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Principles of this seminar:

-Short theoretical input in PM methods

-Application/Transfer
-One example together
-Application on each specific thesis

Presentation + discussion

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Everyone runs his projects: tidy up the apartment, wash the car…

Apply those characteristics to your thesis…

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Project management means to accept an overview of work.

-Communication
-Planning
-Documentation

But it is necessary to
-Prevent conflicts
-To stay on your path
-Come to an end within 3 years
-Not to risk a burn out
-…

As little as possible – as much as necessary..

Spend as little work/time as possible on project management.

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Start to object to your supervisor

Realize the weaknesses/gaps in your application
Get aware that there is more work to be done than you thought about

Vale of tears:
-Struggling with problems
-You see no perspective
-Feel depressed
- sobered

Gain, restore self-confidence

Roll up your sleeves
To bear up

Head of laboratory

Clenched my teeth
Finished within the shortest time

Now take a minute to reflect where you stand right now. Stick a point …

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To go back and forth

To conclude a contract

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Project Charter:
-Document that authorizes a project
-Establishes a partnership between the performing organization and the requesting
organization (customer for external projects)
-In Research: often only approved application for research project exists

-To maintain communication

-Impact communication between the parties involved

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Differences in projects:
-House building
-Change projects
-Research projects
-Why are they different?
Let‘s have a look at different project types that can be identified.
First explain the three different dimensions.
Complicated:
-involving a lot of different processes or aspects
-Complicatedness can be reduced by analysis or plans
(Complex:
-a lot of details or small parts that make it difficult to understand or deal with)
Innovative:
-inventing or using new ideas, methods, equipment etc
-Iterative approach
Behavior:
-Dealing with people
-Communicative approach, discuss subjects
-Get a consensus
-Change projects, reorganization

Where is you focus? Where is the main emphasis in your project?

Weitere Strategien:
Vision
Mut
Vertrauen
Prozess
Andere Aufteilung
(Königswieser):
Inhalt
Sozial
Zeitlich
(Struktur)

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To meet criteria
Duration:
-the number of calendar periods it takes a WP/Project from start to completion

effort

http://www.pmhut.com/deliverable-based-project-schedules-part-4

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Dr. Karsten Hoffmann, Steinbeis-

Transferzentrum IT-Projektmanagement
Seminar „Projektmanagement Basistraining“
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Steps of phase planning:

1. List MS, define criteria
2. Find phases
3. Bring in logical order
4. Define duration over time line

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Next step is to define proper objectives.

Short definition in the charter. More detailed definition now.
For a project it is essential to define clear objectives. Everyone has to know the
objectives you have to meet.

Maybe: Sketch the hierarchy of objectives on flipchart

-Process related objectives
-Result related
-Application related – what will be the future benefit?

To check whether an objective is clearly defined, you may ask:

“How will we recognize that we have reached the objective?”

Example:
- To get results with a good significance

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Dependencies between the different classes of objectives

Changes in one class will lead to adaptations in others

Competing objectives

Budget:
-Reduce
-Increase
-Project is on budget
-Exceed the budget

Scope:
-Change
-Adding functionality
-Strip down functionality

Time:
-Reduce time
-Reduce the amount of time
-Overrun the original planning

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Cloud with defined scope.

More specific than the requirements but still a cloud.
Start to split scope into smaller, more manageable bits
and parts to reduce complexity.
Number each part.
Name it work package.

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Subdividing project deliverables and project work into smaller more manageable
components

Define WBS elements in terms of

-outcome oriented, deliverable oriented
-Action oriented
-Phase oriented

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