Project Management

controlling consumption, 162
external, 81–82
identifying needs, 14–15
leveling, 131
preliminary assessments, 70
providers as internal stake
holders, 190–91
selecting team members as,
80–82
in work breakdown structure,
118
Response, in risk management,
144, 149–51
Responsibilities
of project managers, 30–32
of team members, 82–83
in work breakdown structure,
118
Responsibility, authority versus,
32–33
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
(RAM), 114, 119–20, 220-21
Reverse scheduling, 33
Rewards, 91–92
Risk
analyzing, 16
defined, 142
describing in Project Definition
Document, 68
examples, 140–41
failure to consider, 104–5
inaction, 55
overview of, 141–43
responding to, 149–51
Risk assessment, 143
Risk management
analysis, 143–44, 147–48
identification, 143, 144–47
lack of understanding of, 104–5
as mindset, 151
overview of, 16, 143–44
quantification, 143, 147

response, 144, 149–51

Risk profiles, 154

Root causes, 237

Rough Order of Magnitude plan,

218

S

Salespersons, project managers

as, 44

Schedule estimating worksheets,

221

Scheduling

analysis of, 170–72, 174–76

control schedule creation,

128–31

critical path calculation,

131–33

estimating activity durations,

127–28

network diagrams, 122,

123–27

overview of, 15, 120–21

PERT calculations, 152–53

project timelines, 122–23

renegotiating targets, 181

reverse, 33

size of items on, 103

terminology, 121–22

Scheduling software, 136, 171

Scope

defining, 98

managing, 14–15, 114

reducing to solve problems,

181

in work breakdown structure,

118

Selection processes, 59–65

Self-evaluation, 89

Self-improvement, 45–46

Self-management, 42–43

Sequencing, 15

Series relationships, 122, 124

Silo mentality, 22

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