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Project Management Basics.



What is Project Management?

Project Management is the art to manage the project.

What does mean to manage the project?

It is the discipline of Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring & Controlling and Closing the work of team/teams to achieve specific goal and meet the specific acceptance criteria (within Budget , Schedule , and Quality Standards)

What are the major challenges in project management?

Primary challenge is to achieve all the PROJECT GOALS with Given Constraints. More descriptively Scope, Time, Quality and Budget.

Secondary challenge is to optimize the allocation of allocation of resources and necessary inputs and to integrate them to meet the pre-defined goals.

What are the Project Management Approaches?

There are multiple approaches and vary organization-to-organization and industry-to-industry. Mostly categories in followings:

1.    The Traditional Approach
2.    Process Based Management
3.    PMI Standards (Project Management Institute Standards)
4.    PRINCE 2
5.    Lean Project Management
6.    Project Production Management
7.    Agile Methodologies
8.    Benefits Realization Management
9.    Critical Chain Project Management
10. Extreme Project Management / Mega Projects


What are the Project Management Process Groups?

Following process groups that are mentioned as Process Group in PMI are already available in almost all project management approaches by similar or slightly different names.

1.    Initiation
2.    Planning
3.    Executing
4.    Monitoring & Controlling
5.    Closing



What are the Knowledge areas in Project Management?

Following knowledge areas that are mentioned in PMI are already available in almost all project management approaches by similar or slightly different names.

1.    Project Integration Management
2.    Project Scope Management
3.    Project Time Management
4.    Project Cost Management
5.    Project Quality Management
6.    Project Human Resource Management
7.    Project Communication Management
8.    Project Risk Management
9.    Project Procurement Management
10. Project Stakeholder Management




What are the Project Management Processes?

If we see PMI approach and other approaches we found the processes, which are descriptively described in PMI Process group wise.

Knowledge Areas
Initiating Process Group
Planning Process Group
Executing Process Group
Monitor & Control Process Group
Closing Process Group
Project
Integration Management
4.1 Develop Project Charter
4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
4.4 Monitor and Control Project Work
4.5 Perform Integrated Change Control
4.6 Close Project or Phase
Project Scope Management

5.1 Plan Scope Management
5.2 Collect Requirements
5.3 Define Scope
5.4 Create WBS

5.5 Control Scope
5.6 Validate Scope

Project Time Management

6.1 Plan Schedule Management
6.2 Define Activities
6.3 Sequence  Activities
6.4 Estimate Activity Resources
6.5 Estimate Activity Duration
6.6 Develop Schedule

6.7 Control Schedule

Project Cost Management

7.1 Plan Cost Management
7.2 Estimate Cost
7.3 Determine Budget

7.4 Control Cost

Project Quality Management

8.1 Plan Quality Management
8.2 Perform Quality Assurance
8.3 Control Quality

Project Human Resource Management

9.1 Plan Human Resource Management
9.2 Acquire Project Team
9.3 Develop Project Team
9.4 Manage Project Team


Project Communication Management

10.1 Plan Communication Management
10.2 Manage Communication
10.3 Control Communication

Project Risk Management

11.1 Plan Risk Management
11.2 Identify Risks
11.3 Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
11.4 Perform Quantitative Analysis
11.5 Plan Risk Response

11.6 Control Risk

Project Procurement Management

12.1 Plan Procurement Management
12.2 Conduct Procurement
12.3 Control Procurement
12.4 Close Procurement
Project Stakeholder Management
13.1 Identify Stakeholders
13.2 Plan Stakeholder Management
13.3 Manage Stakeholders
13.4 Control Stakeholders





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