Organizational Change Management, Sustained Leadership, and Continuous Improvement
Discuss About The Information Technology Project Management.
Presentation From this particular unit I have learned about the best practices which the enterprise and an individual should make for the proper success of any project. The best practices will ultimately help in having competitive advantage. The presentation file provides basic idea which is required for assessing the read lines. In the first stage, three organizational that is organization change management, sustained leadership and continuous improvement have been discussed in details. In the further step project feasibility has been taken into account. In the third, a business case has been provided for the executive proposal. Feasibility of the project is mainly analysed by cost benefit along with strategic need. It is the duty of project manager to analyse the present state of the organization and depending on it proper kind of blueprint must be provided. Project manager and his team members should access the present state of the organization, followed by future state. They should prepare a proper kind of project plan. After that they should conduct feasibility study along with cost benefit analysis. Feasibility analysis mainly help in checking the fact that whether the project will have completed in time or not. While cost benefit analysis will help analysing the fact the project will provide financial benefits or not. Lecture slide
Kerzner Chapter 1 This is inclusive of learning. Various methods of classification of project has been provided. In this part, I have analysed various methods which are used for classification of a project. A project is mainly classified into various kinds of groups and as per it per defined functionality is provided. Kerzner, H., & Kerzner, H. R. (2017). Project management: a systems approach to planning, scheduling, and controlling. John Wiley & Sons.
Egelstaff (2013) Academic assignments: Critical thinking and writing critically It includes various kinds of accessing readiness which can be used for implementation of organization PM. In this part I have learned about various roles and responsibilities of a project manager of a team. Senior project manager is mainly associated with planning phase of large number of documents. Lecture slide
Journals & Standards Critical factors for the success of a project The ultimate reason behind the success of a project is its monitoring in proper way. Project manager is mainly responsible for tracking the success of any project. It mainly ensures the fact that project is mainly schedules as per the setting.
Project Feasibility and Business Case Analysis
PMJ Change in organization and management of project. (Slides from lecture 5) Project management is mainly associated for effective management of a project. It is mainly lead by a project manager. It is mainly associated with in transferring of power from the line manager to the project manager. It is not designed for transferring of power rather it is much associated with managing of project in more efficient way. Lecture slides
Tutorials and lecture slides Change in organization and management of project. (Slides from lecture 5) Project management in organization of project driven is generally compared to a non-project and so growth of career differs to a large extent in both organizations which is provided. Having a proper idea regarding tools and techniques will help in essential management of different kinds of projects. It is will ultimately help in developing a successful kind of career in the coming future. Kerzner, H., & Kerzner, H. R. (2017). Project management: a systems approach to planning, scheduling, and controlling. John Wiley & Sons.
Text books and tutorials Various kinds of structure of organization is mainly inclusive of division, function, process and matrix based organization structure. Various personnel who are working in project should attend seminar at least once in three months so that they can easily get better understating of the project. Definitely the frequency totally depends on the selected organization of a project.
Every department a head to whom it is expected to report at regular interval. Kerzner, H., & Kerzner, H. R. (2017). Project management: a systems approach to planning, scheduling, and controlling. John Wiley & Sons.
Topic and reading samples. Your personal learning outcomes from this unit. Learnings from your experience. Supporting documentation including your prior learnings.
Project management methodologies Lecture slides of week 6. Project manager should analyse the various business strategy which will ultimately improve the activity of an organization. OPM framework is considered to be much useful. I have learnt the fact that various organization with help of OPM framework has easily analyse the current state and various kinds of improvements which is encountered in the near future. It is the duty of project manager to check the requirements of an organization followed by an analysis in the near future. Future of any project mainly depends on strategy which is undertaken by an organization. Team of management is mainly associated with improvisation of various business process. Prince model is mainly associated with associated risk, plans and progress. The project progress is mainly inclusive with direction of a project. After that initiation of a project is taken into account. It is the duty of project manager to proper manage state boundary along with managing delivery of a project. In the end the closing phase of the project is taken into account. It is the duty of project board to ensure proper kind of decision, effective communication and after that they should promote the idea of cross-function integration. In the end I have concluded the fact that project manager should give a proper list of large number of projects and various kinds of goals which project is much focused to addresses.
