project planning

A project is a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product or service. Temporary means that the project has an end date. Unique means that the project's end result is different than the results of other functions of the organization. It can also comprise an ambitious plan to define and constrain a future by limiting it to set goals and parameters. The planning, execution and monitoring of major projects sometimes involves setting up a special temporary organization, consisting of a project team and one or more work ...

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Whether the WBS should be activity-oriented or deliverable-oriented is a subject of much discussion. There are also various approaches to building the WBS for a project (see e.g. How to Build a Work Breakdown Structure below). Project management software, when used properly, can be very helpful in developing a WBS, although in early stages of WBS development, plain sticky notes are the best tool (especially in teams). An example of a work breakdown for painting a room (activity-oriented) is, to state the obvious: ...

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Project Management tries to gain control over five variables: time - The amount of time required to complete the project. Typically broken down for analytical purposes into the time required to complete the components of the project, which is then further broken down into the time required to complete each task contributing to the completion of each component. cost - Calculated from the time variable. Cost to develop an internal project is time multiplied by the cost of the team members involved. When hiring an independ ...

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Project management tries to gain control over five variables: time - The amount of time required to complete the project. Typically broken down for analytical purposes into the time required to complete the components of the project, which is then further broken down into the time required to complete each task contributing to the completion of each component. cost - Calculated from the time variable. Cost to develop an internal project is time multiplied by the cost of the team members involved. When hiring an independ ...

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Project management, Project management - Project management activities, Project management - Project control variables, Project management - History of project management, Project management - Approaches, Project management - The traditional approach, Project management - Process-based management, Project management - Project management standards and professional certification, Project management - Case Studies

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There are several approaches that can be taken to managing project activities including agile, iterative, incremental, and phased approaches. A traditional phased approach identifies a sequence of steps to be completed. This contrasts with the agile software development or flexible product development approach at the other end of the spectrum, in which the project is seen as a series of relatively small tasks conceived and executed as the situation demands in an adaptive manner, ...

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Project management, Project management - Project Management activities, Project management - Project control variables, Project management - History of Project Management, Project management - Approaches, Project management - The traditional approach, Project management - Process-based management, Project management - Project management and professional certification, Project management - Case Studies, Project management - Literature

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Also furthering the concept of project control is the incorporation of process-based management. This area has been driven by the use of Maturity models such as the CMMi (Capability Maturity Model Integration) and ISO/IEC15504 (SPICE - [[Software Process Improvement Capability ent is far more successful. Agile project management approaches based on the principles of human interaction management are founded on a process view of HUMAN collaboration.. ...

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Project management, Project management - Project Management activities, Project management - Project control variables, Project management - History of Project Management, Project management - Approaches, Project management - The traditional approach, Project management - Process-based management, Project management - Project management and professional certification, Project management - Case Studies, Project management - Literature

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There have been several attempts to develop project management standards, such as: ISO 10006:1997, Quality management - Guidelines to quality in project management A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide) PRINCE2 (Projects IN a Controlled Environment) V-Modell (German project management method) ISEB Project Management Syllabus See also: An exhaustive list of standards (maturity models) So far, there is no known attempt to develop a project management standard available unde ...

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Project management, Project management - Project Management activities, Project management - Project control variables, Project management - History of Project Management, Project management - Approaches, Project management - The traditional approach, Project management - Process-based management, Project management - Project management and professional certification, Project management - Case Studies, Project management - Literature

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Project Management was not used as an isolated concept before the Sputnik crisis of the Cold War. After this crisis, the United States Department of Defense needed to speed up the military project process. New tools (models) for achieving this goal were invented. In 1958 they invented the Program Evaluation and Review Technique or PERT, as part of the Polaris missile submarine program. At the same time, the DuPont corporation invented a similar model called CPM, critical path method. PERT was later extended with a work breakdown structure or WBS. The process flow and structure of the ...

