Influence on Project Management

In Previous article we have covered key components useful in Project Monitoring and controlling about Work Performance data, Work Performance Information and Work Performance Reports, please click here to view the previous article.

In this article we shall cover about factors that influence project management these are Enterprise Environmental Factors(EEF), Organization Process Assets(OPA) and Organizational Systems.

Organization Process Asset (OPA): is the plans, processes, policies, procedures, and knowledge bases specific to and is used by the performing organization. This is an Asset, that will always help organization positively.

OPA is further breaks down into main two

• Process, Policies e.g Quality policies and procedures, templates, guidelines, and tailoring.
• Knowledge base e.g. Lessons learned.

Enterprise environmental factor (EEF) : this refers to conditions, not under the control of the project team that influence or direct the project. These are the Factors which can affect the organization in positively or negatively.

EEF further divided into two categories

• Internal e.g. Organizational Culture, Infra, Geo distribution,
• External e.g. Market condition, Legal restrictions, financial considerations.

Organizational System: it determines power, competence, interests and political capabilities of people. this is further broken down into 3 categories.

• Management Elements
• Governance Framework and
• Organizational Structure types (this is defined based on Project Mangers Authority).

Hope this information helps!

In next blogs, shall continue with Project Management framework about PMI’s Process Framework, this is critical section to understand and clear PMP.

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Project Management Flow, Data and Information

In Previous article, we covered Project Development Life Cycle.Types of Project Development Life Cycle In this article we shall cover about Project Management flow, in this we shall cover about

• Work Performance Data
• Work Performance Information and
• Work Performance Reports.

Through Monitoring and Controlling part of project management, one can make out if the project is on track. For this we need status and progress reports of the project, these are called Work Performance Reports. Stakeholders are always interested to understand in Work Performance Reports which provides information about project health.

Examples of Work Performance Reports include status reports, progress reports, trends report, earned value report, variance report, etc.

Format of Work Performance Report may be Burn Down charts, Bar Charts, histogram etc.

Work performance data is the raw data identified during execution activities.
It is current status of various project parameters, like how much work is completed, how much time has elapsed,
and the cost so far.

Work performance information is the information that we derive with the help of work performance data; e.g. planned status, cost prediction etc.

So, main use of Work Performance Data and Information is to prepare Work Performance report, which can be communicated to stakeholders (Project team is an example of stakeholder).

Hope this information helps!

In next blogs, shall continue with Project Management framework (try to focus on Influence on Project Managment).

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Types of Project Development Life Cycle

Project Life cycle is used to gain better control over a large project and a clear focus on the deliverable.

This is done through the splitting up of the project into several phases,
each of which can be considered a mini-project in itself which involve all five process groups  (Initiation, Planning, Execution, Monitoring and Controlling, Closing).

The hand-off from one phase to another is done at a stage or Phase-gate or Milestone or Kill-point, which is described in my previous article. please go through key components of project here.

Below is the comparison of Different Project Life cycles, I have tried to put under chart so it can be easily visualized and difference can be observed clearly.

• Example of Predictive Life cycle is Waterfall model.
• Example of Iterative Life cycle is a year or longer duration project will have three(a few) months iterations. And, each iteration will execute Planning, Analysis, Design, Code, testing phases, and deliver the result at the end of the iteration. Delivered iteration may not be useful as product, but can be shown as progress towards making of a final product.
• Example of Incremental life cycle is deliverable produced through series of iterations, eg. 10 things to develop to complete a project, we do it one by one and each stage is useful as product.
• Example of Adaptive life cycle is mix of Iterative and Incremental. The deliverable is usable like incremental, but are open for feedback and refinements based on those feedback the refinements can be done either in iterations or we can follow a kanban or lean based approach.
• Examples of Hybrid (as mentioned it is combination of Predictive+Adaptive) hence examples are based on how Predictive an Adaptive is used.
  • Agile first then Predictive
  • Agile and predictive in parallel
  • Large Predictive smaller Agile
  • Large Agile small predictive.

Hope this information helps!

In next blogs, will continue with Project Management framework (try to focus on Project Flow key terms).

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Key components of Project

In Previous article we covered about Project Life Cycle and Product Life Cycle. In this and next article we shall go through Key components of Project and Development life cycle.Project Phases: a collections of logically related activities that produces one or more deliverable. In above image Start, Prepare and Organize, Execute and End is the project phases.

Phase Gate: Review to be done at each Project Phases, whether to continue or not to next phase. Above image each project phase is connected with Phase gate.

Process Group: Grouping of Project Management input, tools, techniques and outputs.

Knowledge Area: it is a Project Management area based on its knowledge requirement.

Next we shall cover in details about Development life cycle.

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