- PRINCE2 Project Management Method
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Key pieces of information
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What the project is?
- Terminal 3 Pier
- Location
- Cost: 112.5 million
- Duration: 19 months
- Project Manager
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Project Justification
- Airbus A360 needs more space than older piers can offer
- Operational necessarity???
- The papers looks at project control for this project
- The need to break down the project into smaller chunks (WBS)
- The need for planning, monitoring and control
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What is the project scope
- Title
- Who is the project Manager?
- How long (time)?
- What resources do we need?
- What resources do we have already?
- How much money (cost)?
- Who needs to what what by when?
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What are the requirements?
- Build a pier to cope with the Airbus A360 plane
- Technical specifications
- Freedom of action
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What was the business case?
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Why do it?
- Retain Hub airport status
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Increase customer numbers
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Customer spend in the retail units
- Heathrow charge more to retail units etc
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Increase flexibility to deal with larger planes
- A360
- Dreamliner
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What are the benefits of doing this project?
- What about cost/benefit analysis?
- Revenue!!!
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How was the project planned?
- Do I need to make Assumptions?
- WBS (work breakdown structure)
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PERT Chart
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Gives the project manager more information in order to manage the project
- EST/LST/EFT/LFT/SLACK
- Better at complex projects
- Risk logs
- Change logs
- Quality logs
- CBS
- They must have used a project management method
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How do you think the project was monitored?
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Reporting
- Regular reports
- Exception reports
- Special interest reports
- Meetings
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Reaching milestones
- Product milestone
- Project milestone
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Quality
- product
- project
- Costs/progress against plan
- EVA Charts
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How do you think the project was controlled?
- Regular evaluations?
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Control techniques
- Go/no go control
- post control
- Cybernetic control
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The company wide introduction of Project Controls, which must include a Change management
- Prevent scope creep
- Ensure the delivery of desired product/service
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What was the lessons learnt?
- Provides the mechanism(s) and structure for effective delivery of projects
- • Integration T2B & B U - Rolling-up and analysing project data.
- • Provides effective links between project and financial data.
- • Improved transparency/clarity and decision-making.
- • Improved reporting on performance - EVA.
- • Improved forecasting, cash-flow information and monitoring of income.
- • Improved Resource Management ∴ Finance Management ∴
- • Reduction of the duplication of effort