Classification of Projects and Methods
Kerzner Chapter 1.8-1.10, & 10 & 11.25; It is totally the responsibility of project manager which is mainly set as per the goals of an organization in a way that it can easily bring a large amount of benefit to an organization. Project manager not only associated with managing of a project along with this they are managing a project along with it is there duty to ensure the fact the project comes up with maximum profit in the end. Kerzner, H., & Kerzner, H. R. (2017). Project management: a systems approach to planning, scheduling, and controlling. John Wiley & Sons.
Egelstaff (2013) Academic assignments: Critical thinking and writing critically Tutorials along with Kerzner Age should not be considered as a barrier for the time interval for an executive to easily have project and it is mainly associated with experience of a project on the way how a project can be easily managed easily.
Journals & Standards Various responsibilities of project manager in the lecture of week 6 In some case it is encountered that project manager is inefficient in the proper functional line of project. It is duty of project manager to easily fulfil the various objectives of a project in the stage of planning. Inefficiencies of the functional line should be checked so that various delays in project is reduced. Various executive management are involved in a project if and only if the project is on high priority. Tutorials
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- PMJ This particular week learning mainly includes various process of project management and slides of lecture Support of top management is considered to be very essential for every project manager for properly managing of objectives of project. If needed project managers should be limited from publishing prerequisites which is generally placed on the top of the management in regards to various standard procedures of an organization. Generally, project manager tend to have a better idea about various processes of a project.
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Tutorials Various text books and tutorials. Project sponsor generally does not have idea regarding the fact that various house representative should be removed from an organization. But in some cases it seen that project sponsor removes house representative because of his poor performance in the organization in comparison to various project related works.
In some cases it is seen that project manager begins to focus much on Kerzner, H., & Kerzner, H. R. (2017). Project management: a systems approach to planning, scheduling, and controlling. John Wiley & Sons.
Lecture slides Lecture slides and tutorials of week 6 From the week lecture and various learning tutorials I have learned the fact project manager mainly bears the full responsibility for successful delivery of the projects
Topic and reading samples. Your personal learning outcomes from this unit. Learnings from your experience. Supporting documentation including your prior learnings.
Project Planning and Scheduling Methodology can easily bring structure to an organization. I have recognized the fact that various project methodologies can be considered to be important for attaining success of a project. Prince2 will ultimately help the organization to have various objectives in an effective way. It is the duty of management staff to take into account the various objectives of a business. They just need to implement Prince2 model as per the objective of various business. The project manager of an organization mainly describes process of project along with various document format. Governance mainly enables continuous managing of various projects and also focus on various kinds of decision making. Project manager needs to review various portfolio forts. It also need to check the necessary skills which is needed for a project. They are mainly associated with various kinds of gaps which are involved in a project. Various Gaps mainly helps in analysing the fact that where improvements are needed. PM can easily adopt various kinds of strategies like prince2 for easily carrying into various project methodologies. It is the duty of project manager to review the impact of prince2 model on various enterprise and project. They can even check the performance of business depending on various goals. Smart goals mainly consist of a series of steps like specific, attainable and lastly time focused. By this method project manager can easily check the various kinds of risk which are associated with project. And depending on various kinds of risk possible solution can be easily provided.
Roles and Responsibilities of a Project Manager
In the end it can be easily concluded that this week learning helped in having an idea regarding understanding the various kinds of problems which can easily arise from development phase of the project.
Scheduling of project is considered to be an important aspect in its execution. Planning step mainly checks total kind of problem which mainly schedules like study of feasibility and gathering of various requirements. Various steps are mainly associated with project scheduling like evaluation of goals of various projects, activities of project and sequencing of activities in a proper way. Kerzner, H., & Kerzner, H. R. (2017). Project management: a systems approach to planning, scheduling, and controlling. John Wiley & Sons.
Kerzner Chapter 11.9-11.14, 11.22-11.29 Tutorials and books From my experience, the whole method of project planning is generally incorporated and helps in details understanding of various project objectives and setting up of proper kinds of goals. Kerzner, H., & Kerzner, H. R. (2017). Project management: a systems approach to planning, scheduling, and controlling. John Wiley & Sons.
PMI Implementing Organizational PM Chapter 5 Project manager mainly checks the complex nature of a project by analysing various requirements of a project.
Breakdown of various project work mainly helps in allocation of resources much easier. For proper development of WBS the functional manager should identify the various requirements of a project.
Journals & Standards Chapters from Kerzner as provided I have not encountered any kind of situation in which functional manager is more focused in proper planning of project.
Various kinds of conflict are mainly associated when taking the priority of various task, procedure of administration and lastly technical option of any project.
