Project Management Principals Flashcards
Principal
Serves as foundational guidelines for strategy, decision making, and problem solving
Professional standards and methodologies are often based on principles
Principles for project management provide guidance for the behavior of people involved in projects
Code of Ethics and Prof Conduct
A code of ethics is related to morals
A code of ethics for a profession can be adopted by an individual or profession to establish expectations for moral conduct
4 values
- responsibility
- respect
-fairness
-honesty
12 principles
- Be deligent, respectful, and caring steward
- Create a collaborative project team environment
- Effectivey engage with stakeholders
- Focus on value
- Recognize evaluate and respond to system interactions
- Demonstrate leadership behaviors
- Tailor based on context
- Build quality into processes and deliverables
- Navigate complexity
- Optimize risk responses
- Embrace adaptability and resiliency
- Enable change to achieve the envisioned future state
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Stewardship
The act of taking care or managing something for example property, an organization, money, or valuable objects.
Act sensibly to carry out actions with integrity, care, and trustworthiness while keeping compliance with internal and external guidelines
They demonstrate a broad commitment to financial, social, and environmental impacts of the projects they support
Responsibilities both within and external to the company
Includes: integrity, care, trustworthiness, and compliance
Team
Projects are done by project teams
Diverse skills knowledge and experience
Finish shared objective more effectively and efficiently than individuals working on their own
Work within org and professional cultures and guidelines often establishing their own local culture
Facilitates
- alignment with other cultures and guidelines
- individual and team learning and development and
- optimal contributions to deliver desired outcomes
Project teams will be affected by
Team agreements
Org Structures
Processes
Stakeholders
Engage stakeholders proactively and to the point needed to contribute to project success and customer satisfaction
Stakeholders impact projects, performance, and outcomes
Project teams work for other stakeholders by engaging with them
Stakeholders engagement proactive improves value delivery
They affect scope requirements, schedule, cost, project team, plans, outcomes, culture, benefits realization, risk, quality and success.
Collaborative team environment
- transparent on roles and responsibilities can improve team cultures
- authority - having the right within a given context to make decisions establish or improve procedures apply resources expend funds or give approvals
- accountability - condition of being answerable for an outcomes. not shared
responsibility - obligated to fulfill something
bring together different perspectives, ethical codes, and other guidelines
promotes free exchange of information and individual knowledge
Value
- Continuously evaluate and adjust project alignment to objectives and benefits and value
- Value is the ultimate indicator of project success
- Can be realized throughout the project at the end of the project or after the project is complete
- Quantitative or qualitative
- Outcomes allows project teams to support benefits that lead to value creation
- Evaluate progress and adapt to maximize the expected value