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Project & Its Type

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Projecty It has predefined(committed) time and quality.

y It contains set of activities.

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TYPES

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Software project managementy Concerned with activities involved in ensuring

that software is delivered on time and on

schedule and in accordance with therequirements of the organisations developingand procuring the software.

y Project management is needed because software

development is always subject to budget and scheduleconstraints that are set by the organisation developingthe software.

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Research Projects

The project produces knowledge. The knowledge may be formallyrepresented as models, patterns or patents. Or the knowledge may beembedded in a working process or artefact.

Examples:y Business modelling

y Developing a model of the economy

y Developing a new species of wheat

y Developing novel approaches to project management.

y Military intelligence/ codebreaking.

y The analysis, testing, QA or evaluation portions of a larger project.

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Construction Projects

The project produces an artefact. The value generated by the project isembedded in the artefact. The artefact may be a complex system withhuman and mechanical components.

Examples:y Warship

y Jubilee line extension

y Millennium dome

y Customer call centre

y Method guidebook

y IT system

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Re-engineering Projects

The project produces a desired change in some system or process.

Examples:

y Taking sterling into the Euro

y Renumbering the telephone system

y Implementing project management practices into a large organization.

y Designing and installing an Intranet.

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Procurement Projects

The project produces a business relationship contractually based with aselected supplier for a defined product or service based on a fixedspecification and/or a defined specification process

Examples:y Outsourcing a specific construction or research project

y Outsourcing a complete business function (such as IT).

y Imposing new rules and measures on a regulated industry.

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Business Implementation Projects

The project produces an operationally effective process. The valuegenerated by the project is embedded in the process.

Examples:

y Developing a new business process to repackage and exploit existingassets.

y Installing e-commerce

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some projects are difficult to classify :

National symbolic programmes:

y Putting a man on the moon by the end of the decade.

y Mitterands Grandes Projects.

y New Labour

Large medical programmes:

y Creating an artificial heart.

y Mass inoculation programmes.

Other hybrid or interdisciplinary projectsy Pilot projects

y Moving offices

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Thank You

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