PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Project Management

Project Management

PART A

Project managers are the point people responsible for coordinating activities of project team members to achieve project objectives. Whereas project team members tend to have narrowly focused skills and expertise, and are primarily concerned with day-to-day functions, Project Managers focus equal attention on near- and long-term activities.

As a project manager, my responsibilities in this project includes:

•Defining the scope of projects;

•Developing project schedules;

•Estimating project costs;

•Gaining stakeholders' approvals;

•Measuring project progress;

•Controlling project changes;

•Closing out projects.

Stakeholder identification and management is a key skill for all project managers, program managers and executives (collectively called project manager for the purpose of this paper). Stakeholders are individuals who represent specific interest groups served by the outcomes and performance of a project or program.

Identify Stakeholder

Inputs

Tools

Outputs

Project charter

Procurement documents

Enterprise process assets

Organizational process assets

Stakeholder analysis

Export judgment

Stakeholder register

Stakeholder management strategy

Stakeholders for this project includes e:

Community groups

Industry or business associations

Environmental groups

Local councils

Government departments

Communication is - in my opinion - the number one skill that a project manager needs to have. Going into any engagement who the project manager will be communicating with is a question mark because the project itself can be more far reaching than originally imagined.

Now those finely honed communication skills are going to come in handy. In order to determine the specific goals of the project, there is a need to meet with each of the key stakeholders and document their ideas of this project goals. It's also a good idea at this point to gain an understanding of their needs and concerns regarding this project. Perhaps the existing business processes, and the systems that support them, are so old that little documentation exists for them.

Specifically, project management in construction encompasses a set of objectives which may be accomplished by implementing a series of operations subject to resource constraints. There are potential conflicts between the stated objectives with regard to scope, cost, time and quality, and the constraints imposed on human material and financial resources(Wysocki, 2011). These conflicts should be resolved at the onset of a project by making the necessary tradeoffs or creating new alternatives(Martin, 2010).

Main Requirements of the Project

To advertise and recruit required professionals.

To analyze and document the specifications for the required functionality.

To acquire the needed hardware and software as part of IT infrastructure facilities.

To design, implement, test and operate the entire system.

Next step is defining human resources in terms of category, seniority and hourly cost:

Functional expert(s) - Knows the business process

Technical support - Technical product knowledge

Workflow Business Analyst - Workflow tools expert

System Administrator- Maintain workflow environment

Business Analyst - assist in doing a business process analysis

Task Of Each Employee In This Project

Engineer: Create wind energy project plans, including project scope, goals, tasks, resources, schedules, costs, contingencies, or other project information. Green Task Statement

Engineer: Prepare or assist in the preparation of applications for environmental, building, or other required permits. Green Task Statement

Analysts: Coordinate or direct development, energy assessment, engineering, or construction activities to ensure that wind project needs and objectives are ...