Surroundings of Projects
Surroundings of Projects (hereinafter, the Lectio) is the lesson part of Project Work Essentials lesson that introduces its participants to project management concepts. This lesson belongs to the CNMCT Entrance section of the CNM Cyber Placement.
Content
The predecessor lectio is Developments at the Wiki.
Script
- Project environments are those natural and human-made surroundings in which those who work on a project perform. The most important ones are those surroundings that impact or may impact the project cost, project timeline, and/or work product.
- Project costs are money that are spent to complete the project. Project budgets are those financial plans that estimate project costs. Unexpected expenses, increased costs, or inability to pay on time may negatively impact the performance on a project.
- Project timelines are linear representations or displays of chronological order of project milestones. Project schedules are those temporal plans that estimate when the needed resources be received, work products be completed, and deliverables be shipped.
- A work product is a solution, component of a solution, or any other output from any endeavor. Usually, a work product is a deliverable, but not every work product becomes a deliverable. A deliverable is any work product that one party has agreed to deliver to another.
- Work products are too diverse to have a single classification, but, when it comes to their development, the main question is whether the developers know how to develop it.
- Scripted-work products are those work products that development process is structured and known in details. They would include constructions, non-designer clothing, and foods prepared according to recipes.
- Unscripted-work products are those work products that development process is unstructured or unknown. They would include first ever radio, first ever airplane, and first ever computer. If developers have no instructions for developing something, development of this something is unscripted.
- Creative works such as content development and design always include both scripted and unscripted aspects. Extremely-exclusive web-design can take a few years and more than a million dollars to develop. It can also take few hours and peanuts to clone or modify some existing design. Since schedules for creative works cannot be really calculated, the customer usually simply sets up their project budgets and/or schedules, so developers would manage their effort.
. The surroundings refer to the internal and external factors and forces, both standing alone and interacting with one another.
- Internal environment . (1) Those factors and forces inside of somebody or something that affect or can potentially affect his, her, or its performance; (2) Enterprise environment within the borders of the enterprise.
- External environment. (1) Those factors and forces outside of somebody or something that affect or can potentially affect his, her, or its performance; (2) Enterprise environment beyond the borders of the enterprise.
Project assets, project costs, project timescales, enterprise factors, as well as some features of work products contribute to risks and benefits of projects.
- Project costs are . Project timelines are . Obviously, unpredictable expenses and timeline shortages stress any project work.
- Project assets are those organizational resources that a worker or a team can use while working on a project. Contents of CNM Wiki are some of those resources. When you work on your task as a part of the CNM Cyber Team, you can use any of those contents; you may also choose not to use any.
- Enterprise factors are those conditions that direct and constrain project work; these conditions are imposed by the organizational cultures, organizational workforce, or project environment. When you work on a project, these conditions are not under your immediate control.
- For example, the CNM Cyber Team uses CNM Wiki for its work on requirements. You may like it or not, but, if you work on requirements as a part of the Team, you have to use the Wiki. Similarly, you cannot change personalities of your teammates and their approaches to work.
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Closing
The successor lectio is What Project Work Is.
