By Wilmer Arellano Summer 2013 SOW / Open Workbench By Wilmer Arellano Summer 2013

Project management Product development involves: many people many different tasks. Successful product development projects result in: Efficient use of time, Monetary savings high-quality; Saving in other resources. Project management is the activity of planning and coordinating resources and tasks to achieve the project goals.

Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) The WBS is the hierarchical list of the project's phases, tasks and milestones Phase: A group of related tasks that completes a major step in a project. Task: An activity that has a beginning and an end. Project plans are made up of tasks. Milestone: A reference point marking a major event in a project and used to monitor the project's progress. Scope: The combination of all project goals and tasks, and the work required to accomplish them. The scope translates into the timeline and budget. Budget: The estimated cost of a project. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA011361531033.aspx#Step%201

Phase: A group of related tasks that completes a major step in a project. Task: An activity that has a beginning and an end. The end is marked by a deliverable

Project Timeline/ Sequential Tasks Tasks are sequential when they are dependent on the output of another task. These because the dependencies impose a sequential order in which the tasks must be completed. We do not necessarily mean that the later task cannot be started before the earlier one has been completed

Project Timeline/ Parallel task Two tasks are parallel when they are both dependent on the same task but are independent of each other.

Milestones Examples: Prototype Implementation. Testing. Documentation. Demonstration. Each Milestone should be explained with a sentence or two

PERT Charts / The Critical Path The dependencies among the tasks in a PERT chart, some of which may be arranged sequentially and some of which may be arranged in parallel, lead to the concept of a critical path. The critical path is the longest chain of dependent events.

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