Northern Border University College of Engineering
Industrial Engineering Dept.
Project Management
Dr. Yehya Mesalam 2018/2019
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Your Instructor
Dr. Yehya Mesalam
Department of Industrial Engineering
College of Engineering
Northern Border university
Mobile: 0545592418
Email : ymesalam@yahoo.com
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Your Instructor
Lecture: Monday: 4:00: - 540
Wednesday: 12:00: - 1:40
Lecture Hall: T049
Office hours
Sunday: 8:00 – 10:00
Wednesday: 10:00- 12:00
or
by appointment
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Text Books
1. Project Management: A Managerial Approach, Jack R.
Meredith - Samuel J. Mantel Jr. - Scott M. Shafer,
2016, John Wiley and Sons.
2. Gray, C and Larson, E. (2018). Project Management:
The Managerial Process, 7 e., McGraw-hill
International Edition.
3. Harold Kerzner, (2013). Project Management: A
Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and
Controlling, 11th Edition, Wiley.
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Learning Objectives
• Increasingly, the demands of clients on all types of
projects are becoming more and more complex –
whether it is technological, governmental,
construction, banking, oil, etc. The demands show
themselves in the requirement to strictly control costs,
accomplish on time, improving quality and reducing
risk.
• The objective of this course is to understand the
concept, principles, methods and techniques of
Project Management and apply Project Management
best practice techniques to all kind of projects.
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Specific Learning Objectives
After the successful completion of this course, students should be
able to:
1. Understand the concept of Project Management
2. Understand and apply all types of project organizations
3. Plan and schedule any types of projects using several modern
planning techniques
4. Monitoring project time
5. Understand and apply several methods of cost estimating and
when to use each method
6. Understand and apply project cost control techniques
7. Understand and apply risk management on projects
8. Evaluate the progress and performance of projects using
modern techniques
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Assessment and Grading System
Assessment and grades will be determined
based on the following distributions:
• Two Midterm Exam 40
• Quizzes 10
• Reports 10
• Final exam 40
• Total 100
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Introduction
• Projects tend to be large
– The Channel Tunnel, or Chunnel
– Denver International Airport
– Panama Canal expansion project
– Three Gorges Dam, China
• Projects are getting larger over time
– Flying: balloons planes jets rockets reusable
rockets
• The more we can do, the more we try to do
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Three Project Objectives
• Time
• Cost
• Scope
• Time, cost, and performance are all related
to a project
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Direct Project Goals: Scope, Cost, time
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The Triple Constraint
• Every project is constrained in different ways by
its
– Scope goals: What is the project trying to
accomplish?
– Time goals: How long should it take to complete?
– Cost goals: What should it cost?
• It is the project manager’s duty to balance these
three often competing goals
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The Triple Constraint of Project
Management
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What is a Project?
• Project Defined
– A complex, non routine, one-time effort limited by
time, budget, resources, and performance
specifications designed to meet customer needs.
• Major Characteristics of a Project
– Has an established objective.
– Has a defined life span with a beginning and an end.
– Requires across-the-organizational participation.
– Involves doing something never been done before.
– Has specific time, cost, and performance requirements.
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What is a Project?
• A project is “a temporary endeavor undertaken
to accomplish a unique product or service”
(PMBOK® Guide 2000, p. 4)
• Attributes of projects
– unique purpose
– temporary
– require resources, often from various areas
– should have a primary sponsor and/or customer
– involve uncertainty
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What is a Project?
Temporary:
• Definite beginning and end
• End is reached when the project objectives have been achieved
• Market window
• Ad hoc team
Unique:
• Something new
• Size does not matter: New airliner
• Requires progressive elaboration
– Progressive
• Proceeding in steps-Continuing steadily in increments
– Elaboration
• Worked out with care and detail - Developed thoroughly
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Some Types of Projects
• Developing or acquiring a new or
modified information system
• Constructing a Building
• Running a campaign for political office
• Implementing a new business
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Project Life Cycle
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Project Life Cycle
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Project Life Cycle
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Another Possible Project Life Cycle
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What is Project Management?
Project management is “the application of knowledge, skills,
tools, and techniques to project activities in order to meet
project requirements” (PMI*, Project Management Body of
Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide), 2000, p. 6)
The art of organising, leading, reporting and completing a
project through people .
The project management team is responsible for determining
what ideas and practices are appropriate for any given
project
*The Project Management Institute (PMI) is an international professional
society. Their web site is www.pmi.org.
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Advantages of Using Formal Project
Management
• Better control of financial, physical, and human
resources
• Improved customer relations
• Shorter development times
• Lower costs
• Higher quality and increased reliability
• Higher profit margins
• Improved productivity
• Better internal coordination
• Higher worker morale
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Benefits of an Integrative Approach
to Project Management
• Integration (or centralization) of project management
provides senior management with:
– An overview of all project management activities
– A big picture of how organizational resources are used
– A risk assessment of their portfolio of projects
– A rough metric of the firm’s improvement in managing
projects relative to others in the industry
– Linkages of senior management with actual project
execution management
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9 Project Management Knowledge Areas
• Knowledge areas describe the key competencies
that project managers must develop
– 4 core knowledge areas lead to specific project
objectives (scope, time, cost, and quality)
– 4 facilitating knowledge areas are the means through
which the project objectives are achieved (human
resources, communication, risk, and procurement
management)
– 1 knowledge area (project integration management)
affects and is affected by all of the other knowledge
areas
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Project Management Framework
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Project Management Tools and Techniques
• Project management tools and techniques assist
project managers and their teams in various aspects of
project management
• Some specific ones include
– Project Charter, scope statement, and WBS (work
breakdown structure) (scope)
– Gantt charts, network diagrams, critical path analysis,
critical chain scheduling (time)
– Cost estimates and earned value management (cost)
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How Project Management Relates to
Other Disciplines
• Much of the knowledge needed to manage
projects is unique to the discipline of project
management
• Project mangers must also have knowledge
and experience in
– general management
– the application area of the project
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Project Stakeholders
• Stakeholders are the people involved in or
affected by project activities
• Stakeholders include
– the project sponsor and project team
– support staff
– customers
– users
– suppliers
– opponents to the project
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Risk
• Uncertainty about our ability to meet project
goals due to various factors in the project life
cycle
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Risk During at the Start of the Life Cycle
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Risk During the Life Cycle
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The Structure of this Text
• Follows the project life cycle
• Some topics stand-alone
• Other topics incorporated throughout
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Part I: Project Initiation
• Projects in Contemporary Organizations
• Strategic Management and Project Selection
• The Project Manager
• Managing Conflict and the Art of Negotiation
• The Project in the Organizational Structure
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Part II: Project Planning
• Project Activity and Risk Planning
• Budgeting: Estimating Costs and Risks
• Scheduling
• Resource Allocation
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Part III: Project Execution
• Monitoring and Information Systems
• Project Control
• Project Auditing
• Project Termination
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