creating the simplecalc xcode project

... suffering because of the problems and asked them to get together for a discussion She put together a presentation that clearly stated the nature of the problems and their impact on the businesses She ... the worse The first intriguing factor about the break-out discussions was what sins they would pick Would they pick the same ones or all different ones? Well, there was a small mixture Among the ... ask others to do the same • Get explicit commitments from people to support the goals of the program— then they are more likely to follow through • Take action, first to articulate the needs, then...

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2013, 00:15

... formal groups The titles tacked onto the project office concept illus-trate the variety of approaches The Titles A project office is not always called a project office—the names span from the straightforward ... and yet others at a unit level Regardless of who does the work, the PMO assumes responsibilities for success on projects and manages the project managers Chief Project Officer The chief project ... within each project, with the project office standing in the background as the champion for boosting excellence in project management Organizations such as IBM call this approach the “Project Management...

Ngày tải lên: 20/10/2013, 19:15

... just alike—even if they are part of the same cate-gory The functions described separately may fuse together into different forms For instance, the staff functions of the PSO and the PMCOE might ... This means analyzing the dozens of variables that affect project office design and the subsequent performance of the PO Fig-ure 4.3 lists the possible variables After the project office design ... ex-isting vocabulary The success of the final design is measured by the degree to which the PO shines a powerful spotlight on project management in the organization and en-sures that projects perform...

Ngày tải lên: 20/10/2013, 19:15

... its own way The charge-to-overhead approach would constitute a service tax assessed to all projects, whether the project man-agers wanted the service or not Under the second premise, the PMO would ... for the service from their research budgets The value-added philosophy assumed that once the value of the support was demonstrated, every project manager would want to take advantage of the project ... related to the context, the organization and people, the support functions, and the project execution responsibility Once the right concept is hatched, then involve stakeholders in the movement...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 18:15

... dev-astating They needed to have their own act together first before marketing them-selves and the project office concept to others If the answer to the first question was yes and the second question ... employing their best communications and selling skills (core to a good project leader, by the way) to get the organization’s attention They tried these ideas to get the word out: Trang 7They got their ... pres-ence (the foundation for deploying project offices), it’s time to move If they pull the trigger too early and try to create a project office before the critical mass is there, they run the risk...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 18:15

... this In the case where the project office is in the line organization and does not have project leaders within the office, but distributed out in their functional areas, the project leaders themselves ... the distribution of the framework for implementation of a new project office, the Project Office Implementation Kit The 3M case illustrates the one-step-at-a-time approach to implementing the project ... more project offices are formed, the PMSIG developed a sub-group called the POF (Project Office Forum), made up of the heads of many of the smaller (and larger) project offices throughout the company...

Ngày tải lên: 29/10/2013, 01:15

... managers on these topics first, then roll out the training across the organization The project office may also want to offer, or broker, consulting to help people implement the steps learned in the training ... model for others The effect is more control over the environment and more order in it To engage others, recognize the problem of entropy—the degradation of mat-ter and energy in the universe ... to projects, using lan-guage that all project participants understand so they all know what to expect The HP Project Management Initiative taught a generic model in a three-day course titled “Project...

Ngày tải lên: 29/10/2013, 01:15

... au-thenticity and integrity Processes are the methods and tools to get the job done FIGURE 6.4 WORKING TOGETHER: THE PESSIMIST’S VIEW. The movie The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is about another ... Blondie (the Good) learns the name of the grave under which the gold is buried, Angel (the Bad) rounds up everyone in search of the gold, and Tuco (the Ugly) knows the name of the cemetery where the ... and the business case The middle checkpoint evaluates the technology fit and the ability to execute the project From this point, projects are expected to go all the way through even though there...

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2013, 00:15

... media, the project managers used the criteria from the spreadsheet in Figure 6.7 to self-score their projects against the criteria The project office consolidated all projects into a master list Scores ... express their own dreams and concerns, which could then be reconciled with the general manager’s The group chartered a subteam to suggest categories and criteria for project selection The project ... business projects Apply the same arithmetic to the percentage desired for each category to determine cut lines Figure 6.9 shows these calculations The true test came when the group assessed the prioritized...

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2013, 00:15

... invested in the projects, with over 60 percent going toward improving the social welfare of the population and the remainder aimed at infrastructure projects The key strategies for the program ... that the project management approach “con-tributed substantially towards meeting the goals of the Letter of Credit program within the three-year timeline established.” The “every project has a project ... reality of projects programmed for the 2000–2003 period The old func-tional criteria for budgeting gave way to a project-based approach more consistent with the nature of the projects Projects...

