Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling, Tenth Edition

APPENDIX C

Dorale Products Case Studies

DORALE PRODUCTS (A)

PMBOK® GUIDE AREA	INTEGRATION MANAGEMENT SCOPE MANAGEMENT
SUBJECT AREA	DEFINING A PROJECT

Background

Dorale Products was undergoing favorable growing pains. Business was good. New product development was viewed as the driving force for the company's future growth. The company was now spending significantly more money for new product development, yet the number of new products reaching the market place was significantly less than in prior years. Also, some of the products reaching the market place were taking longer than expected to recover their R&D costs, while others became obsolete too quickly.

Management recognized that some sort of structured decision-making process had to be put in place whereby management could either cancel a project early before massive resources were committed or redirect efforts to different objectives. David Mathews was assigned as the project manager in charge of developing a new product development (project management) methodology for Dorale Products.

David understood the benefits of a project management methodology, especially as a structured decision-making process. It would serve as a template or a repetitive process such that project success could be incurred over and over again. The methodology would contain sections for project scope definition, planning, scheduling, and monitoring and control. There would also be a section on the role of the project manager, line managers, ...