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SOW / Open Workbench. By Wilmer Arellano Summer 2013. Project management. Product development involves: many people many different tasks . Successful product development projects result in: Efficient use of time, Monetary savings high-quality; Saving in other resources.
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SOW / Open Workbench By Wilmer Arellano Summer 2013
Project management • Product development involves: • many people • many different tasks. • Successful product development projects result in: • Efficient use of time, • Monetary savings • high-quality; • Saving in other resources. • Project management is the activity of planning and coordinating resources and tasks to achieve the project goals.
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) • The WBS is the hierarchical list of the project's phases, tasks and milestones • Phase: A group of related tasks that completes a major step in a project. • Task: An activity that has a beginning and an end. Project plans are made up of tasks. • Milestone: A reference point marking a major event in a project and used to monitor the project's progress. • Scope: The combination of all project goals and tasks, and the work required to accomplish them. • The scope translates into the timeline and budget. • Budget: The estimated cost of a project. • http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA011361531033.aspx#Step%201
Phase: A group of related tasks that completes a major step in a project. Task: An activity that has a beginning and an end. The end is marked by a deliverable
Project Timeline/ Sequential Tasks • Tasks are sequential when they are dependent on the output of another task. These because the dependencies impose a sequential order in which the tasks must be completed. • We do not necessarily mean that the later task cannot be started before the earlier one has been completed
Project Timeline/ Parallel task • Two tasks are parallel when they are both dependent on the same task but are independent of each other.
Milestones • Examples: • Prototype Implementation. • Testing. • Documentation. • Demonstration. • Each Milestone should be explained with a sentence or two
PERT Charts / The Critical Path • The dependencies among the tasks in a PERT chart, some of which may be arranged sequentially and some of which may be arranged in parallel, lead to the concept of a critical path. The critical path is the longest chain of dependent events.
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