A project is a temporary, one-time, coordinated undertaking that has a definable goal, has

interrelated and dependent activities tasks, is finite in duration, provides a unique product,
service or information, operates under scope, quality, cost, and time constraints.
Ongoing work processes are the things that in the organization, that get repeated day in and day
out. They get repeated over and over.
Ongoing work processes included as part of process improvement, not project management
(these are things that start, they stop, they have some definitely definable goals, have a set of
tools for these, have a process to go through to get a project done, have a set of tools that we use
to do projects).
One of the things about a project is the constraints. (S, Q, C, T Targets)
Scope
Quality
Cost
Time
*upfront before a project starts + Risk and Resources (subset of the cost and time piece).
You cant change one constraint without adjusting another one.
Scope is a confusing term because there are 3 ways to talk about scope:
Product Scope (all the things that will be created or delivered)
Project Scope (all the work that will be done during the project)
Total Scope (all the things that were going to create and all the work we have to do to
make that happen)
Project is a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service, or result.
Project manager has some skill bases:
Technical Knowledge (Technical Skill)
Projects manager are not the subject matter expert on every element of the entire project.
What you have to do as far as the subject matter expertise, is have a knowledge base that
allows you to understand the language that people around this project team table are
going to be using, and understand the way that this group thinks about the process to get
form the beginning to the end of a project.
Project Management Process Skill
There are two things you must know to manage a project; some understanding of the
project and you need to know what it looks like to actually get from the beginning to the
end of a project.

Leadership Skills
You have to lead your project team from the beginning to the end of this project. The
leadership piece is a key element of successful projects.
The various roles of the PM:
Task & Human
PM Work with the tasks on the project and have to work with people on the project.
Integrator vs Technical Expert
Have the right people, draw upon that expertise, collectively all the subject matter
expertise to do the project, intgrate all of that knowledge and experience into one overall
total project.
Big Picture and Detail
PM has to look at the details to see how all these details in the project actually integrate
coordinate together to give the final, big project.
*Start the plan for the project Get finer level of detail Get to a level where we can
actually assign some work for people to go do Assignable tasks to people*
**start doing all those details putting those together integrating them together**
Politics
Refers to all of the things youre gonna have to deal with all of your stakeholders around
the project.
Projects vs Function
Pulling people typically out of a regular job that they do some where.
*Assigned to some part of the organization , work in some department get cross
functional team put together to pull from all different parts of the organization, put people
on our project teams*
Project Manager its the person assigned by the performing organization to achieve the project
objectives.
What is Project Management?
Planning
Scheduling
Managing
Coordinating
Leading
Communicating
Controlling

Project Management is the application of the knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to project
activities to meet project requirements. Project Management is accomplished through the use of
processes such as: initiating, planning, executing, controlling and closing.
Five Process Groups for completing a project:
Initiate
Initiating its the process group that deals with starting the whole project off.
2 key elements in the initiating process:
Stakeholder are individuals and organization that are actively involved in the
project or whose interests may be positively or negatively affected as a result of
the project execution or project completion. They may also exert influence over
the project and its results.
*Customer:
One of the overall list of stakeholders
Special subset of stakeholder
Individual or group that receives the deliverables of the project
Project Charter:
Agreement between all involved parties
One location for all overview information
Definition of the project
Guide for the project activities
*To start a project charter, need 2 things:
Name of the project that says this organization has decided to do this
project. Weve formal sanctioned this project and we will undertake this
project and support it.
Project managers name that says this person has been selected to manage
this project and they have been given the authority to use organizational
resources to do this project.
**Scope statement is the description of the project scope, major deliverables,
assumptions and constraints.

Plan
Put a plan together on how were actually going to do what weve decided and initiate.

Execute

Monitor and Control

Try to do is keep things on target with the progress and with the amount of spending.

Close

Knowledge Areas (PM need to know about these things)

Project Integration Management
Project Scope Management
Project Time Management
Project Cost Management
Project Quality Management
Project Human Resource Management
Project Communication Management
Project Risk Management
Project Procurement Management
Project Stakeholder Management