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Learn about project management, its processes, and the project management environment, including stakeholders, clients, and market conditions. Discover the key bodies of knowledge in project management.
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Lecture 2 Project Management Concepts Project Management
What is Project Management? • PMBOK defines Project Management as: • “The application of knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to carry out project activities in order to meet stakeholder needs and expectations from a project”
What is Project Management? • Project Management is the management of project related activities with in specified time, cost and performance standards along with good customer relation.
Project Management Processes • PM can be defined in to five stages: • Defining • Planning • Executing • Monitoring or Controlling • Closing
Defining • What is that project • What are the project objectives • What are the expectations of stakeholders • What are the project deliverables • What are the constraints of the project
Planning • Plan all the project activities • Plan the relationship of these activities with each other • Plan the duration of these activities • Plan the deadlines • Plan the outcome of specific activity • Plan requirements for completing the project • Plan the risks associated with the project
Executing • Build the project team • Assess the available resources for project • Assign resources for the project • Work on project begins
Monitoring and Controlling • Look after the overall progress of the project • Keep comparing the actual parameters with targeted parameters • Keep making the necessary changes
Closing • All stakeholders analyze the final outcome of project • Project team is pulled out from the project
Project Management Environment • Some key components of Project Management environment are: • Stakeholders • Clients • Own company’s organizational structure • Market conditions • Competitors • New technology • Rules and regulations • Politics • Economic condition
PM Bodies in World • APM (Association for Project Managers) • PMI (Project Management Institute), USA • IPMA (International Project Management Association) • AIPM (Australian Institute of Project Management) • PMAJ (Project Management Association Japan)
Body of Knowledge • APMBOK • PMI’s BOK or PMBOK • IPMA’s BOK or IPMABOK