Fö 1 Flashcards
1
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Definition of a business case?
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- Temporary
- Unique
- Focus on delivering
- Emerge
—> we learn on the way - Uncertain
- Integration
—> affected by all other projects - Change
—> people don’t like to change themselves, only on others
2
Q
Livscykel i ett projekt?
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1. 2. 3. Execution —> put most of the time here 4.
3
Q
What different dependencies are there?
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- Pooled dependency
—> Common goal
—> Same rules and standards - Sequential dependency
—> - Reciprocal dependency
- Matrix and power
4
Q
Different kind of projects?
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- First timers
—> high on variety but low on volume
—> high risk & uncertainty
—> a project when the company never has done anything similar - As… But
—> pretty high on variety but also with higher volume
—> AS the job we did last time BUT with following differences
3. Painted by numbers —> average in variety and higher on volume —> clear instructions —> process and outcome are well known —> lower risk and uncertainty —> e.g. franchise (McDonalds/IKEA)
5
Q
4D model?
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- Define it
- Design it
- Do it
- Develop it
6
Q
Classification of processes?
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- Volume
2. Variety
7
Q
Classification of processes?
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- Volume
2. Variety
8
Q
Challenges within project management?
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- Ready ,fire, aim
—> - It’s all in my head
—> Lack of documentation - We don’t have time
- Common sense,
—> we shouldn’t have to do that
—> not communicating everything
9
Q
external factors?
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- Political
- Economical
—> robust now/ robust tomorrow? - Social
- Environmental
10
Q
Difference between project management and general management?
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General Management:
- Managing status que
- Authority defined by management structure
- Consistent set of tasks
- Limited responsibility to their own function
- works in permanent organizational structures
- tasks described as maintainance
- main task in optimisation
- success determined by achievement of interim targets
- limited set of variables
Project management 1. Responsible for overseeing change 2. Lines of authority is fuzzy 3. Ever-changing set of tasks 4.
11
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AZISPMM Structure?
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- Justify
- Initiate
- Plan
- Execute
- Close
12
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Three different definitions of a project?
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- A project is temporary endeavor undertaken to create a product or service
- A management environment that is created for the purpose of delivering one or more business products according to a specified business case
- A temporary organisation that is needed to produce a unique and predefined outcome or result at a given time using predetermined resources
13
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8 basic definitions of a project?
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- unique
- temporary
- focused
- emergence
- uncertainty
- integration
- social structure
- Change
14
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Challenges within project management?
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- Ready fire aim
- It’s all in my head
- We do things in a nanosecond environment, we don’t have time for this stuff
- we have a procedure for that
- it’s all just common sense?
- I’ve got the badge, I’m the manager
- we have done this lots of times before, it never worked
- It won’t work here