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Fundamentals of Project Management



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                                                Figure 1.2: Expectations of a Project (Illustration: Rachèl Harmsen)






















                                    Design Phase

                                    The list of requirements that is developed in the definition phase can be used to make design
                                    choices. In the design phase, one or more designs are developed, with which the project result
                                    can apparently be achieved. Depending on the subject of the project, the products of the design
                                    phase can include dioramas, sketches, flow charts, site trees, HTML screen designs, prototypes,
                                    photo impressions and UML schemas. The project supervisors use these designs to choose the
                                    definitive design that will be produced in the project. This is followed by the development
                                    phase. As in the definition phase, once the design has been chosen, it cannot be changed in a later
                                    stage of the project.

                                              Figure 1.3: Example: Global Design for the DANS Architecture Archive















                                    In a young, very informal company, the design department was run by an artist. The term
                                    design department was not accurate in this case; it was more a group of designers who were
                                    working together. In addition, everyone was much too busy, including the head of the department.
                                    One project involved producing a number of designs, which were quite important to the success
                                    of the project. A young designer on the project team created the designs. Although the head of
                                    the design department had ultimate responsibility for the designs, he never attended the meetings
                                    of the project team when the designs were to be discussed. The project leader always invited
                                    him, and sent him e-mails containing his young colleagues sketches, but the e-mails remained
                                    unanswered. The project leader and the young designer erroneously assumed that the department
                                    head had approved the designs. The implementation phase began. When the project was nearly
                                    finished, the result was presented to the department head, who became furious and demanded
                                    that it be completely redone. The budget, however, was almost exhausted.






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