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