Project Management: Website Launch for Power Motors - CW1 Presentation

This presentation provides a comprehensive overview of project management principles applied to the scenario of launching a new website for Power Motors. The presentation begins by defining the concept of a project and its desired outcomes, specifically highlighting the goal of providing customers with real-time updates on their car repairs through live video feeds. It then delves into the identification of project stakeholders, including staff, sponsors, customers, and web designers. The presentation further explores organizational structures, contrasting functional, matrix, and project-based structures and their influence on project outcomes. It details the role of a project manager in planning, monitoring, and team leadership, as well as the project lifecycle. Key methodologies such as Agile Kanban and the Critical Path Method (CPM) are discussed. The presentation also examines essential team roles, including project managers, team leaders, and team members, alongside crucial team management skills such as communication and decision-making. The five stages of team development and the importance of effective team meetings are also highlighted, concluding with the significance of the project and its successful execution.

Project Management: CW1

Introduction
• This presentation is going to elaborate the requirements that need to complete
and manage a project.
• It is based on launching a new website by Power Motors, to provide the
accessibility to customers to get live videos about own car and how much time
the company will take more to repair it.

What is a Project
• Project can have defined as a group activity, which is designed for attainment of
a specific desired outcome.
• In this regard, Power Motors seeks to launch a new website, where customers
will get accessibility and information every time about own car's repairing
process, in visualize manner (live video) when they open online account.

What is a Project
• Project can have defined as a group activity, which is designed for attainment of
a specific desired outcome.
• In this regard, Power Motors seeks to launch a new website, where customers
will get accessibility and information every time about own car's repairing
process, in visualize manner (live video) when they open online account.

What is a Project
• Project can have defined as a group activity, which is designed for attainment of
a specific desired outcome.
• In this regard, Power Motors seeks to launch a new website, where customers
will get accessibility and information every time about own car's repairing
process, in visualize manner (live video) when they open online account.

What is a Project
• Project can have defined as a group activity, which is designed for attainment of
a specific desired outcome.
• In this regard, Power Motors seeks to launch a new website, where customers
will get accessibility and information every time about own car's repairing
process, in visualize manner (live video) when they open online account.

Project Stakeholders
• To conduct a project, it is essential for project
managers to identify the stakeholders first, who may
have affected by the same.
• In context with present project, the main people of
Power Motors that are associated with this, include
staff members, sponsors, team-members, customers,
web designers and marketing agencies.

Organisational Structure
• As a project cannot be run in isolation,
therefore, there are number of factors present
that influences it. For example – Human
resources, organisational structure, technology,
availability of resources etc. Among these
factors, structure of organisation affect the
present outcomes in high manner

Functional Structure
• Under this organisational structure,
nature of project structure can be
hierarchical, where activities are
divided as role of different
departments.

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• Project Structure – Here, activities are
assigned by dividing team-members as per
their expert areas as –

Influence of Organizational Structure
Influence of different type of
organisational structures
Particular
Functional
based
Structure
Matrix
based
Structure
Project
based
structure
Weak
Matrix
Balanced
Matrix
Strong
Matrix
Decision making power of
project manager
Not
specifically
Limited Less High High
Role of project manager Part-time Part-time Full-time Full-time Full-
time
Project-management team-
members' role
Part-time Part-time Part-time Full-time Full-
time

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• Matrix Structure – This structure
helps in providing better
coordination among team-members,
where structure is formulated via
integrating the number of
characteristics of both project-based
and functional-based structures.