- "Project management is the process of leading the work of a team to achieve all project goals within the given constraints."
Focus on managing and completing a project within a specific timeframe and budget.
Project Scope Management: Defining the boundaries of a project, including deliverables, requirements, milestones, and objectives.
Project Schedule Management: Setting project timelines, identifying activities, dependencies, critical paths, and resources needed to complete the project on time.
Project Cost Management: Developing a project budget, estimating costs, controlling finances, ensuring budget adherence, and maintaining profitability.
Project Quality Management: Ensuring the project meets customer expectations by setting quality requirements, defining quality standards, and monitoring performance.
Project Resource Management: Managing people, equipment, materials, and other resources by identifying their requirements, assigning tasks, and ensuring their availability at the right time and place.
Project Communication Management: Ensuring effective communication channels between project team members, stakeholders, and customers, and establishing guidelines for sharing project information.
Project Risk Management: Identifying potential project risks, developing contingency plans, and anticipating mitigation strategies.
Project Procurement Management: Identifying project needs and acquiring goods and services from outside sources, including negotiating terms, creating contracts, and performing vendor management.
Project Integration Management: Bringing together all of the project components into a coherent whole, including developing project plans, executing the plan, and controlling and monitoring project progress.
Project Stakeholder Management: Identifying and assessing project stakeholders, developing strategies for engaging with stakeholders, and mitigating stakeholder impact on project success.
Project Leadership and Team Management: Developing project team skills, facilitating collaboration and communication, and providing leadership and direction to ensure project success.
- "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."