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The key takeaways are that project initiation involves developing the project charter, scope statement, and management plan to define the project. It also involves analyzing the scope, requirements, risks and preparing a work breakdown structure.

The main components of a project charter are the requirements, business needs, project purpose, assigned project manager, milestone schedule, stakeholder influences, assumptions, constraints, business case, and summary budget.

The main elements included in a project scope statement are the project objectives, requirements, acceptance criteria, boundaries, deliverables, constraints, organization, assumptions, schedule, work breakdown structure, cost estimate, and configuration management requirements.

Project Initiation

Project Initiation
 Types of projects
 Development
 Maintenance and Enhancement
 Production Support
 Testing

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Project Initiation
 There is no single way to manage project
 Project Management is application of
 Knowledge
 Skills
 Processes

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Project Initiation Activities
 Analyze and understand the scope
 Document specific criteria of the
requirements
 Understand how to take the identified
information and transform it into a Project
Management Plan
 Prepare the work breakdown structure
 Analyze project risks

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Project Initiation
 It includes the processes required to ensure
that the various elements of the project are
properly coordinated

 It involves making tradeoffs among


competing objectives and alternatives to meet
or exceed stakeholder needs and expectations

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It involves

 Develop project charter

 Develop project scope statement

 Develop project management plan

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Develop Project Charter
 Project charter is a document that formally
authorizes the project
 The project charter provides the project
manager with the authority to apply
organizational resources to project activities

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Contents of Project Charter
 Requirements that satisfy customer, sponsor and
other stakeholders’ needs, wants and expectations
 Business needs, high level project description
 Project purpose or justification
 Assigned project manager and authority level
 Summary milestone schedule
 Stakeholder influences
 Assumptions, constraints
 Business case justifying the project
 Summary budget

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Inputs to Project Charter
 Contract
 Project Statement of Work
 Business Needs
 Product scope description
 Strategic plan

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Tools and Techniques
 Project Selection Methods

 Project Management Methodology

 Project Management Information System

 Expert Judgment

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Project Scope Statement
 It is the definition of the project
 What needs to be accomplished in the project
 It addresses and documents the characteristics
and boundaries of the project and its
associated products and services as well as
the methods of acceptance and scope control

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Project Scope Statement
 Project and product objectives
 Product or service requirements and characteristics
 Product acceptance criteria
 Project boundaries
 Project requirements and deliverables
 Project constraints
 Initial project organization
 Project assumptions
 Initial defined tools
 Schedule milestones
 Initial WBS (Work Breakdown Structure)
 Cost estimate
 Project Configuration Management Requirements

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Inputs to Project Scope Statement
 Project charter
 Project statement of work
 Enterprise environmental factors
 Organizational process assets

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Project Management Plan
 It includes the actions necessary to define,
integrate and coordinate all subsidiary plans
into a project management plan

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Contents of Project Management Plan
 Project scope management plan
 Schedule management plan
 Cost management plan
 Quality management plan
 Process improvement plan
 Staffing management plan
 Communication management plan
 Risk management plan
 Procurement management plan

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Inputs to Project Management Plan
 Project scope statement
 Project management processes
 Enterprise environmental factors
 Organizational process assets

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Assignment
 Prepare the following for your project
 Project Management Plan

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