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- PMJ Gathered experiences which are involved in managing of various projects Generally, a customer and contractor have a clear idea regarding the various kinds of understanding regarding statement of work and various program plan which is related to progress of project.
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In a project, for ensuring the fact that project stakeholders should have proper idea regarding progress of project. I have developed a project communication plan which is mainly followed by project team members in establishing the progress of report.
There is mainly some defined communication which is followed by each kind of team members for ensuring the progress of report. After that it is important information is mainly communicated to large number of team members. Beside mobile phones, email social media also plays a key role in establishing communication with important project information to various team members. Social media also help the various project stakeholders in having proper updates regarding the update of various information.
On the contrary, meetings of regular interval are considered to important part of the project. This is mainly considered as meetings on regular interval are associated with a project. It is not always possible for ringing on regular interval when a team is considered to be huge in number. Call on conference is considered to be good initiative when team members wants to establish a proper communication with one or more person at same time. Kerzner, H., & Kerzner, H. R. (2017). Project management: a systems approach to planning, scheduling, and controlling. John Wiley & Sons.
Critical Factors for the Success of a Project
Development or upgradation of WBS of a project mainly includes identification of various requirements of a project. The project requirements are generally scheduled and planned as per allocated time which is needed for completing of a project. A good understating of the needs of a project is considered to be essential for development of WBS. The choice of kind of WBS mainly depends on very long projects and various kinds of time phase which is used in the project.
Topic and reading samples. Your personal learning outcomes from this unit. Learnings from your experience. Supporting documentation including your prior learnings.
Project Management From this particular unit I have learned about various project managers and stakeholders of a project which tend to work in collaborative way. It is much focused to provide project methodology for providing the best kind of outcome. Generally, a project manager is mainly associated with preparing of a project plan. Various kinds of stakeholders are mainly assigned to a project which mainly works as per plan of project. Project stakeholders should take the responsibility of project plan. A project plan mainly consists of large number of steps. Work plan mainly provides the budget which is required for completing the project. The stakeholders of any project should follow the dictionary of WBS. The software project should be carried as per the SDLC life cycle phases. It is the duty of stakeholders of projects to follow various steps and complete the project in given interval of time.
Specification is mainly associated with various requirements of a project. Various kinds of steps are mainly involved in development or upgradation of various components of a project. It mainly checks the fact that the given activity can be easily completed in schedule which is provided.
Kerzner Chapter 11.9-11.14, 11.22-11.29; Text book Various kinds of problems are mainly discussed with decomposition of WBS which is inclusive of creep and various kinds of changes in the domain of project along with various kinds of issues which is used for controlling with the various changes which are associated with a project. Kerzner, H., & Kerzner, H. R. (2017). Project management: a systems approach to planning, scheduling, and controlling. John Wiley & Sons.
Egelstaff (2013) Academic assignments: Critical thinking and writing critically Various tutorials and text books Various kinds of top level executives of a project is mainly associated for analysing and tracking of various kinds of project which are in progress. Use of proper project management tools helps in monitoring of project in much efficient way.
Project Management Methodologies
Journals & Standards Lecture slides from week 8 This is a particular situation in which someone else has come up with a situation during the first task involved a situation which has a dispute which has mainly occur as a result of dispute with various team members. No kind of politics is generally involved with various situation along with various difference in the opinion of various kinds of team members. Tutorials
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- PMJ Project plan generally provides an overview or idea regarding various kinds of activities and task which are involved in a project from expected bodies. Various kinds of plans are needed by project manager for developing of activities related to project plan and plan for communication.
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- PMI Managing Change Chapter 5; Tutorials . Project charter mainly provides a proper kind of idea regarding various kinds of roles and responsibilities which are involved in a project team member. It is also associated with analysing various kinds of stakeholders and authority of various project managers
Project charter is mainly prepared in the beginning phase of the project. Kerzner, H., & Kerzner, H. R. (2017). Project management: a systems approach to planning, scheduling, and controlling. John Wiley & Sons.
Kerzner chapters If somehow I have a plan, then I keep it personnel by tracking of progress of work and much focused to complete the given work in the provided schedule. Statement of work can be easily defined as a work which is needed for completing the project for achieving success.
Configuration management can be defined as a process which mainly aims in maintenance of consistency of performance of project.
Various project management methodology can be used for developing or enhancing the method of implementation and handling or handling of any project.
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