BBT Pty Ltd is a small consulting company that helps less experienced project managers. It provides training, mentoring, and coaching in project management. BBT believes in building on past achievements, focusing on critical issues, and incrementally building a robust system. BBT uses the project management principles from the Project Management Institute's Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge. This includes understanding project lifecycles, the ten knowledge areas of projects, defining objectives and deliverables, creating work breakdown structures, and managing the critical path. BBT recommends using Microsoft Project, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint as project management tools.

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Introduction
BBT Pty Limited is a small company with a single focus:
“to help less experienced project managers better manage their
projects”
We do this through consulting, training, mentoring and coaching in areas specific to
managing projects.
Project Management Approach
BBT Pty Ltd believes in building on what you have already achieved, focusing on the critical
issues, and brick by brick building a robust system.
Project Management Principles
PROJECT MANAGEMENT METHODOLOGY
The project management principles we use are those espoused by
the Project Management Institute (PMI)® in their “Guide to the
Project Management Body of Knowledge” (PMBoK)®. These
principles work for us, but they are not exclusive of other project
management methods currently in use around Australia.
PROJECT LIFE CYCLE
Understanding the different phases of the project and what you
need to really focus on and when goes a long way towards
ensuring your effort is invested in the right way.

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Project Management Principles
PROJECT KNOWLEDGE AREAS
Knowing the ten elements that are common to every project (to a
greater or lesser degree) provides a framework to more effectively
manage your project:
1. Scope
2. Time (Schedule)
3. Cost
4. Quality
5. Risk
6. Stakeholder Engagement
7. Communications
8. HR
9. Procurement
10. Integration
OBJECTIVES AND DELIVERABLES
Understanding the difference between objectives and
deliverables, and knowing how to clearly define them is
fundamental to project success …
WORK BREAKDOWN STRUCTURE (WBS)
Building a robust and focused WBS is a key element in being able
produce all the items you have promised to deliver as part of
achieving your overall project goal ...
CRITICAL PATH
Knowing the sequence of tasks that is going to take the longest
amount of time, and managing it, is essential for ensuring the
project will finish on time. That’s why this sequence of tasks is
called the “critical path” ….

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Project Management Tools
MICROSOFT PROJECT
The schedule and its progress, costs and resources can be difficult
to track. The more complex the project, the more difficult it
becomes. MS Project is designed to help project managers do
exactly that – plan and track their project.
EXCEL
Microsoft Project is not designed to manage the minutiae of of a
project e.g. stock control or the parts used in building a machine.
Excel is. Detailed quantities and costings can be stored and
calculated in Excel. Then the final figure can be linked into MS
Project. Excel also has powerful charting functionality which can be
accessed from MS Project using Visual Reports.
WORD
Word is the perfect reporting tool. It allows for beautifully
formatted documents which can link directly to both Excel and MS
Project to ensure the latest data is shown. Templates make
building the reports even quicker and easier. They should not be a
major production.
POWERPOINT
PowerPoint is the perfect presentation tool. “A picture is worth a
thousand words” and that is what PowerPoint can do. It can also
link to MS Project, Excel and Word. It too has templates to make
building the presentations quicker and easier.
“Structure and processes provide certainty in the uncertain world of managing projects”