International Project Management

Résumé du document

C'est un devoir qui concerne la matière International project management, qui explique toutes les parties prenantes d'un ou plusieurs projets, les questions portent sur l'organisation d'un projet de A à Z, avec les critical paths.

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[...] - The duration of a task is the span the task covers in calendar days. - Suppose it takes only 2 hours to order materials and 10 days to receive them, the duration of the task is 10 days. - In the same way, it may take only a couple of minutes to sign an approval, but it may take 5 days if the decision maker is traveling, busy or just needs to think about the decision Define Early Start Date, Early Finish Date, Late Start Date and Late Finish Date. [...]

[...] The Statement of Work is a detailed document approved by stakeholders including the purpose, scope, deliverables, cost and schedule estimates, objectives, stakeholders and organizational chart, responsibility matrix and communication plan What is scope? Is it the same as Project Purpose? What is the danger if scope is not clear? Project scope is all of the work required to meet project objectives. Scope creep is one of the most common project dangers. It means adding work, little by little, until original cost and schedule estimates are impossible. [...]

[...] If there really is that level of safety margin, then it is unlikely that a contingency fund is required. The risk is that always programming such a large safety margin causes the team to lose credibility What is the Work Breakdown Structure? How is it different from Project Scope? The Work Breakdown Structure identifies all the tasks in a project and links them in chronological order. It turns one large, unique, perhaps mystifying piece of work - the project - into many small, manageable tasks. [...]

[...] Determining the WBS is a step prior to developing cost and scheduling detail. It is important at the WBS step to have the summary tasks, tasks, sub-task in the correct order and hierarchy. The cost and scheduling will certainly feedback to the WBS and force changes to it. The process becomes iterative even if the WBS is first What is a summary task? A summary task has a group of sub-tasks below it. It will not be completed until all the sub-tasks are completed How detailed should tasks be? [...]

[...] The sponsor would have title or position in the organization to provide authority and to be able to help the project team along the way A major company project has listed four project sponsors. Is this a good idea? No. It is a project destined for management conflict. The sponsor is one person who is ultimately responsible for the project. He or she could report to the three 4. You are the project manager for a major training project in the marketing department. Human Resources has hired you to provide the training. Who is your customer? [...]