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• 1 Leading change

• 1.1 Projects and their management

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• When will the temporary organization be disbanded?

  When the desired future state is achieved.

• What can be the resources to do the work in the project?

  People
  Materials
  money
  or all three of them.

• What are the features of the work of the project?

  it's unique
  it's novel
  it's transcient.

• What are the pressures created by the features of the work of the project?

  • transcience: urgency
  • novelty; new ways of working and hence to integrate the working of people from across established organizational structures
  • uniqueness: uncertainty

• What's the use of planning on a project if you cannot predict what happens working on a project?

  The plan must be used as a framework for coordination, but you must be ready and willing to change it as the project progresses.

• What are the two groups of people that are involved on the project?

  • owner
  • contractor

• What is the cost control cube?

  CBS, OBS and PBS together. They are part of a methodolgy called the cost and schedule control systems criteria (C/SCSC), which has now been incorporated into earned value analysis (EVA)

• What's the second dimension of project-based management?

  The processes we follow to convert vision into reality.
  The two components are:
  

  1. The project process (that takes us from vision to reality)
  2. The management process

• Discribe a basic five-step project process

  1. concept
  2. feasibility (haalbaarheid)
  3. design
  4. execution (implementatie)
  5. closeout

• What's the third dimension of project-based management?

  The project-levels. The levels over which the project is managed.