Wednesday, February 2, 2011

PMP Training : Day 2

Project Cost Management
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Planned Value - Earned Value = Net Gain /Loss.

There are ' cumulative value' and ' current value' for any project.

AC = Actual Cost. There are current cost and cumulative cost.

Unless they specify, it's cumulative cost.

Some words and acronyms used in project management.

SV = Schedule Variance = PV - EV. Planned Value - Earned Value.

CV = Cost Variance EV - AC.

SPI = Schedule Performance Index = EV / PV.

CPI = Cost Performance Index = EV / AC .

CSI = SPI/CPI.

CSI = Cost Schedule Index.

EAC = Estimated Completion.

EAC = BPC / CPI.

ETC = Estimate to Complete.

BAC = Cost Baseline. = always in S curve.

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PROJECT QUALITY MANAGEMENT
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What is quality?

Quality is - meeting the specifications ( according to management).

From customer perspective : Satisfaction, utility value and fit to use.

Quality always comes with a cost. Cost of conformance.

Cost of non-conformance is failure.

There are 3 quality guru s.

1. Phillip Crosby. 14 quality principles.

2. Joseph Disn. 3 quality principles.

3. Deming.

" Baseline is the snap shot of the present scenario".

Net Search : ' Tools and Techniques' for program quality control.

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CONFLICT MANAGEMENT
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Here are the responses to conflict

1. Problem solving or confrontation.
2.Compromise.
3.Forcing.
4.Collaboration.
5.Smoothing.
6.Withdrawal.

POST LUNCH ( OB related topics)
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In a communication network, number of communication channels = n*(n-1)/2.

Communiation skills
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Communication process.

Encode-> channel -> message -> decode -> medium -> noise -> decode.

The other 2 sessions. Project Risk management & Ethics in project management.

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