the project
 The project charter provides the project
manager with the authority to apply
organizational resources to project activities

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Contents of Project Charter
 Requirements that satisfy customer, sponsor and
other stakeholders’ needs, wants and expectations
 Business needs, high level project description
 Project purpose or justification
 Assigned project manager and authority level
 Summary milestone schedule
 Stakeholder influences
 Assumptions, constraints
 Business case justifying the project
 Summary budget

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Inputs to Project Charter
 Contract
 Project Statement of Work
 Business Needs
 Product scope description
 Strategic plan

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Tools and Techniques
 Project Selection Methods

 Project Management Methodology

 Project Management Information System

 Expert Judgment

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Project Scope Statement
 It is the definition of the project
 What needs to be accomplished in the project
 It addresses and documents the characteristics
and boundaries of the project and its
associated products and services as well as
the methods of acceptance and scope control

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Project Scope Statement
 Project and product objectives
 Product or service requirements and characteristics
 Product acceptance criteria
 Project boundaries
 Project requirements and deliverables
 Project constraints
 Initial project organization
 Project assumptions
 Initial defined tools
 Schedule milestones
 Initial WBS (Work Breakdown Structure)
 Cost estimate
 Project Configuration Management Requirements

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Inputs to Project Scope Statement
 Project charter
 Project statement of work
 Enterprise environmental factors
 Organizational process assets

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Project Management Plan
 It includes the actions necessary to define,
integrate and coordinate all subsidiary plans
into a project management plan

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Contents of Project Management Plan
 Project scope management plan
 Schedule management plan
 Cost management plan
 Quality management plan
 Process improvement plan
 Staffing management plan
 Communication management plan
 Risk management plan
 Procurement management plan

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Inputs to Project Management Plan
 Project scope statement
 Project management processes
 Enterprise environmental factors
 Organizational process assets

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Assignment
 Prepare the following for your project
 Project Management Plan

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Questions ????