2. Presentation Dos
Practice your presentation
Time yourself so youknow you will meet time restraints
Know your presentation inside and out
Check spelling and grammar
Nothing can hurt an otherwise excellent presentation than a simple
typo (i.e. to, too, and two)
3. Presentation Dos
Use visuals
Appropriate images within your presentation can help its over all
appearance
Anticipate what questions may be asked
Being able to quickly answer simple questions will let those
watching your presentation know that you are a subject matter
expert
4. Presentation Donts
Put too much information on one slide
Putting more than 3-5 major bullet points on a single slide can be
confusing and hard to read
Slides should be an overview of what you are talking about
Answer too many questions during a presentation
This can throw off the flow and make you lose your place
Visual clutter
Too many visuals make a presentation look cluttered and
unprofessional
5. Financial Analysis Tools
Payback Analysis
Determines how long it takes an Infosys to pay for itself through
reduced costs and increased benefits
Steps:
Determine the initial development cost of the system
Estimate annual benefits
Determine the annual operation costs
Find the payback period by comparing total development and
operating costs to the accumulated value of the benefits produced
by the system.
6. Financial Analysis Tools
Payback Analysis (cont.)
The time it takes to recover the systems cost is called the payback
period
As the system requires more maintenance, costs beginto
increase
The period between the beginning of systems operation and the point
when operational costs are rapidly increasing is called the
economically useful life of the system
7. Financial Analysis Tools
Return on Investment (ROI)
A percentage rate that compares the total net benefits (the return)
received from a project to the total costs (the investment) of the
project
ROI = (total benefits - total costs) / total costs
Considers cost and benefits over a longer time span than payback
analysis.
Based on total costs and benefits for a period of five to seven
years.
Measures profitability by comparing total net benefits
8. Financial Analysis Tools
Net Present Value
The total value of the benefits minus the total value of the
costs
Both costs and benefits adjusted to reflect the point in time at
which they occur
The present value of a future dollar is the amount of money that,
when invested today at a specified interest rate, grows to exactly
one dollar at a certain point in the future.
The specified interest rate is called the discount rate
9. Financial Analysis Tools
Net Present Value (cont.)
The discount rate represents the rate of return if the money is put
into risk-free investments, instead of being invested in a
project
A positive NPV is economically feasible because the project will
produce a larger return than would be achieved by investing the
same amount of money in a discount rate investment.
Can be used to compare and rank projects
All things being equal the project with the highest net present
value is the best investment
10. History of Project Management
Project management has been practiced since early
civilization
Until the 1900s civil engineering projects were generally managed
by creative architects and engineers themselves
Henry Gantt (1861-1919),
Called the father of planning and control techniques
Famously known for his use of the Gantt chart as a project
management tool
11. History of Project Management
The 1950s marked the beginning of the modern Project Management
era
Prior to the 1950s, projects were managed on an ad hoc basis using
mostly Gantt Charts, and informal techniques and tools
Two mathematical project scheduling models were developed Critical
Path Method (CPM) and Program Evaluation and Review Technique
(PERT)
12. History of Project Management
CPM was developed in a joint venture by both DuPont Corporation and
Remington Rand Corporation for managing plant maintenance
projects
PERT, developed by Booz-Allen & Hamilton as part of the United
States Navy's (in conjunction with the Lockheed Corporation)
Polaris missile submarine program; These mathematical techniques
quickly spread into many private enterprises
13. History of Project Management
(1956) The American Association of Cost Engineers (now AACE
International; the Association for the Advancement of Cost
Engineering) was formed by project management professionals
AACE continued its pioneering work and in 2006 released the first
ever integrated process for portfolio, program and project
management (Total Cost Management Framework)
14. History of Project Management
(1969) The Project Management Institute(PMI) formed to serve the
interests of the PM industry
PMIs premise is that the tools and techniques of project management
are common among widespread applications of projects from industry
to industry
(1981) the PMI Board of Directors authorized the development of A
Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide),
containing standards and guidelines of practice that are widely
used throughout the profession
