‫اانپاقممدیپارک‬

Project Management (PM)

Lt Col Dr Yasir Ahmad
Department of Engineering Management
College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering (CEME)
MAKING A HOUSE
MAKING A HOUSE

Land
Money
Design
Architect
Labor
Material
Meetings
Phone calls
Authority offices People Bills Compromises
Timeline Effort Overtimes Visits
Transportation Risks Wastages Skirmishes
 TWO QUESTIONS??

What is Project Management Why Project Management

(PM) ? for me ?
LETS ANSWER
FIRST
QUESTION….
PROJECTS ARE
AND PROJECTS HAVE
BEEN SINCE LONG…
WHAT IS A PROJECT?

A planned piece of
work that is designed
to find information
about something, to
produce something
new, or to improve
something
IN A NUTSHELL PROJECT HAS….

Start End

Group of
activities
 FOR SUCCESS
OF
PROJECTS
WE NEED TO HAVE
SPECIAL TRAINING
OF
Trying to manage a project without project
management is like trying to play a football
game without a game plan.
K. Tate (Past Board Member, PMI)
SO MANAGING PROJECT BECOMES
A
LETS TALK IN TERMS OF A
REFERENCE
5 Process Groups
10 Knowledge Areas
49 Processes
PROJECT MANAGER
 PROCESS GROUPS IN PM

1. Initiating
2. Planning
3. Executing
4. Monitoring and Controlling
5. Closing
PM PROCESS GROUPS

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2
1 5
3
P RO C ES S G RO U P S I N T E R A C T I O N
THE IRON TRIANGLE

Scope

Quality
Cost Schedule
LETS LOOK A
LITTLE
DEEPER
TOOLS ENHANCE OUR
CAPABILITY
 GOOD TO REMEMBER FOR ALL
PROCESSES

Tools &
Inputs Outputs
Techniques

Use existing tools and techniques and develop new ones

 GOOD TO REMEMBER FOR ALL
PROCESSES

Tools &
Inputs Outputs
Techniques

From within and For within and

outside of outside of
knowledge area knowledge area
We can control something
only if
we can MEASURE it