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Project Planning Strategies for Effective Execution

Explore the concepts and principles of project planning to efficiently achieve project objectives. Learn about task lists, cost estimation, resource allocation, and the benefits of robust planning. Use tools like Gantt charts and critical path analysis to streamline project timelines. Understand the big picture of project management and set clear goals for successful execution. Evaluate competitive analysis, technology integration, team resources, and project procedures to drive project success. Analyze the current project status and stay on track with your assignment.

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Project Planning Strategies for Effective Execution

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  1. Project Planning Wentworth Institute of Technology Electronic Design I Prof. Tim Johnson Chapter 7

  2. Concepts and Principles • What is it that we’re going to do? • A list of tasks required to complete a project. • To Do list • Sequentially listed • What is it going to cost? • Time • Money • Resources commitment • People, Plant, & Provisions

  3. Benefits of Planning • Framework for communications • Clients • Co-workers • Resource allocations • Benchmark for assessment of progress • Guide for decision making • Proposal to business plan

  4. Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun July Sep Oct Nov Dec Planning Tools—Gantt Chart • List of tasks vs. time • Use Microsoft Project

  5. Planning Tools—Critical Path • Network diagram with directed line segments (lines & circles) • Similar to Functional Block Diagram • Looks at: • Activities • Events • Identifies bottlenecks in projects

  6. The Big Picture • Project doesn’t exist in isolation • Let’s look at a Power Point templet used by businesses. • The next 8 slides are the example. • Followed by your assignment.

  7. Project Goals • Ultimate goal of project • Relationship to other projects • High-level timing goals

  8. Description • Describe the project in non-technical terms. • Use following slides for discussing status, schedules, budget, etc. FOR MORE INFO... List location or contact for specification (or other related documents) here

  9. Competitive Analysis • Competitors • (You may want to allocate one slide per competitor) • Strengths • Your strengths relative to competitors • Weaknesses • Your weaknesses relative to competitor

  10. Competitive Analysis, Cont. • Competitors • Strengths • Weaknesses FOR MORE INFO... List location or contact for competitive analysis (or other related documents) here

  11. Technology • New technology being used • Benefits • Standards being adopted • Benefits • Standards specifically being ignored • Drawbacks & benefits DYA: define your acronyms!

  12. Team/Resources • State assumptions about resources allocated to this project • People • Equipment • Locations • Support & outside services • Manufacturing • Sales

  13. Procedures • Highlight any procedural differences from regular projects of this type • Discuss requirements, benefits, and issues of using new procedures FOR MORE INFO... List location or contact for procedures document (or other related documents) here

  14. Current Status • High-level overview of progress against schedule • On-track in what areas • Behind in what areas • Ahead in what areas • Unexpected delays or issues

  15. Your Assignment • Draw up a Gantt chart for the solder iron project. • Use MS Project found on all the computers here at WIT. • Show the time line for the entire project, start to finish. • Remember, we still have to write the user manual & the technical manual.

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