Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Chapter 6

This chapter is about Project Time Management. There are six main processes for project time management.

1) Activity definition- identifying and specific activities that must be perform to produce project delivery. It contains activity list and attributes.

2) Activity sequencing- identifying and documenting the relationship between project activities. It has three types of dependencies which are mandatory, discretionary and external dependencies. In this activity also include about activity-on-arrow (AOA) network diagram.

3) Activity resource estimating- estimating how many resources a project team should use to perform project activities. A resource breakdown structure is a hierarchical structure that identifies the project’s resources by category and type.

4) Activity duration estimating- estimating the number of work periods that are needed to complete individual activities. Duration is the actual amount of time worked on an activity plus elapsed time while effort is the number of workdays or work hours required to complete a task.

5) Schedule development- analyzing activity sequences, activity resource estimates, and activity duration estimates to create the project schedule. Usually we used Gantt chart to display the project schedule. We also include milestone to Gantt chart based on SMART criteria (Specific, Measurable, Assignable, Realistic and Time-framed). In schedule development, the critical path is the longest path through the AOA network diagram and has the least amount of slack or float.

6) Schedule control- controlling and managing changes to the project schedule. Tools and techniques that used include progress reports, a schedule change control system, project management software, variance analysis and performance management.

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About Me

Firstly, let me introduce myself first. My name is Siti Aishah Binti Hassan. I am 2nd year student at International Islamic University of Malaysia (IIUM). My bachelor degree in ICT, majoring in Computer Science. I was born in Setiu, Terengganu but my hometown is at Kota Bharu, Kelantan. My father passed away in February 1999. Since that, I live with my uncle. He works as a Custom Officer. I have 4 siblings and I am the first one. I love my siblings very much. Some information about me, I'm just a simple girl with a simple life style. I am a person who is very positive about every aspect of life. I love being myself. In my life, there are many things I like to do, to see, and to experience. I would like to share a quote from Dr. Seuss with you. I like this quote- "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."

Educational and Career Goals

I got early education until I finished secondary school in my hometown. After SPM, I apply for matriculation. I studied for foundation at CFS IIUM, Petaling Jaya for one and half years. Then, I further my study for degree at IIUM Gombak. I choose IIUM because I want study in Islamic surrounding. In IIUM, all students must taken Arabic language. Other than that, I want to prove my English. In IIUM we are only used two languages as the way of communication whether English or Arabic. Here, I’m not just writing in English but also must be speak the language in class. This is because, as an international university there are many students from different country in a class. The challenges that I faced as a student are like time management, communication and relationship with friends. Sometimes I don’t have enough time because every semester, KICT’s student have project for each course. In IIUM, there are international students come from other country that have different lifestyle and culture. At first, I have a little bit problems while trying to make friends with them. But now, so far I can handle it. In terms of academics, I achieved quite a satisfying result for every semester. For my future, I hope that I can grad with excellent results and my career opportunities in the field of ICT are not limited.

Reflections on the IT Project Management Class

First of all, special thanks to my lecturer Madam Masita Abdul Rahman for teaching this course (INFO 3501) in semester 3, 2008/2009. This course is a good introduction to IT project management and it helps me to understand basic aspect in managing projects. I have got many experience and lesson from this course. During the class session, I like when we need to do task in group. After that we need to present about our project. I like discussion and work in group because indirectly I can improve my communication skills. I also learned how to create document for a project. Personally, I am not only studied to manage the project but I can use it in my daily life so that I can manage my life better. In this course, it has lots of terms and theories that I have to know. Sometimes it makes me stress because I need to learn two chapters in a day. Another problem is about the time to complete the project. I have to follow so many rules and prepare much documentation for the project in short period of time. I have some suggestion to make this course more understandable. For contents, the words that used in text book is bit complicated for me and partially I can’t understand clearly. I just get detail explanations from my lecturer. Another suggestion in the future, lecturer gives chance to students to do real project even a small project. Through this way, I can get new experience and know the real challenges when I have worked after grad. If I have more time, I want try to remember all my classmate’s name. This is because, most of my classmates are 3rd year student. I also want to concentrate more in class so that I can get A in exam.