Welcome to UELRoyal Docks Business School

SMM232 IHRM &Project Management

Dr Sean DoddMSc Project Management

Programme LeaderRoom BS4.17

Email s.dodd@uel.ac.uk

Agenda

• Introduction • Background & APM • Assessment• Additional Activities• PRINCE2

Introduction

• Arrive on time each week• Swipe in immediately• Mobile ’phones off• Leave all rooms clean

• Contribute equally to your groups• Check UELPlus/email often• Start assessments early• Submit work early• Extenuations, pt/ft

Introduction

• Notes available on UELPlus• Importance of Punctuality• Student attendance is Mandatory • Direct correlation between attendance and

results• Phones off, listen & remove rubbish

Module Delivery

• Lectures

• Student presentations

Assessment

• Group Report & Presentation• Detailed Module Handbooks • Plagiarism policy• Study Support• Skill Zone

Assessment

Group Report & Presentation• 5000 words• Any area of Olympic Games• Due Monday 10 December• Turnitin not required• Harvard Referencing

• See UELPlus for more information

Aims of the Module

To enhance your: • Theoretical knowledge• Analytical & writing skills• Qualifications• Life-long learning

Skills for Life

• Analytical & critical thinking• Writing & research• Communication• Management • Reflective practice

Background & APM

• Project management notorious for failure

• Office of Government Commerce

• Association for Project Management

• PRINCE2

Regular Project Failure

• Criminal Records Bureau database

costs doubled to £400m in 2004• Home Office IT for Asylum Seekers

cancelled after spending £77m in 2001• Inland Revenue IT overpaid rebates

by £2b in 2004

Olympic Games 2012 Fire

Common Causes of Project Failure

• Long project durations • Estimation methods inaccurate• Continuous change• Poor Documentation: untimely, unavailable,

inconsistent, incomplete, ambiguous, incorrect• Fixed Point Theorem• Stakeholder mismanagement

Useful PM’s Kit Bag

• Concepts– Lifecycles, roles, requirements, definitions,

governance, business case

• Tools & Techniques– PBS, WBS, CPA, Gantt charts, MS Project

• Project Success– Causes of failure, quality, change control

• PRINCE2– Foundation & Practitioner exams

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Location of MSProject

PRINCE2 Delivery

Foundation Training & Exam• Lectures start Wednesday 17 October• 6-9pm in EB2.43• Collect manuals from my office• Exam 14 November, 75 questionsPractitioner – starts in Semester B• Training & Exam• 3 hrs, 9 questions

For next week

Group member list (5): name, ID & title• Choose any area related to the Games• One group per area only• See list on UELPlus for ideas• E.g. Budget, Main Stadium, Acquatics Centre,

Stakeholder Management, Legacy, Lessons Learned, Rio 2016, etc.

Reading

• Gray, C. & Larson, E. (2008) Project management – the managerial process. McGraw-Hill

Useful Journals

• International Journal of Project Management• Project Management Journal• Project Manager Today • Project • PM Network

Additional Activities

• Project Challenge: 17-18 October, Olympia– www.projchallenge.com

• APM Conference: TBC, London– www.APM.org.uk

Thank you & any Questions?

Dr Sean Dodd

Programme Leader

MSc Project Management

Room BS4.17

Email s.dodd@uel.ac.uk

Tel 0208 223 2307