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Project
Management

Dr. Ron Lembke

• Never done one exactly like this

• Many related activities

Why are projects hard?

• Resources-
– People, materials
• Planning
– What needs to be done?

IT Projects

• Half finish late and over budget
• Nearly a third are abandoned before completion
– The Standish Group, in Infoworld

• Establishing objectives
• Determining available resources• Sequencing activities
• Identifying precedence relationships• Determining activity times & costs• Estimating material & worker
requirements
• Determining critical activities

• PERT by U.S. Navy for Polaris missile

• Consider precedence relationships & interdependencies

• On schedule? Within budget?

• Probability of completing by ...?

PERT & CPM Steps

• Identify activities
• Determine sequence
• Create network
• Determine activity times
• Find critical path
• Earliest & latest start times • Earliest & latest finish times • Slack

		Receive diploma
1	2	3
1 month	4? Years	1 day

	Enroll		Attend class, study, etc.	3		4
				3		4

AoA Nodes have meaning

	2	3	4

Applicant			Aluma Alumnus

Precedence Relationships – Scenario 1a

• Big-picture sequence easy:		D
– Demolition		D

	After:	W	D
– Drywall, tape & texture
– Slate flooring

• Gantt chart

• Critical Path Method (CPM)

Activity	Time Period
Activity	J J	F F	M M	A A	M M	J J	J J
Design Build Test