Lecture 2 Prestudy
Lecture 2 Prestudy
Lecture 2 Prestudy
• Goal setting
• Scope
• Tools, tools and more tools
• Construction
• Difficulties with crossing the boundaries
• The iron triangle
Often a requirement for larger projects
Purpose: Decrease uncertainty!
By:
• Mapping and analysing the assignment
• Assessing business benefits and risks
• Mapping internal and external stakeholders
• Providing information required for a go/no-go decision
• Remember the definition of a project
• Lundin, Söderholm (1995), A Theory of the
Temporary Organization
Needs
Problem Description of
analysis / Solution
analysis and the current
development proposal
impact goals situation
trends
• Sub goals
• Quality or scope or what is constraining what
really?
Q
T R
• Identify work packages (WP)
• For each WP identify
• Who is responsible
• How to account for the results
• Sum it up in a WBS
• Go through with stakeholders and iterate
Core
Primary
Secondary
Core stakeholders Influence Influenced by
• People within the project and people Project owner Task and budget Results of the project
who make decisions about the project Reviews results and
Steering group Time for meetings
governs project
• Individuals, groups and organisations Project directives,
who are strongly affected by the project Project manager Achievement of objective deliveries from project
and therefore want influence group
Project group Performs activities Work load
• Individuals, groups and organisations Primary stakeholders
who have relatively small interest in the
project and therefore probably wont Suppliers Equipment and resources Work load, revenue
affect it that much Financiers Capital ROI
May be included in
Employees Disrupted operations
reference groups
Secondary
stakeholders
Can create negative Project may threaten local
Interest groups
image of project interests
Authorities Legislation and regulation
• You tend to attend many meetings in a project
• Project group meetings
• Daily Scrum
• Meetings with the steering comittee
• Etc.
• Preferably the direct ones
• Depending on why you are doing the project
• What is the project going to deliver?
• When?
• To what cost?
• Who is to do it?
• How is it done?
• Interviews conducted
• Analysis done
• Etc.
• You know the purpose/impact goal
• Recorded video on Studium