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Software Project Management

Notes Reengineering Projects

The project generates a desired change in some system or process.

Examples:

 Taking sterling into the Euro
 Renumbering the UK telephone system
 Implementing PRINCE project management practices into a large organization.

 Designing and installing an Intranet.
Procurement Projects

The project create a business relationship contractually based with a chosen supplier for a
describe product or service based on a fixed specification and/or a described specification process.

Examples:
 Outsourcing a specific construction or research project
 Outsourcing a complete business function (such as IT).

 Imposing new rules and measures on a regulated industry.
Business Implementation Projects

The project constructs an operationally effective process. The value generated by the project is
embedded in the process.

Examples:
 Developing a new business process to repackage and exploit existing assets.

 Installing e-commerce
Some Projects are difficult to classify under this Scheme

Nationalized symbolic programmes:

 Putting a man on the moon by the end of the decade.
 Mitterrand’s Grandes Projects.
 New Labour
Huge medical programmes:

 Creating an artificial heart.
 Mass inoculation programmes.
Other hybrid or interdisciplinary projects

 Pilot projects
 Moving offices

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