| Collective of Concepts to Better Understand your | | | | Anticipate that your team will learn something along the |
| Project Management [1011] | | | | way that can and should change what you have |
| Publishing Guidelines: You may publish my article in your | | | | promised and how you can deliver on your promises. |
| newsletter, on your website or in your print publication | | | | The core variables of the project management |
| provided you include the resource box at the end. | | | | process, namely: product scope, quality grade, |
| Notification would be appreciated but is not required. | | | | time-to-produce and total cost-at-completion must all |
| By S. Maurer | | | | be mutually consistent and attainable. |
| Project management knowledge and practices are | | | | Tracking progress on a project management should |
| best described in terms of their component processes. | | | | be a regular part of you daily routine, even if you have |
| These processes can be placed into five process | | | | other duties that require your attention. |
| groups (initiating, planning, executing, controlling and | | | | Formal methods of Project Management offer a |
| closing) and nine knowledge areas (project integration | | | | framework to manage this process, providing a series |
| management, project scope management, project | | | | of elements - templates and procedures - to manage |
| time management, project cost management, project | | | | the Project Management through its life cycle. |
| quality management, project human resource | | | | Balancing limited labor, materials, and other resources is |
| management, project communications management, | | | | a difficult task that earns a good Project Management |
| project risk management and project procurement | | | | top dollar. |
| management). | | | | The genesis of the project management life cycle |
| A Project Management Rule: Embrace uncertainty. | | | | process, in its most basic form, is to be found in the |
| Expect the unexpected. There is far more that we | | | | very term "project management" itself. A project has, |
| don't know and can't know than what we can | | | | by definition, a start and a finish. |
| anticipate. Be resilient to what life throws at you. | | | | |