- "Project management is the process of leading the work of a team to achieve all project goals within the given constraints."
The process of planning, organizing, and managing resources to complete a specific project within a specific timeframe and budget.
Project Scope Management: Understanding and defining project objectives, deliverables and boundaries.
Project Time Management: Identifying project activities, estimating their duration and creating a schedule to best allocate resources.
Project Cost Management: Creating and managing a budget for a project, keeping track of costs and estimating future expenses.
Project Risk Management: Identifying and assessing risks to the successful completion of a project and developing mitigation strategies.
Project Quality Management: Ensuring that the deliverables of a project meet the desired level of quality and are consistent with client expectations.
Project Communications Management: Developing a project communication plan that specifies how information will be shared, by whom and with whom.
Project Procurement Management: Involves identifying and selecting suppliers, determining the terms of a contract, and managing the relationship with suppliers.
Project Human Resource Management: Managing the people who will be working on a project, including recruitment, training, and management.
Project Integration Management: Ensuring that all aspects of a project work together seamlessly, including planning, executing, and controlling activities.
Project Stakeholder Management: Identifying and managing stakeholders, including identifying their interests and expectations, and ensuring their support for the project.
Project Dashboards: A visual representation of the project’s status, where stakeholders can access real-time data for insights into the project’s progress.
Agile project management: A framework for organizing and completing projects in a flexible, iterative manner.
Waterfall project management: A linear and sequential approach to project management where each stage is completed before moving on to the next.
Project management software: Digital tools for planning, scheduling, and tracking project progress.
Project Management Lifecycle: A series of phases that a project progresses through from start to finish. Starts with Initiation phase in which project objectives and scope are defined and ends with the closure phase.
Resource management: Optimizing the use of resources to ensure that the project can be completed efficiently and effectively.
Change management: Managing changes that occur during the project, including unexpected events or modifications to the project scope over time.
Hierarchy of management: Understanding how different levels of management interact and collaborate to achieve project objectives.
Performance management: Ensuring that all team members are meeting project expectations and managing any needed improvement.
Leadership: Effective leadership of project teams involves the ability to manage, delegate and resolve conflict to overcome any obstacles to project success.
Traditional Project Management: This is the most common approach to Project Management. It involves a sequential process that goes through five stages: initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing.
Agile Project Management: This approach is used for software development projects. It emphasizes flexibility, collaboration and responsiveness to change, with an iterative approach and working software as the primary measure of progress.
Scrum Project Management: Scrum is an Agile framework that focuses on product team self-management on multi-disciplinary teams. This approach uses sprints of 2-4 weeks to deliver working software as often as possible, while using daily standup meetings and retrospectives to improve the team’s performance.
Waterfall Project Management: This approach is used for projects with clearly defined requirements, with stages that follow a strict sequence.
Lean Project Management: Promotes minimizing waste, lean resources, and delivering maximum value in the shortest time possible.
PRINCE2 Project Management: Stands for PRojects IN Controlled Environments, used mostly in the UK.
Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM): A method of planning and managing projects emphasizing the resources (physical or human) required to complete them.
Hybrid Project Management: Combines components of different Project Management methodologies, and it’s flexible and customizable to adapt for the project’s needs.
- "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."