BUS 1040 PROJECT MANAGEMENT - Professor Fred Pentney Supplement P of

Subject: Flow charting the project cycles and development

Definition stage:

	Ask What, Why When How Where Who and Why?

	Create higher level task or activity lists – find relationships. Draws WBS’s Show first work packages.

Definition final detail: Planning stage begins:

Take Hi level plan and

WBS and decompose down to Work package levels

Risk Mgt.

I.D.

Probability

Impact

Strategy

Monitor

Control

Statement of Work:

1) Purpose

2) Scope

3) Deliverables/Description

4) Cost and Schedule

5) Goals/Objectives

6) Stakeholders

7) Chain of command

Assign Work

Tasks

Summary items

to Stakeholders.

Remember bottom up est.

WBS

Summary tasks

Work packages

Labour, resources, materials, costs, budgets?

		Schedule Time Stakeholders to Plan. E.g. GANTT chart. Calculate floats.	Communication Matrix – maintain as project develops
Continue to assign Work packages to Responsibility Matrix as they are developed.	Estimate the work packages $ Time Materials Resources

Estimates: Top down (management ) and bottom up (Team Members)

Get approval for final estimates. Establish budgets

Obtain and assign resources. .

End of Planning Stage

This flowchart provides an overview of the Definition and Planning stages. There may be many variations on what has been presented above. Also various industries have specialized approaches to develop the projects and these may be in addition to the above representation.

Now we move to the Execution Stage.

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