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WALTER SISULU UNIVERSITY: BUTTERWORTH CAMPUSNATIONAL DIPLOMA: CIVIL ENGINEERING
MANAGEMENT II: MODULE 3: PRINCIPLES OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Table of Contents
Item Page
Table of Contents 1
1. Learning Outcomes & assessment criteria2
2. An Introduction to the Principles of Project Management 2
a) A project's life cycle.........................................................................................................................2
i) Project Life Cycle Costs....................................................................................2
ii) Project phases...................................................................................................2
(1) Conceptual phase.............................................................................................2
(2) Development phase..........................................................................................3
(3) Implementation phase......................................................................................3
(4) Termination phase...........................................................................................3
b) Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)..................................................................................................3
c) Project management process.............................................................................................................3
d) Project Management vs Operational Management...........................................................................4
e) Three Key Project Management Functions: Time, Cost & Quality..................................................5
i) Time Management.............................................................................................5
ii) Cost Management.............................................................................................5
iii) Quality.............................................................................................................6
3. References 7
Walter Sisulu University Management II Page 3.1
, WALTER SISULU UNIVERSITY: BUTTERWORTH CAMPUS
NATIONAL DIPLOMA: CIVIL ENGINEERING
MANAGEMENT II: MODULE 3: PRINCIPLES OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT
1. Learning Outcomes & assessment criteria
Specified Learning Outcomes Assessment Criteria:
Students must be able to:
1. Demonstrate a contextualised 1. Explain the following Project Management principles:
understanding of the Principles of 1.1. The project's life cycle, including:
Project Management 1.1.1. Project Life Cycle Costs
1.1.2. Project Life Cycle phases
1.2. The meaning and application of the Work
Breakdown Structure
1.3. How the Project Management process work
1.4. The differences between Project Management and
Operational Management processes
1.5. The meaning and application of the Project
Management functions: Time, Cost & Quality
2. An Introduction to the Principles of Project Management
Project Management (PM) is logically sound and easy to understand. Its principles are not
complicated premises conjured up by theoreticians; it developed in the workplace and can be
applied to virtually any type of task, as this simple model of a project's life cycle shows:
a) A project's life cycle
Any project comprises four basic phases:
Figure 1: Project phases
Conceptual Development Termination Four basic
phase phase Implementation phase phase "phases"
Scope is Definition Procurement Execution Commissioning Intermediate
defined planning specs of project "phases" added
PROJECT LIFE CYCLE
START END
i) Project Life Cycle Costs
The total accumulated cost through the four phases of a project is the project's life
cycle cost. This is used by project owners to choose between various project
alternatives.
ii) Project phases
(1) Conceptual phase
The conceptual phase is the one with the most crucial influence on the eventual
success of a project. The ultimate goal of the project must be compatible with the
constraints of limited resources. As the project progresses, the influence of this
phase on the possible project success will diminish if the scope of the project is
unrealistic in terms of the given constraints. The determined scope of the project
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