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Effective Project Management Strategies for Control and Optimization

Learn how to manage and control project costs, resources, quality, and delivery dates effectively. Discover tools and techniques to stay on track and optimize project performance.

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Effective Project Management Strategies for Control and Optimization

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  1. Project Management 30 January

  2. Odds and ends • Tournament on the web • In the news

  3. What can you be controlled? • Cost • Number of people • Hours worked • Hardware and software used • Capability • Function that you ship • Quality • Procedures that increase cost and quality • Testing • Delivery • Dates

  4. What can you control? • Cost • Number of people • Hours worked • Hardware and software used • Capability • Function that you ship • Quality • Procedures that increase cost and quality • Testing • Delivery • Dates

  5. So what will you do if you’re behind?

  6. Organization • Needed to control communications cost • Channel of communications costs about 2 hours per week • Optimal number 3-7 • Organization structures • Hierarchical • Peer • Requires leader of team or aspects • Subteam • Requires gatekeeper • Matrix

  7. How to Build a Schedule • Identify the component parts • Identify the dependencies • Estimate • Really just another word for guess • Prefer educated guess • Lay out assignments and time frames

  8. Tools to Help • Product description • Clear statement of what you are building • Work breakdown • Product flow • PERT charts • Program Evaluation and Review Technique • Gantt charts

  9. Work Breakdown Structure • Need to break down the tasks into component parts and tasks • Level of detail important • Lacks any time component

  10. Work Breakdown

  11. Graphical WBS

  12. Product Flow • Identify sequences and dependencies • Distinguish new from existing components

  13. Product Flow

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