INTERNATIONAL

PROJECT
MANAGEMENT
Introduction
 RECAP
PROJECT DEFINITION:
It's a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique
product, service or result. A project is temporary in that it
has a defined beginning and end in time, and therefore
defined scope and resources.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT:
Project management is the application of knowledge,
skills, tools, and techniques to project activities to meet
the project requirements
PROJECT TRIANGLE
or triple restriction
 KNOWLEDGE AREAS
INTEGRATION MANAGEMENT:
It is present in each part of the project Life cycle.
It help us see the whole project and all of its aspects.
This knowledge area help us develop one basic tool: the
project Charter
1.Project Charter: All projects begin with a project charter
 PROJECT CHARTER
WHAT DOES A PROJECT CHARTER CONTAIN?:
A project Charter explain to us WHY do we need this
project.
It states the project business, the expectations (even if
not clear) of the client or sponsor, the expected
execution period, the ideal budget

Exercise: What is wrong in this document?

PROJECT CHARTER
EXERCISE
 PROJECT CHARTER
1. This charter has a name but it does not have a detailed description
of the project. What will Eiffel Construction do for 90 days?
2. The goal of this project is to build a house in 90 days, but what will
it happen if the 90 days are in winter time? Wont the temperatures
affect the project?
3. Are there any restrictions? Suppositions?
4. Do the couple have the money? Will they require a loan? Who will
lend the money? Will the lender become a sponsor?
5. The description of the project does not include an exact location
(the suburbs are a very large parisian area) Does this house
include a garage? A chimney? the actual description does not
specify what is or not included in the project. Which are the
deliverables? When are we supposed to get them?
 KNOWLEDGE AREAS
SCOPE MANAGEMENT
It includes the processes required to ensure that the
project includes all the work required, and only the work
required, to complete the project successfully.
We need:
1.Collect Requirements
LIST THE
STAKEHOLDERS

HOW DO I COLLECT DETERMINE WHO

REQUIREMENTS, CAN PROVIDE THE
INFORMATION

DETERMINE WHICH
METHOD I AM
GOING TO USE TO
OBTAIN IT
SCOPE: REQUIREMENTS
INTERVIEWS

FOCUS
CREATIVITY/ GROUPS
DECISION
MAKING
AND
TECHNIQUE WORK
SHOPS

METHODS TO
COLLECT
REQUIREMENTS

OBSERVATION PROTOTYPES

SURVEYS
QUESTIONNAIRES
 SCOPE: MATRIX
SCOPE MANAGEMENT
2. Create requirement Matrix, traceability matrix (whenever needed)

Example:
 Scope Definition
WHAT DOES THE SOW CONTAIN:
The statement of work should contain everything that was
determined at the charter, everything that will be included in our
project, the things that wont be part of the project, as well as all
the deliverables, execution dates (planed) in a realistic timeline,
the budget, the detected risks, the constrains, the WBS, the
dictionary (if necessary), project acceptance criteria

Exercise: Let us create the SCOPE for the project of one of the
teams
Let us use the following charter template and add the additional information
Scope: SOW
Scope: SOW
 Scope: SOW
What is this SOW lacks?

1. The WBS
2. The Dictionary
3. The planned timeline
4. The project acceptance criteria
5. The change management plan
 WBS
To be able to plan correctly and the SCOPE and the
TIME and the BUDGET, the WBS is an amazing tool.
Read the following article

http://www.dummies.com/careers/project-
management/pmp-certification/techniques-for-creating-a-
wbs-you-should-know-for-the-pmp-certification-exam/
 WBS

Name 5 important things that are very

important in creating a correct WBS
 WBS
1. Because the WBS is deliverable-oriented, it
comprises nouns, not verbs

Deliverable Verb Comment

Playground Install Install
equipment playground implies action.
equipment On the WBS,
you want only
the
deliverable.

Curriculum Plan Where you

plan curriculum place the
terms changes
the deliverable
from a noun
to a verb.
 WBS
2. You might not be able to define all the deliverables in the
WBS at the start of the project; If you cant determine a WBS
you might be having more than one project

3. Work package. The work defined at the lowest level of the

work breakdown structure for which cost and duration can be
estimated and managed.

4. Dont forget to put in project management. If you need a

WBS to reliably estimate cost and duration, you will
significantly underestimate if you leave out the project
management deliverables!
Tip: If you start creating a WBS, ask a colleague to read all the
activities you listed and see if they can understand what your
project is about.
 WBS
5. Life cycle of your project could be a good way to start
creating your WBS

6. You need to define if your deliverables are an object or a

program

7. The lowest activity that we decompose in a WBS is called a

work package. Normally it can be given to one person or one
team to create it (meaning no interaction with other work
packages)

8. Another way of creating Work packages is determining the

amount of work that could be done in (example) 80 hours.
Creating a Milestone at the end of it could help you
TIP: Never include extra activities
 WBS
Activity List

BUDGET
RISK
ESTIMATION
MANAGEMENT
WBS

QUALITY RH ASSIGNATION

Timeline
 Exercise

Lets analyze one of the teams WBS

 Budget Estimation
USE THE WORK PACKAGES
Analyze for each package the time and budget that this
will take. Dont do it alone unless you are completely
confident that you know exactly what is to be done, how
long it will take and how many people are necessary. Do
it with your team and/or the specialist for each
deliverable.
You will detect risk, write them down in the risk log. You
will assume things, write them down in the assumption
log.
Use one of the estimations methods (the 3 point one is
very accurate, because it includes optimistic, Expected
and Pesimistic timelines and budgets)
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