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FIFTH EDITION
CHAPTER 12
IT PROJECT MANAGEMENT
E. Wainright Martin Carol V. Brown Daniel W. DeHayes
Jeffrey A. Hoffer William C. Perkins
IT PROJECT MANAGEMENT
IT Project management requires knowledge of
system development methodologies:
SDLC
Prototyping
RAD
Purchasing life cycle
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IT PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Project Management Institute (PMI)
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IT PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Most projects share common characteristics:
1.
2.
3.
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IT PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Project:
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Project:
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IT PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT
IT Portfolio set of IT project initiatives currently in
progress, as well as requests for IT projects that have not
yet been funded
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IT PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT
Project categories to help with prioritization:
Absolute must
issues
Highly Desired/Business-Critical
returns
Wanted
Nice to Have
Valuable, but with longer time periods for ROI (more than 12 months)
Projects with good returns, but with lower potential business value
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PROJECT INITIATION
Project charter
Scope statement
Feasibility analyses
Economic
Operational
Technical
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Economic feasibility
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Project Manager Characteristics
IS manager
Business manager
Both
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Project Manager Characteristics
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Project Sponsor and Champion Roles
Sponsor:
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Project Sponsor and Champion Roles
Champion a business manager who:
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PROJECT PLANNING
Three major components:
Schedule
Budget
Staff (project team)
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Scheduling
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Scheduling
Timeboxing organizational practice in which
a system module is to be delivered to user
within a set time limit, such as 6 months
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Budgeting
Two traditional approaches to estimating costs:
Bottom-up
Cost elements are estimated for lowest level of work tasks and then
aggregated to give total project cost estimate
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Budgeting
2.
3.
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Staffing
Project staffing involves:
1.
Identifying IT specialist
2.
3.
4.
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Staffing
Counterproductive Characteristics
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PROJECT PLANNING
Planning Documents
Two typical planning documents:
Project Plan
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Planning Documents
Two typical planning charts:
Gantt
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Planning Documents
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Planning Documents
(Reprinted from Valacich, George, and Hoffer, Essentials of Systems Analysis & Design, Prentice Hall, 2001)
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Planning Documents
Gantt
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(Reprinted from Valacich, George, and Hoffer, Essentials of Systems Analysis & Design, 1st Edition,
Copyright 2001. Reprinted by permission of Pearson Education, Inc. Upper Saddle River, NJ)
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(Roman, 1986)
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PM Goal:
Causes of Risk:
Human error
Project scope changes
Unanticipated technology changes
Internal politics
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Change management:
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PROJECT CLOSING
IT project deliverables completed
Formal user acceptance obtained or failed project terminated
Common questions for team members:
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