decide how to manage the transition to the next project

... effort to create Day - Software Design Reviewing the design - objective The objective is to increase the likelihood that the design is the best possible, and of high caliber It satisfies the software ... product, possibly a simulation, to be able to evaluate various choices and to answer the critical questions Day - Software Design Prototyping - its benefits Valuable task to address & resolve various ... Design Creating the design By a single person, however various help are encouraged appropriately in order to obtain good & solid design Applicable to creation of new design and to the modification...

Ngày tải lên: 15/10/2013, 23:13

... Specifications, the Benefits define the values of the product to the customers, the Functions describe in detail how the product works, and the Features describe how the product applies the Functions to produce ... asinine to drive without feedback and instead to specify at the beginning of the trip exactly how hard to push the accelerator or how far to turn the steering wheel at each moment of the trip ... provides It contains how- to information such as: how to find the optimum mix of channels, how to develop a successful channel, how to interview a sales executive, and how to select and manage a channel...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 01:20

... reports The meetings are not a chance for you to beat them up or to tell them how to their jobs but rather should be pegged to their agenda—what they want to talk about, factors that affect their ... individual contributors on the team, the customer, the management food chain involved in the project, and yourself, the project manager > Successful leadership through the people—customer, management, ... Training Another factor feeding the project management jungle is that managers are not taught what it means to lead project teams so that the American Management Association • www.amanet.org THE PROJECT...

Ngày tải lên: 05/04/2014, 01:27

... call it the business cycle They produce and deliver a product or service, they invoice the customer, they pay their bills, they get paid by their customers, and they the books We are going to set ... balance, as shown in Table 2.2 We’re ready to move on to the next step – we need to recruit someone to work for us installing these alarms Luckily there just happens to be a guy walking down the street ... practice, however, if a company is wound up 25 The Business Cycle they are the last to get paid The first to be paid are the receivers or administrators called in if a business has ceased trading Next...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 07:20

... box round them, in a single column; sometimes the figure above the box is the total of the things inside it, sometimes the total is below it, and sometimes the total is not shown 32 How to Understand ... financial strength of the company It is so simple to understand that the top half is what we have, and the bottom half is where it came from These two halves have to be equal – they have to balance So ... at the top and work down The first thing we need to is to calculate our sales Taking our delivery record (Table 2.6) we add up all the orders by looking at the total price column In our case there...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 07:20

... yourself, ‘Where I fit into this?’ The aim of this chapter is to show how each function is linked to the financial performance of the business, and how each can make its own contribution to financial health ... get their suppliers to fund their business to a greater or lesser degree This is why the US convention is to have your creditors on the bottom half of the balance sheet (where the money came from) ... on who the customer is, what the credit terms are and the level of risk involved, the factoring house will charge a commission based on the face value of the invoice and give you the cash today...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 07:20

... all the funds on the bottom half of the balance sheet and in UK accounting is the same as the top half of a balance sheet Clearly, the lower the gearing, the less the company owes the bank and the ... negotiated with our customers, to see how well we are managing our debtors To see the exact amounts outstanding we would examine the aged debtors profile – the actual sums owed to us within 30, 60 ... 37 days as the target to beat It is hard when examining the value of debtors on a balance sheet to decide what is a good DSO figure Hence, accountants use the DSO ratio to enable us to make this...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 07:20

... ownership of the asset, leasing it to the client in exchange for a monthly/quarterly rental payment over the period of the agreement At the end of the agreement, the asset is returned to the Asset ... capital To denote what each owner has in the company a number of shares (or stock) are issued These often have a notional face value rather than the full value of the funds put into the company by the ... of the dividends paid out to the shareholders Generally, the lower the risk of an industry, the more that is paid out as dividend and the less retained in the business So, for instance, in the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 07:20

... to be paid The rate is in the region of 20–25 per cent (depending on the size of the company etc) and the cash has to be handed over to the Inland Revenue about nine months after the end of the ... will show these materials as an asset, under ‘stocks’ Clearly, there is a cost to this stock, but it appears in the balance sheet and is only realised into the P&L account when you sell it Further ... consider the terminal value of a project if it continues to generate the same cash flow year after year into the future Economic profit An alternative approach for evaluating a project is to consider the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 07:20

