IT Project Management
(MSIT504)
Tessfu G. (PhD)
School of Computing
Department of Computer Science
Dire Dawa Institute of Technology
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IT Project Management
(MSIT504) Tessfu G. (PhD) School of Computing Department of Computer Science Dire Dawa Institute of Technology
Chapter 1 – Introduction to
Project Management
Introduction
- (^) Many organizations today have a new or renewed interest in project management.
- (^) Worldwide IT spending was $3.8 trillion in 2014, a 3. percent increase from 2013 spending.
- (^) The Project Management Institute estimates demand for 15.7 million project management jobs from 2010 to 2020, with 6.2 million of those jobs in the United States
Project Management Statistics
- (^) In 2013 (the most recent year of PMI’s salary survey), the average salary in U.S. dollars for someone in the project management profession was $108,000 per year in the United States; $134,658 in Australia, (the highest-paid country); and $24,201 in Egypt (the lowest-paid country).
- (^) The top skills employers look for in new college graduates are all related to project management: team-work, decision-making, problem-solving, and verbal communications.
- (^) Organizations waste $109 million for every $1 billion spent on projects, according to PMI’s Pulse of the Profession® report
Advantages of Using Formal
Project Management
- Better control of financial, physical, and human resources.
- (^) Improved customer relations
- (^) Shorter development times
- (^) Lower costs
- (^) Higher quality and increased reliability
- (^) Higher profit margins
- (^) Improved productivity
- Better internal coordination
- (^) Higher worker morale
What Is a Project?
- (^) A project is a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service, or result.
- (^) Operations is work done to sustain the business.
- (^) Projects end when their objectives have been reached or the project has been terminated.
- (^) Projects can be large or small and take a short or long time to complete.
Top Strategic Technologies for 2012
(Gartner)
- (^) Computing everywhere
- (^) The Internet of things
- (^) 3D printing
- Advanced, pervasive, and invisible analytics
Media Snapshot: Unproductive Apps
- (^) Gartner predicted that by 2014, there would be more than 70 billion mobile application downloads every year, but it was almost double.
- Facebook is by far the most downloaded app, and the most popular category of all apps continues to be games.
- (^) The challenge is to develop useful apps and get workers to focus on them instead of the many distracting options available.
Project and Program Managers
- (^) Project managers work with project sponsors,
project team, and other people involved in a
project to meet project goals.
- (^) Program : group of related projects managed in
a coordinated way to obtain benefits and control
not available from managing them individually.
- (^) Program managers oversee programs; often act
as bosses for project managers.
Figure: The Triple Constraint of Project
Management
Figure: Project Management
Framework
Project Stakeholders
- (^) Stakeholders are the people involved in or
affected by project activities
- (^) Stakeholders include
- (^) the project sponsor
- the project manager
- (^) the project team
- (^) support staff
- (^) customers
- (^) users
- (^) suppliers
- (^) opponents to the project
Project Management Tools and
Techniques
- (^) Project management tools and techniques
assist project managers and their teams in various
aspects of project management.
- (^) Some specific ones include
- (^) Project charter, scope statement, and WBS
( scope )
- (^) Gantt charts, network diagrams, critical path
analysis, critical chain scheduling ( time )
- (^) Cost estimates and earned value management
( cost )
Super Tools
- (^) “ Super tools ” are those tools that have high use
and high potential for improving project success,
such as:
- (^) Software for task scheduling (such as project management software)
- (^) Scope statements
- (^) Requirements analyses
- (^) Lessons-learned reports
- (^) Tools already extensively used that have been
found to improve project importance include:
- (^) Progress reports
- (^) Kick-off meetings
- (^) Gantt charts
- (^) Change requests
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