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Telecom Project Management

Naokhaiz Afaqui

[email protected]

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Why is Project Management

important? When things are going well, something will go

wrong. When things just cant get worse, they

will. When things appear to be going better, you

have overlooked something.

Project Management ensures that potential risksand contingency plans are in place to achieve

the desired objectives

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What Is a Project?

A project is a temporary endeavor undertaken toaccomplish a unique purpose

Success of a project is (typically) measured by

three dimensions

quality/performance (meeting specifications)

timeliness ( Speed)

within Cost budget

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What is project management?

The application of knowledge, skills, tools,

and techniques to project activities in order

to meet or exceed stakeholder needs andexpectations from a project. [PMI, Project

Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide), 2000]

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PM schools of thoughts

IFIs Models

PMBOK 3rd Edition (PMP)

Prince2 Maturity Model (P2MM)

Project Management Maturity Model (PMMM)

Portfolio, Programme and Project Management

Maturity Model (P3M3)

Organizational Project Management MaturityModel (OPM3)

Capability Maturity Model (CMM)

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PM Processes

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Overlap of Process Groups in a

Phase*

*A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK

Guide) 2000 Edition

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Project was identified like this

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After plan it looked like this

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As designed by the designers

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What was actually approved?

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What was constructed?

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What the users actually wanted?

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Project Management Package

T

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Work Breakdown Structure: an analytical tool

for dealing with project components in an

orderly way.Gantt Chart: a schedule presented in bar

chart

Milestone Chart: Summary of major critical

activities required for completing the project

PM Tools

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Critical Path Networking: system for

calculating critical activities and for

providing graphic output needed to

schedule and control the project

PM Tools

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Sample WBS for Intranet

Project in Chart Form

Concept

Desi nUser Interf ce

Desi n er er et p

Develop erver

pport Infr str ct re

eb ite

Desi n

Develop es

and Links

Develop

Functionalit

Content

Mi ration/Integration

Testing

eb ite

Development

Roll Out upport

Intranet roject

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20 4 106 8Month

Activity

Design house and

obtain financing

Lay foundation

Order and receive

materials

Build house

Select paint

Select carpet

Finish work

A Gantt Chart

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Milestones

5/13 5/20 5/27 6/3 6/10 6/17 6/24 7/1 7/8 7/15 7/22 7/296/5 2/8

5/6/2002

Project

Start

5/24/2002

Interim esign

eview

6/25/2002

Final esign

eview

6/18/2002OperatorManual

eview

7/2/2002OperatorManual

Approval

7/18/2002

Test ediness

eview

8/2/2002

Project

Completion

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Critical Path Method

(CPM)

Design

Build

Mechanical

Components

Build

Electronics

Write

Operator

Manual

IntegrateComponents

Validate

Operator

Manual

Test

System

Critical Path

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Top 10 PM Software Products

Name of Product Produced by: %use Microsoft Project Microsoft Corp. 48.4%

Primavera Project Planner Primavera Systems 13.8

Microsoft Excel Microsoft Corp. 8.5

Project Workbench Applied Business Tech. 8.1

Time Line Time Line Solutions 6.1

Sure Trak Primavera Systems 5.3

CA-SuperProject Computer Associates, Intl. 2.8

Project Scheduler Scitor 2.8

Artemis Prestige Lucas Management Systems 2.0

FasTracs Applied Microsystems 2.0

Fox, T.L. & Spence, J.W. 1998. Tools of the trade: A survey of project

management tools. Project Management Journal.

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The Project Management Career A 1996 Fortune article called project management the number

one career choice

#1 position that IT managers say they will need for contract help

Average salary for project managers is atleast 1.5 times more as

compared to an equally experienced professional.

End

ser

Project

Staff Executive

Mgt

PM

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The end user can be a residential consumer or it can be a huge multinational business using voice, data,

video and multimedia services in a business environment

Telecom Service provider industry includes the traditional telecommunications, which has typically been voice

service, with the addition many years ago of data service as well

Some vendors sell products in a single area while many sell products in multiple areas of telecom, maybe

having business lines with wireless, broadband and optical products. Some vendors are local or regional,while many offer products nationally or internationally

At component manufacturer level, there will be a variety of projects specifically related to the development and

manufacturing processes

Telecom Value Chain

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A career in telecom today demands high level of project management skills.

In short, there is a need for Project Management Professionals at entry & managerial

levels who can handle end-to-end infrastructure in the following domains:

Telecom Jargons

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Conclusion

Project Management is a discipline that broadens horizon andbuilds competence in multiple knowledge areas

Project Management equips with wonderful tools to enhance

productivity and management skills

There is a great demand of good Project Managers in Telecom

industry

Good Project managers can work on any technology orindustry

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Thank You

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Project Managers are a fortunate lot, for, as everyone knows, a project manager

has nothing to do; that is, except...

To decide what is to be done;to tell somebody to do it;

to listen to reasons why it should not be done,

why it should be done by somebody else,

or why it should be done in a different way;

What does a Project Manager O?

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And then:

To follow up to see if the thing has been done;

to discover that it has not been done;to enquire why it has not been done;

to listen to excuses from the person who did not do it;

and to think up arguments to overcome the excuses .


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And then:

To follow up a second time to see if the thing has been done;

to discover that it has been done incorrectly;to point out how it shall be done;

to conclude that as long as it has been done it might as well be left as it is;

to wonder if it is not time to get rid of the person who cannot do a thing correctly;

to reflect that in all probability any successor would be just as bad, or worse.


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And finally:

To consider how much more simply and better the thing would have been done

had he done it himself in the first place;

to reflect satisfactorily that if he had done it himself he would have been able todo it right in 20 minutes

and that as things turned out, he himself spent two days trying to find out why it is

that it has taken somebody else three weeks to do it wrong.

To realise that such an idea would have a very demoralising effect on the project

team, because it would strike at the very foundation of the belief of all employees

that a project manager has nothing to do.


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