- "Project management is the process of leading the work of a team to achieve all project goals within the given constraints."
An introduction to project management, including planning, budgeting, scheduling, and control of construction projects.
Project Scope Management: The art of defining, documenting and controlling the scope of a project. This includes identifying the project objectives, requirements, deliverables, and boundaries.
Project Time Management: The practice of planning, scheduling, and controlling the activities and events that make up a construction project, to ensure timely delivery.
Project Cost Management: The techniques and processes involved in estimating, budgeting, funding, and controlling the costs of a construction project.
Project Quality Management: The processes that ensure that the quality of the construction output meets or exceeds the client's requirements and expectations.
Project Risk Management: The processes involved in identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks in a construction project in order to reduce their negative impact on the project's performance or outcome.
Project Communication Management: The processes involved in planning, creating, distributing, and managing information about a construction project, including progress reporting and stakeholder engagement.
Project Stakeholder Management: The processes involved in identifying, engaging, communicating with, and managing stakeholders involved or impacted by the construction project.
Project Resource Management: The processes involved in acquiring, allocating, and managing the resources, including labor and materials, required for the successful completion of a construction project.
Project Procurement Management: The processes involved in procuring goods and services from external vendors or contractors, including contract management and bid evaluation.
Project Integration Management: The processes involved in coordinating and integrating all aspects of a construction project, including all the above areas, to ensure its overall success.
Traditional project management: A sequential and linear approach to construction project management, where each phase is completed before the next one starts. This approach is often preferred for smaller, less complex projects.
Design-bid-build project management: A traditional approach where the owner contracts with an architect to develop a design, and then the project is put out to bid for construction. The contractor with the lowest bid is awarded the project.
Design-build project management: A streamlined approach where the owner contracts with a single entity to both design and construct the building. This approach can save time and money by eliminating the need for bidding and the potential for scope creep.
Construction management at risk: The owner hires a construction manager to oversee the project from design through construction. The construction manager assumes the risks associated with cost overruns and delays.
Integrated project delivery: A collaborative approach where the owner, architect, and construction team work together from the beginning to ensure the best possible outcome. This approach requires trust and open communication between all parties.
Lean construction project management: A methodology that emphasizes efficiency and waste reduction through careful planning and process improvement. This approach is ideal for larger, more complex projects where waste and delays can be a significant cost driver.
Program management: A strategic approach to managing multiple projects that are part of a larger program. This approach requires a high level of coordination and management across multiple teams.
Agile project management: A flexible and iterative approach to project management that allows for changing requirements and priorities. This approach is often used in software development but can also be applied to construction projects.
Predictive project management: A data-driven approach to project management that uses historical data and performance metrics to predict outcomes and manage risks. This approach can improve project efficiency and reduce costs.
- "The primary constraints are scope, time, and budget."
- "The secondary challenge is to optimize the allocation of necessary inputs and apply them to meet pre-defined objectives."
- "The objective of project management is to produce a complete project which complies with the client's objectives."
- "Once the client's objectives are clearly established, they should influence all decisions made by other people involved in the project."
- "Ill-defined or too tightly prescribed project management objectives are detrimental to decision-making."
- "A project is a temporary and unique endeavor designed to produce a product, service, or result with a defined beginning and end."
- "Typically, to bring about beneficial change or added value."
- "The temporary nature of projects stands in contrast with business as usual, which are repetitive, permanent, or semi-permanent functional activities to produce products or services."
- "In practice, the management of such distinct production approaches requires the development of distinct technical skills and management strategies."
- "This information is usually described in project documentation, created at the beginning of the development process."
- "The objective of project management is also to shape or reform the client's brief to feasibly address the client's objectives."
- "For example, project managers, designers, contractors, and subcontractors."
- "Usually time-constrained, and often constrained by funding or staffing."
- "The process of leading the work of a team to achieve all project goals within the given constraints."
- "A defined beginning and end (usually time-constrained)."
- "The temporary nature of projects stands in contrast with business as usual (or operations)."
- "The allocation of necessary inputs to meet pre-defined objectives."
- "The secondary challenge is to optimize the allocation of necessary inputs and apply them to meet pre-defined objectives."
- "The objective of project management is to produce a complete project which complies with the client's objectives."