Project Management and Leadership

• The document provides an introduction to project management and leadership.
• Dr. Bouasabah Mohammed is the professor for this course.

Course Plan

• Module 1: Introduction to project management
• Module 2: Project planning
• Module 3: Practical work with Microsoft Project

Introduction to Project Management

• Project management involves planning, organizing, and managing tasks and resources to achieve a specific goal.
• Project management ensures the delivery of a quality good and/or service:
  • At the right time
  • At the best possible cost
  • To the right person

Project Definition

• A project is a set of actions undertaken to meet a defined need within a fixed timeframe.
• Project mobilization encompasses human and material resources during completion.
• Projects include a budget consideration.
• Deliverables are the expected results of a project.

ISO 10006 Definition of Project

• A project is a unique process consisting of coordinated and controlled activities with start and end dates.
• Undertaken to achieve an objective conforming to specific requirements, including constraints of time, cost, and resources.

Distinguishing Projects

• A project is distinct from a set of operations, even though it involves a collection of activities or actions.
• Example: A car manufacturer producing 2000 vehicles per day performs operations, but designing a "formula 1" car is a project.

Key Characteristics of a Project

• Projects possess a unique character.
• A project delivers a product or service is unique
• Duration limited
• All projects have an explicit beginning and end.
• Constraints
• Projects are subject to constraints of, time, quality, and cost.
• All objectives are situated in a triangle of cost, time and quality
• Irreversible
• Action capabilities are strong at the beginning, but they decrease
• Objectives
• Projects have clearly defined objectives that correspond to a specific need
• SMART objectives allow you to specify
• Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound
• Innovation is a project
• The final is new
• Uncertainty
• Include environment exterior
• Has a character unit

Project Stakeholders

• Master Builder (Project Owner or Client)
  • This is the ordering party for whom the work is carried out
  • Example: A regional council for building a secondary school
  • Includes defining the needs and requirements of the project
• Prime Contractor (or Producer)
  • Is the organization or person responsible for carrying out the project
  • Example: A company in charge of coordinating various trades, led by a project leader
• The project team
  • Includes people involved in the realization, they are responsible for sections of work or tasks
• Hierarchical leaders
  • Include members that dedicate to a project for the duration of it, however they depend on their hierarchical leader
• Partners
  • Include suppliers or subcontractors and are useful in the project
• Steering committee (Copil)
  • Supervising and guiding a project is within a committee's purpose.

Types of Projects

• Engineering Project (Ouvrage)
  • Is a unique, non-recurring project directed at a single client
  • Examples: bridges, tunnels, highways, libraries and museums
• Product Project
  • Is carried out in several copies or series. This type of project is short lived
  • Examples: planes, automobiles, computers, medicines and perfumes
• Organizational Projects
  • Is not associated with material supply but with a temporary process.
  • This encompasses changeover to the euro, the organisation of Olympics, a company project, and a cultural event

Project Life Cycle Phases

• Pre Project
• Planning
• Achievement
• Termination

The Pre-Project Phase (Initiation)

• This initial phase is crucial for laying the solid foundations of the project.
• It involves a clear definition of the objectives and scope of the project
• Identification of a need
  • Understand why the project is necessary and what advantages it can offer
• Feasibility analysis
  • evaluate the feasibility of the project
• Market Study
  • Is to identify the constraints of the market in order to satisfy parties
• Stakeholder Analysis
  • Identify all the stakeholder concerned by the project
• Definition of objectives
  • Defining the objective with SMART target
• Formation on the project team
  • Identify and gather members to conduct in the project
• Initial project plan
  • Creation of the plan with expected results

Project Development Example: Mobile Carpooling Application

• Phase of initiation
• The Need
  • Conduct a thorough research to discover the needs of carpooling software
• Analysis of Project Feasibility
  • The budget has to be established for developpement
• Market Analysis
  • Is to analyse competitive apps
• Parties Prenantes
  • Understand their needs
• Definition of SMART objectives
  • Establish
• Forming the Project Team
  • Identifying the members
• Initial project Plan
  • Analyzing the users needs

Plan for Gestion of Risks

• Identifying potential risks
• Set in place a mechanism to survey the progress

Project Planning Phase

• To define the project entirely in concepts and detail by:
• Defining detailed content, focused on goals
• Establishing a plan using WBS, PERT, GANTT
• Budgeting
• Estimating the resources
• Risks

Project Implementation Phase

• The implementation is the result and completion of the previous phases because the product is already planned and being processed
• Continuous communication
• Need thoughtful management to be as planned
• Communication, teams coordinating, managing resources, monitoring, quality assurance

Closure Phase (Termination)

• Delivery and transfer of results to stakeholders to maintain the deliverables
• Evaluation of results to analyse the project
• Finance closing

Termination Phase

• Recognize the work of team workers
• Report listing achievements and critical data
• Dissolving project employees to other roles
• To legally close the project and archived documents

Project planning

• Breaking down into several stages
• Assign documents
• Model organization
• Estimate the time

Organization chart for Tasks OT (Work Breakdown Structure: WBS)

• Recommended by PMI to break events in parts
• The principal key is to simply reduce the project to simply manageable tasks
• Easy organization by attribute a budget

Diagram PERT

• Aim to provide property to a time
• It decoupes tasks and present depending on a graphs on dependence
• Minimize delay and reduce impact on late delay

Key Definitions

• Tasks
  • An action for the advancement toward its end
• Timing Properties
  • The amount of time
  • Its presentation from PERT shown through an arrow
• Step
  • Indicates the beginning and the end for the purpose of clarification
• Steps presentation from PERT consist of a round shape of the timeline that is cut in the timeline zone
• The earliest
  • The best delay during the beginning is required for consideration
• The latest
  • The greatest date which consideration for the best deal is not modified
• Network
  • A chart consist of chart tasks and project with each task presenting one another with one step

Graphic Chart Regulation

• Always have a beginning and ending line
• Is always at least has a beginning line
• Can not begin if the past task has not finished

Calculate Date for Latest

• The date will remain the same
• The time delay occurs between step

How to calculate Marches

• Benefit late data during it
• This late is in the March

Determination of critical road

• Show how to observe
• Eliminate the delays
• Show the tasks has a null space