EMGT 330 Project Management Basics

K. Peng

EMGT 330
Project Management Basics

Fall 2015
Engineering Management
College of Engineering
Santa Clara University
Rev. 9-15

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Course Outline
EMGT 330 Project Management Basics
1. Class Logistics, introduction, definitions
2. Strategic planning, success elements, the needs
for project management
3. Project selection and life cycle
4. Project planning, WBS, schedule, and cost
5. Risk management
6. Project control
7. Project evaluation, reporting, and termination
8. Project organization
9. Project roles and responsibilities
10. International project management
11. Project information systems
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Introduction

Name
Education Background
Purpose of taking this class
Project Management Experiences

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The Structure of Scientific

Revolutions

Thomas Kuhn

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Overview
All work can be categorized as either
operational or project-oriented
Operational work describes any continuing
endeavor that produce many identical, or nearly
identical, products or services (e.g. frying burgers,
manufacturing cars, teaching algebra)
Projects are temporary endeavors undertaken to
create a unique product or service (e.g. engineering
a new car, building a skyscraper, planning your
wedding)
A program is a special case of project-oriented work that
combines any number of inter-related projects under a
single structure.

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Project Characteristics

Definable purpose, end-item, or result.

Unique.
Temporary.
Across organizational lines.
Unfamiliarity, uncertainty, and risk.
Significance and important impact.
Process with life cycle: a beginning
and a end.
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Project Management & Manager

Project Management is the art of
using a variety of techniques to
combine inter-related resources,
within defined constraints, in
order to accomplish the goal of
the project.
The Project Manager is the
individual ultimately responsible
for managing the project.
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Forms of Project Management

Basic Project Management
Pure project and matrix

Program Management
Longer time horizon 5 year +
Parallel and sequential projects

New Venture Management

Creating new product or market in
consumer-oriented firms

Ad hoc Committees and task forces

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Key Elements of Project

Management

Organizational design
Project planning
Information systems
Project control systems
Cultural ambience

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Types of Project Manager

Project expeditor
Unity of communication.

Project coordinator
Unity of control

Matrix manager
Unity of direction

Pure project manager

Unity of command
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Project Manager & Project Team

Project Manager
Goal-oriented
Focal point of integration
Negotiation

Project Team

Cross-functional
Diverse
Often under two chain-of-command
Sharing decision making, accountability,
outcomes, and rewards.
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Project Stakeholders
Stakeholders individuals and organizations
that are either actively involved in the project
or whose interests may be positively or
negatively affected by the project or its
outcome
Stakeholders include

project sponsor(s)
project manager(s)
project team(s)
support staff
customers
users
suppliers
opponents to the project.
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Textbook Readings
Nicholas textbook Introduction: I.3,
I.5, I.6, I.7, and I.9. Ch1: 1.2, 1.3, 1.6

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