- "Project management is the process of leading the work of a team to achieve all project goals within the given constraints."
Setting project timelines, identifying activities, dependencies, critical paths, and resources needed to complete the project on time.
Project planning: Understanding the components and objectives of project planning, such as outlining scope, goals, milestones and other critical aspects.
Defining project scope: Defining the work that needs to be completed and the deliverables that must be produced to accomplish the project successfully.
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS): Creation of hierarchical chart to organize the tasks required to complete a project.
Identifying tasks and activities: Breaking down the project into smaller tasks, identifying and sequencing the activities required to complete each task.
Network Diagram: Representation of the sequence of task activities required to complete a project.
Estimating project duration and effort: Analyzing each task, estimating effort, and determining the duration needed to complete a project.
Activity Resource Estimating: Estimating resources (people, equipment, materials) required for each activity.
Creating a project schedule: Assembling all inputs (task list, estimated duration, resource use) into a well-structured plan.
Baseline and tracking techniques: Determining and setting baseline for the schedule and tracking actual dates, resource use and progress on the planned delivery.
Schedule compression: Methods used to shorten the project schedule by performing actions such as fine-tuning task estimates and assessing resource availability.
Schedule contingency planning: Contingency planning techniques used to adjust the schedule when unforeseen events occur.
Project control and reporting: Activities around monitoring and measuring progress against the schedule and reporting deviations, overruns or delays.
Change management: Techniques for managing any changes occurring in the project schedule, including the impact assessment, documentation, and communication process to stakeholders.
Gantt Chart: A visual tool that provides a graphical representation of a project schedule, showing tasks, durations, and dependencies in a timeline format.
Critical Path Method (CPM): A technique that identifies the longest series of dependent activities that must be completed on time to ensure the project is completed on time.
Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT): A technique that uses a probabilistic approach to estimate project duration, taking into account uncertainties in activity durations.
Resource Leveling: A process of redistributing resources to resolve over-allocation or under-allocation of resources and balance the workload.
Agile Project Management: A flexible and iterative approach to project management that values customer satisfaction through continuous delivery of working software.
Iterative Project Management: Similar to Agile, this approach focuses on incremental delivery, but emphasizes more on the completion of predefined phases before moving on to the next.
Waterfall Project Management: A traditional project management approach where the project is divided into sequential phases starting from planning to closure.
Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM): A method that takes into account resource constraints, using buffers to protect against schedule slippages.
Earned Value Management (EVM): A technique that compares the actual project performance to the planned performance, using metrics like cost, time, and scope deviation.
Schedule Compression: A technique that shortens the project schedule by either adding more resources or reducing the duration of tasks while maintaining the scope of work.
- "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."