- "Project management is the process of leading the work of a team to achieve all project goals within the given constraints."
This is the process of planning, executing, and controlling projects to achieve specific goals and objectives within a set timeframe and budget.
Project Scope Management: This involves defining the project and all of its objectives, goals, and deliverables.
Project Time Management: This involves developing a detailed schedule for the project, including timelines, milestones, and deadlines.
Project Cost Management: This involves managing the budget for the project, including estimating costs, controlling expenses, and ensuring that the project is completed within budget.
Project Quality Management: This involves ensuring that the project is completed to the required standards and meets the needs and expectations of stakeholders.
Project Risk Management: This involves identifying potential risks to the project and developing strategies to mitigate or manage them.
Project Communications Management: This involves managing communication between stakeholders, including project team members, clients, and vendors.
Project Procurement Management: This involves managing the procurement of goods and services necessary for the project, including developing contracts, negotiating prices, and managing suppliers.
Project Resource Management: This involves managing the resources required for the project, including people, equipment, and facilities.
Project Stakeholder Management: This involves identifying and managing stakeholders, including clients, end-users, project team members, and vendors.
Project Integration Management: This involves coordinating all of the project management processes and ensuring that they are aligned with the overall objectives of the project.
Waterfall: A traditional methodology that is based on a linear approach to project management. Each phase is completed sequentially before moving on to the next.
Agile: An iterative and flexible methodology that emphasizes collaboration and continuous improvement. Teams work together to deliver smaller pieces of a project quickly and adapt to changes along the way.
Scrum: An Agile methodology that involves a small, self-managed team (usually five to nine people) who work together to complete tasks within short sprints or iterations.
Kanban: Another Agile methodology that emphasizes visualizing work and limiting work in progress (WIP) to improve productivity and efficiency.
Lean: A methodology that focuses on reducing waste and maximizing value to the customer through continuous improvement and eliminating unnecessary steps.
Six Sigma: A data-driven methodology that emphasizes statistical analysis to identify and eliminate defects in a process.
PRINCE2: A methodology that is widely used in Europe and emphasizes structured project management, with a focus on planning, monitoring, and controlling.
Critical Path Method: A methodology that helps to identify the critical path in a project, which is the series of tasks that must be completed on time to ensure that the project is completed on schedule.
Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK): A framework that outlines best practices for project management, including five process groups: initiation, planning, executing, monitoring, and controlling, and closing.
Hybrid: A methodology that combines elements of multiple methodologies, tailored to fit the unique needs of a particular project or organization.
- "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."