Project Management Concepts and Practices

This assignment delves into fundamental project management principles, covering work breakdown structure decomposition challenges, the role of senior management, project planning processes, and various types of project plans (schedule, budget, communication, risk, change, scope). It also examines the purpose and contents of key project documentation like the Project Charter and Statement of Work. Finally, it explores Configuration Management within the context of project integration.

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Weekly portfolio: Week 9- Outputs vs. Outcomes
Weekly Portfolio Learning Table
Topic and
reading samples.
Your personal learning outcomes
from this course.
Learnings from your experience. Supporting documentation
including your prior learnings.
Outputs vs.
Outcomes
The project outputs and outcomes are
analysed for developing a comparative
analysis of the project integration and
management. The analysis would include a
comparison of the project outputs and
outcomes by the help of developing an
analysis of the project integration and
development of the operations and analysis.
The analysis of the project would integrate
the analysis of the project operations. We
have came to realize the development of
the understanding and analysis of the
project integration management.
Nogeste, K. and Walker, D.H., 2005. Project
outcomes and outputs: making the intangible
tangible. Measuring Business Excellence, 9(4),
pp.55-68.
Kerzner Chapter
11.9-11.14, 11.22-
11.29
The use of effective communication, review
and sign of initial documents (project charter),
and procurement documents are used for
ensuring that the operations of the project are
completed in the estimated time and
development.
The formation of the project documentation
would help them in understanding the
project criteria’s like work break down
structure, work statement, and program
plan.
Kerzner, H., 2013. Project management: a
systems approach to planning, scheduling, and
controlling. John Wiley & Sons.
PMI Implementing
Organizational PM
Chapter 5
The process of planning and development
of the improved processed would develop
the modification of the improvement and
analysis of the system development. The
development of the project integration
and deployment would form the analysis
of the operations and formation of the
improved functional analysis and
Planning is the process of setting some
activities and processes after deep analysis
and study for the integration of the project
for achieving the expected outcomes and
delivery. The planning consists of Initial
Phase, Planning Phase, Implementation
Phase, and Project Closure
Nogeste, K. and Walker, D.H., 2008.
Development of a method to improve the
definition and alignment of intangible project
outcomes and tangible project
outputs. International Journal of Managing
Projects in Business, 1(2), pp.279-287.
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Topic and
reading samples.
Your personal learning outcomes
from this course.
Learnings from your experience. Supporting documentation
including your prior learnings.
monitoring the operations of the project.
PMI Managing
Change Chapter 5
The project management effectiveness can be
described as the option of implementing the
development of the operations and
deployment of the principles for effectively
running the operations of the project.
We can form an estimation of the improved
development models in alignment of the
effective and improved development
models. It would help in forming the
development of the improved functional
analysis.
Walker, D. and Dart, C.J., 2011. Frontinus—A
project manager from the Roman Empire
era. Project management journal, 42(5), pp.4-
16.
Portfolio Reflection
The week 9 study was developed for forming the development of the analysis of the outcomes and outputs for the project. The analysis would include a
comparison of the project outputs and outcomes by the help of developing an analysis of the project integration and development of the operations and
analysis. The use of effective communication, review and sign of initial documents (project charter), and procurement documents are used for developing
project specifications and analysis.
The development of the work breakdown structure requires the following of the steps mentioned below,
i. Starting with analysis of high level tasks
ii. Developing the subtasks of the high level tasks
iii. Describing each of the tasks
The decomposition of the work breakdown structure would result in issues of being unable to know when to stop, issues in dealing with the group
dynamics, sequencing issues, deliverables issue, and unable for grouping the activities.
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The senior manager or top level manager or executives are responsible for the decision taking and resource providing activities of the project.
Yes senior management is important for a project.
The executives are responsible for the review and approval of the project plan during the planning phase.
Once, I had to develop a project plan for community function held near my home place. I had to ensure that all the necessary and important information
are transferred to the owner stakeholders. The community head was not helpful in making any adjustments in the requirements and even though it was
relevant. I had to convince the community head by making him understand about the need of quality of the project outcomes in place of the quantity
output from the project.
A project plan comprises of developing a schedule of the project listing all the activities of the project along with the required resources and their
distribution. It is made for ensuring that the operations of the project are scheduled and completed in the estimated time duration.
The different types of plans in a project are project schedule plan, project budget plan, communication plan, risk management plan, change management
plan, and scope management plan.
Project Charter is a document that comprises of initial project scope, background, description, assumptions, constraints, schedule milestones, and cost
benefit analysis. It would serve the purpose of initial documentation along with information transfer document for the stakeholders.
Statement of work is a document that comprises of developing the concise document that exhibits the project basic requirement analysis and the
completion of the project.
Configuration Management is implied for developing the analysis of the effective and improvement analysis for the development of the project integration
management. The management of the project would comprise of developing the system integration of the operations.
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References
Kerzner, H., 2013. Project management: a systems approach to planning, scheduling, and controlling. John Wiley & Sons.
Nogeste, K. and Walker, D.H., 2005. Project outcomes and outputs: making the intangible tangible. Measuring Business Excellence, 9(4), pp.55-68.
Nogeste, K. and Walker, D.H., 2008. Development of a method to improve the definition and alignment of intangible project outcomes and tangible project
outputs. International Journal of Managing Projects in Business, 1(2), pp.279-287.
Walker, D. and Dart, C.J., 2011. Frontinus—A project manager from the Roman Empire era. Project management journal, 42(5), pp.4-16.
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