Planning the Project

A description of how large academic laboratories are administered, illustrating how different management styles can be successful, has appeared in the literature.114 There is great diversity in laboratory operations in large laboratories, but clearly contact between those who plan the projects, those who have high skills in project operations, and those who execute the more... 

Nevertheless, a manager who undertakes a project, has to take a unidirectional approach to it. He or she has to attend to such matters as planning the project, involving people in its execution (organizing, co-ordinating, commanding) and making sure that it happens broadly in the way Intended (control). 

The project validation plan is for individual projects (including equipment) or systems and is derived from the validation master plan. The project validation plan should be closely linked to the overall project and quality plan. 

Development is usually done in several phases. Each phase can have any number of steps. In the course we mn we assume four phases a first one in which a firm orients itself and plans which products it will develop, a second one in which a core team forms concepts and plans the project, a third one in which the core team develops the selected concept to a product with its manufacturing and market, and a final phase in which the product is exploited (Figure 3-1). Each of these phases is a learning cycle for the firm, but there will be many sub-cycles in each. The subdivision into four phases is arbitrary a complex project may need more phases. Regulations may force one to use more phases. 

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Stakeholder An interested or affected party in an ongoing or contemplated project (usually involving a group or team planning the project, analyzing one or more problems, and making decisions for possible actions on the basis of the interpretation of that analysis) (USEPA, 2003). 

Documentation should be subject to review, prior to its formal release. Such a review might assume a number of forms ranging from the evaluation of the docnment and collection of comments throngh to its inspection within formally convened review meetings. The reviewers shonld be identified in advance within the Validation Plan, the Project and Quality Plan, or the docnment management procedures. Many firms give staff guidance on how to decide the most appropriate reviewers for different documents. 

The identity of custodians of controlled copies of documents should be defined in the Validation Plan, the Project and Quality Plan, or the document management procedure. The allocation of released documents to these individuals should be controlled through managed distribution lists. Superseded versions of controlled documents must be replaced in a eomprehensive and timely fashion. Obsolete versions of documents must be clearly marked as superseded. 

All the factors listed below can affect project cost and/or schedule. Some will have a favorable impact, others a negative one. Some are controllable, while others are not. Since no two projects are alike, the effect will vary with the circumstances surrounding each one. Every factor must be considered and analyzed before finalizing the project execution plan. The Project Manager must "make things happen," make the most out of the favorable and controllable factors while striving... 

The evaluation process, sometimes known as stage gates and phased reviews, needs to be accomplished early in the development project life and continue on throughout the life of a project as needed and defined in a contract or integrated project plan. The project plan will be reviewed later in this chapter along with its use in project reviews and stage gates. 

The project risks and issues with contingency plans. The project plan and schedule (in milestone form for management review and in detailed team member deliverable form for the team members)... 

Because of the complexity of the subject and the broadness of the covered topics, the production of these volumes took far longer than expected when we planned the project. We would like to thank Springer-Verlag for their help and active cooperation and the contributing authors for their patience in waiting for the publication of... 

The project manager facilitates the team-building process and collaborates with the project team to create and execute the project plan. The project manager also acts as the liaison between the team and the client. He or she continually monitors the progress of the project and reports project status periodically to both the client and other interested stakeholders. The project manager works to ensure that the client is satisfied and that the project is completed within the parameters of scope, schedule, cost, and quahty. 

The specific technical expertise required of the core team members is dependent upon the nature of the project. However, at a minimum, they should have a sufficient top-level understanding of the technical issues to be able to define and plan the project effectively as well as to manage the resources that may be recruited to work on the project. 

A key member of the project planning team is the project manager because he or she will have primary responsibility for executing the project plan. The project planning team may also include one or more members of the project definition team to ensure that the thinking that went into defining the project is reflected in the project plan. If the project definition team is not represented on the project planning team, a draft of the project plan should be reviewed by one or more project definition team members. 

There are literally thousands of documents published by more thousands of authorities that provide information, best practices, professional criteria, and otherwise control every part of a project from inception to completion. We will deal here in outline form with those that influence the medical or technical aspects of planning the project. 

Any industrial investment has its own procedure that leads to a successful project. A fertilizer project also has its systemic implications. If these are not considered in planning the project implementation and the adequate instruments to abate investment distortions are not prepared, then ad-hoc measures may not avoid the losses. 

YES / NO Evaluation/monitoring of subcontractors to determine conformance with the Project Plan. (The Project Plan may include, or be utilized by subcontractors.)... 

Project plan — The project leader is responsible for creating a project plan for each project/ subproject undertaken with tasks approved and resources assigned. 

A project hazard analysis (preliminary hazard analysis) should be performed for each project prior to the start of work and should provide a basis for the project-specific safety and health plan. The project hazard analysis should identify the following ... 

Robert Bothwell, a noted Canadian historian, helped plan the project and reviewed the manuscript as it evolved. His experience in writing on Canada s nuclear industries and his general knowledge of postwar Canada were invaluable in situating MDS Nordion s story within its broader historical context. 

Figure 5.4 Plan the project by beginning with the project objective and working backwards.

The Critical Path Method (CPM) enables us to answer the four questions. Note that the four questions relate to the Chapter 5 project planning-execution-closing process. That is, first question applies to planning the project, the second and third questions to executing the project, and the fourth question to closing the project. 

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