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Assign the right project management method to its definition.

Is a

structured project management method and practitioner certification program.

This method emphasizes dividing projects into manageable and controllable stages.

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Principles

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Themes

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Processes

After the evidence of high level of web project failure, in the 1990s 17 US expert meet and share their methods and develop this method.

opposition to the waterfall method, the client needs are set in the center of

the project. The requirements and solution evolved through the collaborative

effort.

Strength:

- Flexibility.

- Adaptability to client changes

- Improved visibility for customer

- Improved project cost control

Weakness

- Weak documentation

- High availability of the customer

- Poor global budget vision

- Flexibility has a cost…

Is a

set of standard terminology and guidelines (a body of knowledge) for project

management.

Driven

by Project Management Institute (PMI)

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Process group

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Knowledge areas

Strength:

- Industry recognized

Weakness

- Series of guidelines

- Decision to be made with experience

managers

- Require large overhead

Classical

method broadly used in project management. In this method, each steps must be completed to start the next one.

Strength:

- Everything must be planned

- Well known, broadly used

- “Accurate” planning

- Require great communication between team

members

Weakness

- Few room for change and unplaned

events

- Few interaction with customer

a method of analyzing the tasks involved in completing a given project,

especially the time needed to complete each task, and to identify the minimum

time needed to complete the total project.

Strength:

- Well known

- Activity analysis

- Time control

- Critical path identification

- Parallel and sequential

Weakness

- Time focused

- Detailed => resources intensive

Many

projects do not have clear requirements and have to evolve as to progress.

This method is not frozen and each project is treated differently as the

previous one.

Iterative

approach of :

- Requirements

- Cycles

- Success

criteria

Strength:

- Flexibility

- Improve added value

Weakness

- Poor visibility

- Poor schedule control

- Poor global budget vision

- High availability of the customer

This method is a framework for managing work with an emphasis on software development.

It is

designed for teams of three to nine developers who break their work into

actions that can be completed within timeboxed iterations, called sprints

(typically two-weeks) and track progress and re-plan in 15-minute stand-up

meetings, called daily scrums. Variation

of agile method.

Strength:

- Flexibility.

- Adaptability to client changes

- Improved visibility for customer

- Improved project cost control

Weakness

- Weak documentation

- High availability of the customer

- Poor global budget vision

- Flexibility has a cost…

a business philosophy, not just a tool set or method for improvement. This

business philosophy was derived from Toyota experiences and in particular from

its Toyota Production System (TPS). The focus is on reducing waste in all

business processes. The result is reduction of cost and lead-time as well as an

increase in quality.

Strength:

- Optimized process & ressources

- Strong

customer relationship

Weakness

- Do not apply to all projects

- Missed deliveries reducing margin of

errors and reducing flexibility

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