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Project management skills are greatly in demand in the information technology community. Project management is a natural extension of the previous chapter’s introduction to system development. This chapter provides a process-centric survey of key project management tools and techniques as they apply to systems analysis and design. You will know that you understand the basics of project management when you can:



Define the terms project and project management and differentiate between project and process management

Describe the causes of failed information systems and technology projects

Describe the basic competencies required of project managers

Differentiate between PERT and Gantt charts as project management tools.

Describe the role of project management software as it relates to project management tools.

Describe eight activities in project management

Define joint project planning and its role in project management.

Define scope and write a statement of work to document scope

Use a work breakdown structure to decompose a project into tasks

Estimate tasks' durations and specify intertask dependencies on a PERT chart.

Assign resources to a project and produce a project schedule with a Gantt chart

Assign people to tasks and direct the team effort.

Use critical path analysis to adjust schedule and resource allocations in response to schedule and budget deviations

Manage user expectations of a project and adjust project scope







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