Project Management Plan

Loading...

En provenance du cours de Rice University

Engineering Project Management: Initiating and Planning

256 notes

Rice University

Engineering Project Management: Initiating and Planning

256 notes

Cours 1 sur 3 dans Specialization Engineering Project Management

The goal of the course is to give you the tools to initiate a project plan, manage both stakeholders and relationships, organize their team, develop a project charter, and build a business case for a project. By the end of this course you will be able to: - Perform a project assessment using information from previous projects and lessons learned - Identify key deliverables based on business requirements while managing customer expectations - Perform a stakeholder analysis and create a management plan - Analyze and develop a project organization - Create a project charter - Explain the business case for a project and calculate Net Present Value - Inform stakeholders of the charter and ensure all parties know the deliverables and expectations As part of the course, you will prepare organization charts, create a Stakeholder Register, and write a Project Charter based on an engineering project in a provided Case Study. The Stakeholder Register will outline the key parties to the project, their concerns and how you will manage their expectations. Your Project Charter will provide the key guidance your team needs to understand the scope, requirements and purpose for the project. All of this will position you for initiating and planning your first project and/or understanding how you can maximize your contributions on your next project team. Rice Center for Engineering Leadership is a Registered Education Provider through the Project Management Institute (PMI)®. Learners who complete this course on the Certificate track will be awarded 12 hours of Profession Development Units. These are recognized by PMI for continuing education or can be applied toward the 35 hours of education required for the Project Management Professional (PMP)® certification. PMI and PMP are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.

À partir de la leçon

Project Integration Management

Introduction and Objectives3:21

Developing a Project Charter8:59

The Project Charter Itself6:33

Project Management Plan5:44

Manage and Control Work7:24

Rencontrer les enseignants

Tom Phalen
Lecturer in Engineering Leadership, PMP
Rice Center for Engineering Leadership
Kazimir Karwowski
Executive Director, PMP
Rice Center for Engineering Leadership

Welcome back, we've gotten out project charter approved, and

we have a project ready to start.

The next step is to start developing the project plan.

The project management plan is the document that describes how the project

will be executed, monitored, and controlled.

It contains the elements shown here.

Each of these plans is typically developed independently by different groups on

the project.

Each function develops their own plan.

On smaller projects, they may be combined into a single document and

done by fewer people.

However, each plant should have its own section as a minimum.

Over the course of this specialization, we have or

will address each of these elements.

For now it's enough to note that as the project manager,

it's your role to setup a high level parameter to each plan.

And then coordinate and

integrate them into a consistent overall project management plan.

Additional elements of the project management plan you may want to consider

include the executive summary.

The executive summary gives the reader a overview of the key elements of each plan

in the scope of the project.

An execution approach, the execution approach document is a good place for

the project manager to lay out his or her strategy for the project.

This is where you can outline how you want to approach each of the plan elements and

the key parts of your management plan.

One trick I use in integrating the overall project management plan is

to prepare a draft a of these two sections in advance of the rest of the plan.

This allows you as a budget manager to convey your thoughts on

how the project should be executed to the rest of your team in written form.

It gives them a template to use in preparing the remainder of the more

detailed plans.

This is particularly more relevant on larger projects where the project

management plan can get very large.

Finally, you may want to include a change management plan.

On some projects, the change management plan is separate from the other plans.

If you expect change management to be a big issue,

this is usually a good approach.

Change management can also be included as part of the scope management plan or

the cost management plan, or both.

Setting up the project management plan is a key element in setting up, planning,

directing, and controlling the project.

The project management plan is one of the baseline elements to define the project

and how it will be executed.

We talked earlier about the iron triangle of scope,

schedule and cost that define the project parameters to such an extent that if

one element changes, then one or more of the other element must also change.

In actual execution,

there are other elements that also impact the project to a similar extent.

These include the project charter and or the contract if it is this.

The project management plan that we just discussed and

the project risk register that will be developed.

I like to refer to the total of these six documents as project baseline document.

Why are these added elements so important?

The project charter and contract define the project scope and the requirements.

Any change in one of these documents is essentially a change in the scope, and

should be treated as such.

Once you develop your project management plan, your project schedule and

cost estimate are based on this plan.

Any change to the plan should be treated as a potential change to the cost and

schedule, perhaps even the scope.

Finally, the risk register is key because it defines the risk in mitigation

plans with the project.

If the risk profile changes significantly,

then we can expect corresponding changes in scope, schedule or cost.

So why add these extra elements to our watch list

if there are resulting changes to the scope, schedule and cost?

Can't we just stick with the iron triangle?

We watch these extra elements closely, because we know that changes

to these elements will eventually result in changes elsewhere.

A good project manager will use these types of changes as an early warning

system, and take steps to mitigate their impact before the changes to the scope,

schedule, and cost appear.

A good project manager assists his team in achieving the project deliverables and

objectives.

He does this by directing the work and

following the baseline as set out in the six elements discussed earlier.

He or she will manage the project stakeholders and

communicate to all members.

They will adjust their plans to meet new challenges and

obtain the necessary resources to meet those plans.

Good project managers train their staff and work with them to enhance their

performance individually and also as a team.

Planning and directing a project is challenging work,

it is the key to driving the work to a successful conclusion.

The next step in the subject in the next lesson is controlling and

monitoring the work.

In this step, we will look at the project manager's responsibilities in this area

and also review the concept of change management.

Explorer notre catalogue

Rejoignez-nous gratuitement et obtenez des recommendations, des mises à jour et des offres personnalisées.

Coursera propose un accès universel à la meilleure formation au monde, en partenariat avec des universités et des organisations du plus haut niveau, pour proposer des cours en ligne.

© 2018 Coursera Inc. Tous droits réservés.

Télécharger dans l'App Store

Disponible sur Google Play