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Managing Projects

Building the Project Budget

Sources of Costs - 1

• People
  • Internal mangers
  • Internal technical
  • Internal functional
  • Internal service & support
  • Vendor consultants
  • Independent consultants

Sources of Costs - 3

• Services
  • Duplication
  • Graphics
  • Documentation
  • Training
    • On new hardware/OS/DBMS
    • On new software
      • Environment management
      • End user training
  • Presentations
  • Celebrations
  • Travel

Sources of Costs - 4

• Other Costs
  • Telephone
  • Paper
• Contingency & Discretionary Funds

Managing Projects

Managing Multiple Projects

Managing Multiple Projects: Building the Project Slate Every information technology organization must manage multiple projects. One of the best way to accomplish this is through a “projects inventory” database and through agreed upon processes and standards.

Evaluation Models

• Models can be:
  • Iconic
  • Analog
  • Semantic
  • Graphical
  • Mathematical
    • Deterministic
    • Stocastic

Good Models are …

• Realistic
• Capable
• Flexible
• Easy to use
• Affordable

There are non-numeric ways to select a slate

• Sacred cows
• Operating Necessity
• Competitive Necessity
• Product-line Extension
• Comparative Benefits

There are Tools for Project Slate Management

• Pacific Edge
• U of M’s Project Information System
• MSProject Server