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2013, 00:15

... a physical location for the office at the beginning of the project and hung up a poster with the words “Project Office” above the phys-ical space designated for the office The advantages were that ... more effective The PMO team would be there to help project managers and project teams, not thwart their efforts to do the right thing The first key suc-cess factor is to support project managers ... comments about their virtual world, arguing most projects are in remote sites The PMO, as the link between project managers and the rest of the organization, greatly facilitates the reuse of libraries,...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 10:15

... consultant and the project manager of many tasks so they can use their time more effectively by working with customers and defining the scope of their projects In terms of project delivery, the project ... the task is left to the individual projects The project manager is responsible for the overall project delivery process Project office employees are not expected to know the project technical content ... issues of the PMO project on a monthly basis And publishing project status on the intranet allowed the PMO to spread the word company-wide The participants in the PMO accepted ownership in the operation...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 10:15

... activities: the financial system, the status provider, the client status, the history and trends, and the project manager Each of the items mentioned is consolidated for project report genera-tion The ... phases during the project life cycle according to the PMBOK We will demonstrate to our customers that all parts of the organization support the project manager along the complete project life ... different project office implementa-tions for each location depending on the needs and project requirements, the project culture maturity level, the resources and type of projects, and the business...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 10:15

... multiple-project program as routine work—emphasizing individual projects, not the overall program Despite the fact that there were sixty major NATO projects to be completed in the program, formal project ... Italy at the same time.” The urgency of the situation required the program manager, for the first time, to outline what he was looking for in project managers for both the short and long term The outline ... agents, but they have considerable input to the process The program manager’s vote is the tiebreaker (and he usu-ally leans in the direction of the customer) They meet weekly, and their deliber-ations...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 10:15

... part of the crash, I Trang 7want to be part of the takeoff.” The same applies to project management If I’m going to be part of the project, I’d like to be part of the project start Could the runway ... without the PMO? The runway restoration project was programmed in 1998, long before the PMO stood up Team members did a credible job of planning the necessary steps to execute the project within the ... forgotten about the time, because it was already lost, or the cost, because we were already overrun Our success on those projects is to avoid project failure On the other hand, projects that we...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 10:15

... experiences for project leaders and teams in the areas of project management and teamwork. To help teams and project leaders get the learning that they need to be successful in their projects, the 3M ... responsible for the ‘heart, head, and belly’ of a project: the vision, the strategy, the day-to-day management, and the development of people. He or she goes to bed with the project each night, ... nine project manage- ment competencies the company has identified as important and five project management levels in a career path from project manager up to VP of projects. These are the project...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 10:15

... overseeing the con-tinuous improvement of project management across the organization As the organization matures further and the project management process becomes the normal operating condition, the ... presidential level with other senior execu-tives in the organization Other members of the project office are project managers, project mentors, project planners, project controllers, and methodology experts, ... changes into the culture of the business; they are not shouting from the rooftops that they are running programs with great systems to drive improvement.” Project Management in Action The following...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 10:15

... the system of project stakeholders who influence the project, and the rest of the organization Trang 5who constitute the project’s environment must support the project manager for projects to be ... stands on the right side and the woman always on the left They pick up the object on the count of three, walk it over to the edge of the property and on the count of three again throw it into the brush ... them out alone An individual certified project man-ager is not enough to make a successful project It takes an organization The project manager is only part of the equation The project team, the...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 10:15

... and risk plan The deadline specified in the project should be realistic in the eyes of the team The project manager cannot do this alone Without the support of the project team and other major stakeholders, ... process It can specify the role of project sponsor as a formal part of the project management process and de-fine the sponsor’s proper planning role in the project process Another important Trang ... build the legitimacy of these practices in the organization For Learning, the PMO can train upper managers about the project manage-ment process, their roles and responsibilities, and how they...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 10:15

... train project managers and team members how to input data from their project reviews and how to access data at the beginning of their projects to learn from other projects’ experience For Means, the ... operations to achieve the project outcome Information is collected re-garding the success of the project outcome, then it is compared to the business case as part of the lessons learned by the organization ... use the adopted project management process The process can be further supported by training project managers in a curriculum that meets the needs of the type, size, and Trang 4com-plexity of projects...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 10:15