DEFINITION OF

PROJECT
MANAGEMENT
PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Is a set of principles, methods, tools, and techniques

for the effective management of objective oriented
work in the contest of a specific and unique
organizational environment.
 The project management process encompasses
these tasks:

Assembling a project team with the expertise necessary to execute the

project
Establishing the technical objectives
Planning the project
Managing changes to the scope
Controlling the undertaking so that it is completed on schedule and within
budgets
Project management

Isan evolving disciplines that integrates the processes of

producing the end product with the processes of planning,
change management, control, and initiating preventive
and corrective action.it begins when the desired result has
been accomplished.
Project management is not designed for the
management and control of non project ,day-to-day
activities within the organization.
Responsibility for the day-to-day planning,
operations, and control of: be staff remains within the
functional manager and is accomplished with existing,
tools and techniques.
A science and an art

Project management is both a science and an art.it is perceived as

a science because it is supported by chart, graphs, mathematical
calculations, and other technical tools.
Producing these chart requires the hard skills to a manage a
project. but project management is also drive by political,
interpersonal, and organizational factors thus the “art” of project
management communication, negotiation, and conflict resolution
are only a few of the soft skills used in the art of project
management .
Characteristics of work using
project management
The word project is a buzzword. The tendency is to use it
very loosely.
People refer to the jobs the have been assigned to perform
as project. The secretary refer to cleaning out of file
cabinet and disposing of old outdated material as a project.
The youth refers to cleaning up his or her room as a
project. A spouse refer to wallpapering the bedrooms as a
project. These assignment, however- and other like them-
lack the characteristics that lend themselves to the
application of the work that has three major characteristics:
desired technical objective, a deadline , and a budget
1. Discrete technical objective

If knowledge of the end product service does not exist, it

is extremely difficult to produce plan. In thus
circumstance, some type of planning be possible, but
project plan.
Characteristics of project management.

budget deadline

Technical
objectives
2.deadline

The deadline can be established prior to the

development of the project plan, or it can be the result
of negotiation between the project manager and the
client after the plan has been conceived, in either case,
the project team ultimately work toward and designed
end date, with some consequence associated with any
delay in completion of the effort.
3. Budget

The budget can be in the form of dollars and/or staffing

required; it can be stablished prior to the development of
the project plan, or it can be result of negotiation between
the project manager and the client based on the plan.
Overview

In this book, we focus on several key project management

processes and model, chapter 2 thoroughly discusses the key
question the project manager must answer in the order to
initiate and define a project. A critical part of initiating and
defining a project is build the project team.
The foundation of all project Is the plan. Chapter 4 and 5
provide extensive coverage of project planning. Chapter 4
addresses in depth the process of planning a project, with
encompasses a five-step integrated planning model. The
specific techniques project planning are covered in chapter
5, which describes in detail how to work though the five-
step model though the use of chart, graph, mathematical
calculation, and validation techniques.
The project management environment is dynamic and
constantly in flux. Chapter 6 analyzes the typical
changes that take place project baseline schedules,
resources allocation, and budget. Our analysis also
includes a close look at the various sources of change
to the technical objectives of the project’s end product.