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Introduction
Project management is the process of leading the work of a team to

achieve all project goals within the given constraints. This information is

usually described in project documentation, created at the beginning of

the development process. 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-de ined objectives.

The objective of project management is to produce a complete project

which complies with the client's objectives. In many cases, the objective

of project management is also to shape or reform the client's brief to

feasibly address the client's objectives. Once the client's objectives are

clearly established they should in uence all decisions made by other

people involved in the project – for example, project managers,

designers, contractors, and sub-contractors. Ill-de ined 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 de ined beginning and end (usually

time-constrained, and often constrained by funding or staf ing)

undertaken to meet unique goals and objectives, typically to bring about

bene icial change or added value. The temporary nature of projects

stands in contrast with business as usual (or operations), which are

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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.

As a discipline, project management developed from several ields of

application including civil construction, engineering, and heavy defense

activity. Two forefathers of project management are Henry Gantt, called

the father of planning and control techniques, who is famous for his use

of the Gantt chart as a project management tool and Henri Fayol for his

creation of the ive management functions that form the foundation of

the body of knowledge associated with project and program

management. Both Gantt and Fayol were students of Frederick Winslow

Taylor's theories of scienti ic management. His work is the forerunner to

modern project management tools including work breakdown structure

(WBS) and resource allocation.

Project management methods can be applied to any project. It is often

tailored to a speci ic type of project based on project size, nature,

industry or sector. For example, the construction industry, which focuses

on the delivery of things like buildings, roads, and bridges, has developed

its own specialized form of project management that it refers to as

construction

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project management and in which project managers can become trained

and certi ied. The information technology industry has also evolved to

develop its own form of project management that is referred to as IT

project management and which specializes in the delivery of technical

assets and services that are required to pass through various lifecycle

phases such as planning, design, development, testing, and deployment.

Biotechnology project management focuses on the intricacies of

biotechnology research and development. Localization project

management includes application of many standard project

management practices to translation works even though many consider

this type of management to be a very di erent discipline. There is public

project management that covers all public works by the government

which can be carried out by the government agencies or contracted out

to contractors. Another classi ication of project management is based on

the hard (physical) or soft (non-physical) type.

Common among all the project management types is that they focus on

three important goals: time, quality, and cost. Successful projects are

completed on schedule, within budget, and according to previously

agreed quality standards i.e. meeting the Iron Triangle or Triple

Constraint in order for projects to be considered a success or failure.

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For each type of project management, project managers develop and

utilize repeatable templates that are speci ic to the industry they're

dealing with. This allows project plans to become very thorough and

highly repeatable, with the speci ic intent to increase quality, lower

delivery costs, and lower time to deliver project results.

Project Manager
A project manager is a professional in the ield of project management.

Project managers are in charge of the people in a project. People are the

key to any successful project. Without the correct people in the right

place and at the right time a project cannot be successful. Project

managers can have the responsibility of the planning, execution,

controlling, and closing of any project typically relating to the

construction industry, engineering, architecture, computing, and

telecommunications. Many other ields of production engineering,

design engineering, and heavy industrial have project managers.

A project manager needs to understand the order of execution of a

project to schedule the project correctly as well as the time necessary to

accomplish each individual task within the project. A project manager is

the person accountable for accomplishing the stated project objectives

on behalf of the client. Project Managers tend to have multiple years’

experience in their ield. A project manager is required to know the

project in and out while supervising the workers along with the project.

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Typically in most construction, engineering, architecture, and industrial

projects, a project manager has another manager working alongside of

them who is typically responsible for the execution of task on a daily

basis. This position in some cases is known as a superintendent. A

superintendent and project manager work hand in hand in completing

daily project task. Key project management responsibilities include

creating clear and attainable project objectives, building the project

requirements, and managing the triple constraint (now including more

constraints and calling it competing constraints) for projects, which is

cost, time, quality and scope for the irst three but about three additional

ones in current project management. A typical project is composed of a

team of workers who work under the project manager to complete the

assignment within the time and budget targets. A project manager

normally reports directly to someone of higher stature on the

completion and success of the project.

A project manager is often a client representative and has to determine

and implement the exact needs of the client, based on knowledge of the

irm they are representing. The ability to adapt to the various internal

procedures of the contracting party, and to form close links with the

nominated representatives, is essential in ensuring that the key issues of

cost, time, quality and above all, client satisfaction, can be realized.

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PROJECT MANAGEMENT STUDY MATERIAL

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11. Project Management Plan- The 12 https://www.projectengineer.ne...

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PROFILE
Dr. Roopali Srivastava has 20+ years of academia

and industrial experience in Project Management.

She is an accomplished trainer and faculty advisor.

She conducts standardized as well as customized

training in Project Management and Strategic

Management for various verticals, dealing with clients across UK/Europe

and Asia Paci ic, and has trained more than 5000 project managers. 

Dr. Roopali is a Certi ied Project Management Professional (PMI), Certi ied

Advanced Business Strategy, Certi ied Siebel 7.7 Business Analyst;

Certi ied Prince2 Foundation (APMG, UK) and has earned PMI - Agile

Hybrid Project Pro Micro-Credential in 2021. She holds Doctorate in

Micro-Electronics from the Indian Institute of Technology – Banaras

Hindu University, Varanasi, India. Dr. Roopali has been awarded "PMI

2021 Volunteer Certi icate of Appreciation”. She is actively involved with

various initiatives undertaken by PMI India and PMI Mumbai chapter. 

Dr. Roopali  has several publications in National and International

Conferences, peer-reviewed journals, and has written case studies for

the Government of Gujarat and the Government of Madhya Pradesh in

collaboration with PMI, India. 

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Dr. Roopali is associated with Tata Projects Limited, India; Larsen and

Toubro – Institute of Project Management; PPDC MSME, Ministry of Small

and Medium Enterprises; Life Insurance Corporation of India –

Management Development Centre; and Vodafone

Dr. Roopali  designs and develops Project Management Courseware as per

client requirements. Some of the topics include PMP certi ication

preparatory course, Project Concepts & Frameworks, Project

Management approaches, Requirement Engineering, Project Life cycle,

Project Planning, and Scheduling, Estimating and Budgeting, Project

quality, Project Risk and Monitoring and controlling project. 

At present, Dr. Roopali Srivastava is a faculty of, Project Management,

Operations Management, and Strategic Management in the ICFAI

Business School, Mumbai, India. She has trained more than 500

management students on Project Management.

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