- "Project management is the process of leading the work of a team to achieve all project goals within the given constraints."
The planning, execution, and monitoring of museum exhibitions and programming, including the management of budgets, resources, timelines, and stakeholder relationships.
Project Scope: This involves defining the overall goals, objectives and deliverables of the project.
Project Planning: This involves developing a detailed project plan that outlines the actions, timeframes and resources required to achieve the project goals.
Project Scheduling: This is the process of determining the sequence and duration of tasks in the project plan.
Budgeting: This involves establishing a budget for the project, and monitoring actual costs against the planned budget.
Project team Management: This involves selecting and managing the project team, allocating roles and responsibilities and monitoring performance.
Communication and Stakeholder Management: This involves identifying and engaging with key stakeholders, establishing communication channels and managing stakeholder expectations.
Risk Management: This involves identifying and assessing project risks, developing strategies to manage those risks and implementing those strategies.
Quality Management: This involves developing quality standards, monitoring and controlling quality, and ensuring compliance with those standards.
Procurement Management: This involves identifying the goods and services required for the project, selecting suppliers and managing the procurement process.
Change Management: This involves managing changes to the project plan, assessing the impact of those changes and implementing them.
Sustainability: This involves considering the environmental, social and economic impacts of the project.
Project Evaluation: This involves assessing the success of the project against the original goals and objectives, and identifying areas for improvement in future projects.
Traditional Project Management: The most common type of project management used for museum exhibitions and programming, it follows a structured approach of initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, and closing the project.
Agile Project Management: An iterative and flexible approach to project management where the team works collaboratively and adapts to changing requirements, making it suitable for museum exhibitions and programming.
Scrum Project Management: A subset of Agile, it is more focused on product development and prioritizing tasks, making it suitable for smaller museum exhibitions or programming projects.
Lean Project Management: A methodology that seeks to identify and eliminate waste or any activity that does not add value to the project, making it suitable for museum exhibitions and programming with tight budgets.
Waterfall Project Management: A linear approach to project management, where each stage is completed before moving to the next, it works well for museum exhibitions and programming projects with well-defined requirements.
PRINCE2 Project Management: A structured method for effective project management that covers the core principles, themes, and processes of project management, making it suitable for complex museum exhibitions and programming.
Six Sigma Project Management: A process-improvement methodology that focuses on eliminating defects or errors, making it suitable for museum exhibitions and programming that require high levels of accuracy and quality.
Critical Chain Project Management: A method that focuses on identifying and managing project constraints, making it suitable for museum exhibitions and programming projects with limited resources or time constraints.
Event Chain Methodology: A method that focuses on identifying and managing risks associated with project events, making it suitable for museum exhibitions and programming with high levels of uncertainty.
Benefits Realization Management: A method that focuses on measuring and maximizing the value of the project’s benefits, making it suitable for museum exhibitions and programming with clear objectives and outcomes.
- "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."