Title: Class Outline 3
Course: KVCC BUS208 > Section: Class Outlines

1.      The Project Manager

a.      Vs Functional Mangers

b.      What a manager does

a.      Assist in the creation of something new

b.      Manages a temporary group of diverse people

c.      Exist as the interface with the public and other parties within the company

d.      Responsible for the performance of the project

c.      The good side

a.      Working with new things within the company so everyday is new

b.      Tangible benefits that are usually achieved quickly when compared to other areas

c.      The stress is high but so are the demands and money for these careers

2.      Being part of a project team

a.      Projects are not always full time commitments so a person has to manage their functional job with their membership on the team

b.      Teams might me pre-established and very structured

c.      The team might be assembling for the first time with little initial structure

3.      Current Drivers of Project Management

a.      Compression of the product life cycle

b.      Knowledge explosion

c.      Triple Bottom Line (Planet, People, Profit)

d.      Corporate Downsizing

e.      Increased Customer Focus

f.       Small Projects Represent Big Problems

4.      Project Governance

a.      An overview of all project management activities

b.      A big picture of how organizational resource are being used

c.      An assessment of the risk their portfolio of projects represents

d.      A rough metric for measuring the improvement of managing projects relative to other in the industry

e.      Linkages of senior management with actual project execution management

5.      Alignment of projects with organizational strategy

6.      A socio-technical approach

a.      Technical - the science

b.      Sociocultural - the art

7.      The rest of the text book8.      A day in the life example

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