U N I V E R S I T Y O F B A L A M A N D
FACULTY OF ENGINEERING
DEPARTEMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Project Management
Presented To: Dr. Najib Gerges
Prepared By: Ziad Kabbara
August 20, 2007
Project Management
Introduction
Project Management is the discipline of organizing and managing resources (e.g. people) in such a way that the project is completed within defined scope, quality, time and cost constraints. A project is a temporary and one-time endeavor undertaken to create a unique product or service, which brings about beneficial change or added value. This property of being a temporary and one-time undertaking contrasts with processes, or operations, which are permanent or semi-permanent ongoing functional work to create the same product or service over and over again. The management of these two systems is often very different and requires varying technical skills and philosophy, hence requiring the development of project management.
The first challenge of project management is to ensure that a project is delivered within defined constraints. The second, more ambitious challenge is the optimized allocation and integration of inputs needed to meet pre-defined objectives. A project is a carefully defined set of activities that use resources (money, people, materials, energy, space, provisions, communication, quality, risk, etc.) to meet the pre-defined objectives.
Project Objective
The aim of the project is to resolve the Midterm Exam of Fall 2007 with the extra questions of the final exam using Primavera:
From the Midterm Exam Fall 2007, the total duration, the completion of the table (normal duration, total material, total cost, ES, EF, LS, LF, TF and FF), providing a schedule for the project, determining the number of men on a given day, determining the total cost of the project, determining the expected cost on a given day and showing how a project should be affected by delaying certain activities are calculated.
From the extra questions from the final exam, the project update, the project crashing, the resource leveling and the resource allocation are calculated using Primavera.