... to their production lines at the exact point where the component is fitted to the car Then they ask their suppliers not to invoice them until a short time later when the finished car rolls off the ... owed to us by our customers This is directly related to how long customers take to pay their bills The longer we give them to pay, the more we will have owed to us at any one time Inevitably customers ... on whether the accounts provide a true and fair statement of the company’s business The auditors have to investigate the accounts to establish this, and if they are not satisfied with them they...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 07:20

... expect them to rise They fall for the converse reasons The market price of shares has no direct link to the asset value of the company as shown by its balance sheet share price The price of the ... expenses The amount of money available to cover interest expenses, taxes, and provide a return to the investors This is the level of profit managed by most managers, who not control the financing of their ... liabilities of the business, because if the business was liquidated it would owe them back to the shareholders But when people talk of the liabilities of the business, they usually mean the other liabilities,...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 07:20

... individual contributors on the team, the customer, the management food chain involved in the project, and yourself, the project manager > Successful leadership through the people—customer, management, ... www.amanet.org THE PROJECT MANAGEMENT JUNGLE projects are hard!” Yes, they are hard, but a few key factors have become tangled together over time to create the modern project management jungle: ... Training Another factor feeding the project management jungle is that managers are not taught what it means to lead project teams so that the American Management Association • www.amanet.org THE PROJECT...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 12:20

... reports The meetings are not a chance for you to beat them up or to tell them how to their jobs but rather should be pegged to their agenda—what they want to talk about, factors that affect their ... important that project managers learn how to inclusively manage and to be able to uncover team member concerns and incorporate them into appropriate solutions The project manager is caught in the confluence ... help followers learn how to work together Your job is to get the team to work together so that needed information flows quickly and accurately There is no time to waste To make all this work,...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 12:20

... Simply, it expects you to: > > > Listen to team members in the areas that matter to them Help them to meet their own work goals Lead them in the effort to establish and meet the overriding team ... trying to dictate dates to us that had considerable management reserve built into them and by trying to micromanage us > Management Expectations: From the time the project was approved, my management ... way to work around any added delay I took this approach because I wanted to teach the team leaders how to get out of their cubicles and work together, but it also served to keep costs down and to...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 12:20

... misunderstand the project charter process during initiation, allowing other agendas to piggyback onto it They also pay too little attention early on to the details of the project scope The key areas ... leaders It looks for the ability to communicate effectively so as to bridge the various stakeholder viewpoints, to manage and balance risk, to have the willingness to make the tough calls (even ... Pitfall: Project Manager Assigned After Project Approval Often, there are more potential projects than there are seasoned project managers Consequently, before the project receives final approval, the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 12:20

... of monitor and control that are useful to the people generating the data This requires that your approach to the project be one of solving the team’s problems, rather than controlling the project ... call The Plan for the Plan.’ ” She flips on the projector “You should have received these slides a couple days ago “First, as a group we will work out the top-level milestones for the project ... types an entry into the schedule projected on the screen in the front of the room She looks up, a weary smile on her face “We’re done, gang.” They begin to stand and move toward the doors “One...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 12:20

... PMs are too often trained to bother anybody on the project until they get the data they think they need to control the project Then they try to implement their decisions and often find they don’t ... needs to be on the tasks and risks and the actions needed to avert those risks for the next few milestones That takes up the bulk of the page Next, list all the remaining milestones At the bottom ... out the Key Manager’s One-Pager If the answer to any question in Figure 9-1 is No, then the manager is driven to enter the needed action into the OnePager For example, if the answer to the question...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 12:20

... wedge into your efforts to get the key managers to work together Stoplight Charts Most project managers in my experience either use too few or too many metrics to try to understand their projects ... in the project management community on PMIS The PMBOK Guide defines PMIS as “an automated system used by the project management team to aid execution of the activities planned in the project management ... in, as everyone just wants the project to be finished The customers want their deliverables Management wants you to stop spending money Your people want to get on their next task as soon as possible...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 12:20

... TACTILE Management is centered on people These tools are all just ways to help you, the project manager, sharpen your focus where it needs to be—not on chasing the next looming deadline and then the ... aspects of the project and try to control the project through the traditional triple constraints of performance, schedule, and cost They essentially ignore the people aspects of the project or ... Strategies for Tough Times New York: Warner Books, 1992 Project Management Institute A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge: PMBOK Guide 3rd ed Newton Square, Penn: Project Management...

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