Project Management Facilitating Functions

Project HR Management

Project Communication Management

Project Risk Management

  • Plan risk management:

–Info: category, role, probability, impact, document / risk register

–Plans: mitigation, contingency, fallback => contingency reserve

  • Identify risks: description (event, cause, consequence), category, owner

–Risk sources: assumptions, dependencies, project objectives, requirements, design, implementation, testability, HR, resource, customer, outside, etc

–Techniques: brainstorming, Delphi, interviewing, SWOT

  • Perform qualitative risk analysis: possibility, impact, priority

–Probability / Impact matrix

–Top-ten & watch list

  • Perform quantitative risk analysis: possibility + impact => priority
  • Plan risk responses:

–Strategies: avoidance, acceptance, transference, mitigation / contingency

–Residual risks, secondary risks

  • Monitor and control risks: work-around

Project Procurement Management

  • Plan procurement management

–Make-or-buy analysis

–Contract types: fixed price, T&M, ODC

–SOW: statement of work

–RFP, RFQ (Request for Proposal / Quote)

  • Conduct procurements

–Deciding whom to ask to do the work (preferred, potential, advertising)

–Sending appropriate documentation to potential sellers

–Obtaining proposals or bids

–Selecting a seller

–Awarding a contract

  • Control procurements
  • Close procurements

Project Stakeholder Management

Project Stakeholder

  • Identifying Stakeholders:

–Stakeholder register

Project Stakeholders Register

–Stakeholder analysis

Project Stakeholders Analysis

–Stakeholder management strategy

Project Stakeholder Management Strategy

  • Plan stakeholder management
  • Manage stakeholder engagement

–Expectation Management Matrix

Project Stakeholder Expectation Matrix

  • Control stakeholder engagement