Questions

1. Compare project Management, program Management, and portfolio Management:

| Project Management | Program Management | Portfolio Management |

Scope | Creating something new | Handling related projects | Handling non-related projects |

Change | | | |

Planning | | | |

Management | | | |

Success | Meet defined objectives | Benefit different stakeholder | Long-term value to investor |

2. What is a project, and what are its main attributes? How is a project different from what most people do in their day-to-day jobs? Give examples

A- A project is “a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service, or result”.

Project Attributes:

1-Has a unique purpose

2-Is temporary

3-Is developed using progressive elaboration

4-Requires resources, often from various areas

5-Should have a primary customer or sponsor

* Project management is different because it has a time limit and each time we get new project to work on. E.G A technician replaces ten laptops for a small department or a small software development team adds a new feature to an internal software application for the finance department.

3. Assume that you are a project manager for KSU LMS project. Explain the four frames of organizations. How can they help you understand the organizational context for the project?

1- Structural Frame: Understanding this frame will allow me to know what would be each person role in the project. What exactly does he need from this project from the CEO to employees.

2- Political Frame: How would support me in this project. I need to make sure that I have the most votes or this project would be declined.

3- Human Resource Frame: Does this project help people to achieve organization goal? We need to find out about this and the answer we want is yes.

4- Symbolic Frame: The LMS project will be new to people in the organization so I need to know are they going to accept this change? Since it is new to their...