COMINDWORK: Talk: Project Management Processes
As I wrote in my previous post every project is temporary and every project creates a unique product or service. This is achieved using various project management processes. A process or a methodology is created so that consistent standards and rules could be used; it serves as a reference point for everyone involved in project. As described in the PMBOK (Project Management Body of Knowledge Guide), there are nine main key processes (knowledge areas), I will just shortly describe each of them: - Project Integration Management ensures that all the project's components are coordinated. It includes the project plan development processes, project plan execution processes, and integrated change control processes.
- Project Scope Management ensures that the project includes ONLY the work that is required to complete the project successfully. Define the scope wisely, it's a good practice to include not only what is within the scope, but what's excluded from the scope as well.
- Project Time Management includes the processes that ensure the timely completion of the project - definition, sequencing, resource estimation, duration estimating, schedule development, schedule control. It is clear that successful time management is crucial for project success.
- Project Cost Management processes control the financial situation around the project (planning, estimating, budgeting and controlling) so that it can be completed within the project budget.
- Project Quality Management aim is to ensure that quality conforms to the project requirements. Quality management includes quality planning, quality assurance, quality control and quality improvement techniques and tools.
- Project Human Resource Management is all about making the most effective use of people. Human resource planning and the formation, development and management of the project team are all part of the Human Resources Management.
- Project Communications Management provides a link between information, people and ideas throughout the project lifecycle. The processes: communication planning, information distribution, performance reporting, manage stakeholders. The bigger the project, the more crucial influence communications management has on the output of the project.
- Project Risk Management includes risk management planning, identification, analysis, responses, monitoring and control. Often this term tends to be misleading; Risk Management must be seen as preparation for possible events in advance, rather then simply reacting to them as they appear.
- Project Procurement Management covers everything needed from outside the project team for a successful work: planning purchases or acquisitions, planning contracting, requesting seller responses, contract administrations. Negotiation skill is very useful here.
People need processes and methodologies for effectiveness, but methodologies and processes change during time, when the basic business premise never changes: do the right thing right the first time, on time and within budget. And I hope that our project management software helps you reaching this. Come back for more :)
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