Lecture: "No project is ana island" - Ingrid Mignon

Question 1

What contextual aspects are important for a project?

Answer 1

• Industry (IT?,Automobile?, etc…)
• Organisation (Functional org?,Matrix org? etc)
• Market (Nedd of RnD? etc)
• Product type
• Stakeholders

Question 2

What contextual aspects are important for a project?

Answer 2

• Industry (IT?,Automobile?, etc…)
• Organisation (Functional org?,Matrix org? etc)
• Market (Nedd of RnD? etc)
• Product type
• Stakeholders

Question 3

How does the organisation affect the project?

Answer 3

• Resources
• Competition between projects
• Hierarchy
• Leadership
• Culture
• Conflicts

Question 4

How does the organisation affect the project?

Answer 4

• Resources
• Competition between projects
• Hierarchy (Matrix, functional, project based etc.)
• Leadership
• Culture
• Conflicts

Question 5

How does the market affect the project?

Answer 5

• What is needed from the company?
• What do clients want? How much are they ready to pay?
• How fast are competitors delivering new products on the market?

Question 6

How does the product type affect the project?

Answer 6

• Complexity
• Newness
• Incremental or radical
• Stand alone or system-integrated
• Consumer product, capital goods, event, etc
• What do we know about the final prouct

Question 7

Name som examples of stakeholders

Answer 7

Core - Primary - Secondary

Examples;
Competitors
Employees
clients
etc...

Question 8

What is the impact of the contextual aspects on project management?

Answer 8

• Affect the project lifecycle
• Affect the project model (stage-gate, agile, etc)
• Affect the planning of the project; more or less uncertainties, longer or chorter project, more or less recourses, etc.
  etc. ..

Question 9

Different project models

Answer 9

Squential model: Waterfall
Parallel: Concurrent engineering
Dynamic:

Question 10

Describe the waterfall model and when to use it

Answer 10

When?

• Simple and short projects
• The tech is understood
• Low level uncertainties
• Stable environment
• Resources and expertise are available

Advantages and Drawbacks
\+ Easy to plan and monitor
- Rather rigid
- Very hard for sponsors to get an idea of the final product
- Does not fit for complex projects

Question 11

Describe the Concurrent enginering model and when to use it

Answer 11

When?

• When communication within is smooth
• When customers can be involved in development
• For R&D projects
• When time to market need to be limited
• Environments with high competition

Advantages and Drawbacks
\+ short time
\+ Flexibilitie
Increased productivity
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Question 12

Describe Rolling wave planning (Agile)

Answer 12

Plan one phase (Sprint) at a time in detail.

When?

• In uncertain environments
• In R&D, high-tech, inventions projects
• When there is no time pressure (for the whole project)
• When resources are available and flexible
• In goal-seeking projects or in projects where the scope is likely to change
• For longer projects

Advantages and Drawbacks
\+ Needless planning is avoided
\+ Flexebliity
\+ Tolerates high uncertainty
\+ Iterative planning os possible
- Time and resources can easily get our of control