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Project management, Project management - Project Management activities, Project management - Project control variables, Project management - History of Project Management, Project management - Approaches, Project management - The traditional approach, Project management - Process-based management, Project management - Project management and professional certification, Project management - Case Studies, Project management - Literature

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In the traditional approach, we can distinguish 5 components of a project (4 stages plus control) in the development of a project: project initiation (Kickoff) project planning project production or execution project monitoring or controlling project completion Not all projects will visit every stage as projects can be terminated before they reach completion. Some projects probably don't have the planning and/or the monitoring. ...

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Project management, Project management - Project Management activities, Project management - Project control variables, Project management - History of Project Management, Project management - Approaches, Project management - The traditional approach, Project management - Process-based management, Project management - Project management and professional certification, Project management - Case Studies, Project management - Literature

Read more here: » Project management: Encyclopedia II - Project management - The traditional approach

Also furthering the concept of project control is the incorporation of process-based management. This area has been driven by the use of Maturity models such as the CMMi (Capability Maturity Model Integration) and ISO/IEC15504 (SPICE - [[Software Process Improvement Capability ent is far more successful. Agile project management approaches based on the principles of human interaction management are founded on a process view of HUMAN collaboration.. ...

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Project management, Project management - Project management activities, Project management - Project control variables, Project management - History of project management, Project management - Approaches, Project management - The traditional approach, Project management - Process-based management, Project management - Project management standards and professional certification, Project management - Case Studies

Read more here: » Project management: Encyclopedia II - Project management - Process-based management

Project management was not used as an isolated concept before the Sputnik crisis of the Cold War. After this crisis, the United States Department of Defense needed to speed up the military project process. New tools (models) for achieving this goal were invented. In 1958 they invented the Program Evaluation and Review Technique or PERT, as part of the Polaris missile submarine program. At the same time, the DuPont corporation invented a similar model called CPM, critical path method. PERT was later extended with a work breakdown structure or WBS. The process flow and structure of the ...

See also:

Project management, Project management - Project management activities, Project management - Project control variables, Project management - History of project management, Project management - Approaches, Project management - The traditional approach, Project management - Process-based management, Project management - Project management standards and professional certification, Project management - Case Studies

Read more here: » Project management: Encyclopedia II - Project management - History of project management

There are several approaches that can be taken to managing project activities including agile, iterative, incremental, and phased approaches. A traditional phased approach identifies a sequence of steps to be completed. This contrasts with the agile software development or flexible product development approach at the other end of the spectrum, in which the project is seen as a series of relatively small tasks conceived and executed as the situation demands in an adaptive manner, ...

See also:

Project management, Project management - Project management activities, Project management - Project control variables, Project management - History of project management, Project management - Approaches, Project management - The traditional approach, Project management - Process-based management, Project management - Project management standards and professional certification, Project management - Case Studies

Read more here: » Project management: Encyclopedia II - Project management - Approaches

In the traditional approach, we can distinguish 5 components of a project (4 stages plus control) in the development of a project: project initiation (Kickoff) project planning project production or execution project monitoring or controlling project completion Not all projects will visit every stage as projects can be terminated before they reach completion. Some projects probably don't have the planning and/or the monitoring. ...

See also:

Project management, Project management - Project management activities, Project management - Project control variables, Project management - History of project management, Project management - Approaches, Project management - The traditional approach, Project management - Process-based management, Project management - Project management standards and professional certification, Project management - Case Studies

Read more here: » Project management: Encyclopedia II - Project management - The traditional approach

There have been several attempts to develop project management standards, such as: ISO 10006:1997, Quality management - Guidelines to quality in project management A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide) PRINCE2 (Projects IN a Controlled Environment) V-Modell (German project management method) ISEB Project Management Syllabus See also: An exhaustive list of standards (maturity models) So far, there is no known attempt to develop a project management standard avai ...

See also:

Project management, Project management - Project management activities, Project management - Project control variables, Project management - History of project management, Project management - Approaches, Project management - The traditional approach, Project management - Process-based management, Project management - Project management standards and professional certification, Project management - Case Studies

Read more here: » Project management: Encyclopedia II - Project management - Project management standards and professional certification