ENGINEERING

PROJECT
MANAGEMENT
OTM-455
DR IQRA ASGHAR
FALL-2021
LECTURE 7 & 8

• Topics covered
• Project management knowledge areas
• What is project scope management ?
• Difference between product vs project scope
KNOWLEDGE AREAS OF PROJECT
MANAGEMENT

Knowledge areas are defined as the building

components of a project.

Where all project activities fall under one of these

components.
KNOWLEDGE AREAS
 PROJECT SCOPE MANAGEMENT

Clearly any action related to your project

scope,
Collecting requirements,
defining scope,
creating WBS,
verifying and controlling.
PROJECT TIME MANAGEMENT

• All processes related to managing

completion project time.
• Defining, sequence, estimating activities
& duration,
• developing and controlling your
schedule.
PROJECT TIME MANAGEMENT

• Here are the six sub-processes:

• Define activities
• Sequence activities
• Estimate the resources required
• Estimate the time required
• Develop a schedule
• Control schedule
PROJECT COST MANAGEMENT

Here are three main sub-processes involved in

project cost management.
• Estimating costs,
• determining budget
• controlling your costs.
 PROJECT QUALITY MANAGEMENT

• All activities which determine the

• quality policies, objectives and responsibilities.
• Perform quality assurance
• Perform quality control
 HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

• Includes all processes concerned with organizing, managing and

leading project’s team.
• Develop human resource plan
• Acquire project team
• Develop project team
• Manage project team
COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT

Includes all activities required to ensure timely and appropriate

generation, collection, distribution, storage, retrieval and ultimate
disposition of project information.
- Identify stakeholders
- Plan communications
- Distribute information
- Manage stakeholder expectations
- Report performance
 PROJECT RISK MANAGEMENT

All activities related to planning, identification, analysis, response planning

and monitoring and controlling them as well.
Plan risk management
Identify risks
Perform qualitative risk analysis
Perform quantitative risk analysis
Plan risk response
Monitor and control risks
 PROCUREMENT MANAGEMENT

All processes necessary to purchase or acquire

products, services or results needed from outside and
project team.
Plan procurements
Conduct procurements
Administer procurements
Closer procurements
STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT

• Identify stakeholders
• Plan stakeholder management
• Manage stakeholder engagement
• Control stakeholder engagement
 INTEGRATION MANAGEMENT

This is where you identify, define, combine and then coordinate any of your
processes and project
activities.
Develop Project Charter
Develop project management plan
Direct and manage project execution
Monitor and control work
Perform integrated change control
Close project or phase
PROJECT INTEGRATION MANAGEMENT

- Good project integration is not possible without good

teamwork. 
- It is the responsibility of project managers to make project
objectives clear and manage the inter-dependencies
effectively to complete projects successfully.
- Keep an eye on the obstacles and address them quickly
before the problem gets out of hand.
PM Process Group
PROJECT SCOPE MANAGEMENT
 PROJECT SCOPE MANAGEMENT

- Justification of a project (Detailed description of project and

what it will do)
- WBS (Dividing projects into smaller tasks)
- Acceptance criteria (Getting acceptance of project deliverables from
stakeholders)
Deliverables
Project exclusions
Constraints
Assumptions
PROJECT SCOPE

 Scope refers to all the work involved in creating the products of the project
and the processes used to create them

 A deliverable is a product produced as part of a project, such as hardware or

software, planning documents, or meeting minutes

 Project scope management includes the processes involved in defining,

documenting and controlling what is or is not included in a project
 PROJECT CHARTER

• The first project document which

will be produced is the Project
Charter,
• the formal document which authorizes
a project to go ahead and gives the
Project Manager the authority to
start assigning resources to the
project.
REQUIREMENT VS SCOPE

• “Requirement is a condition or capability that is required to be

present in a product, service or result to satisfy a contract or other
formally imposed specification.” – PMBOK® Guide

• “Project Scope is the work performed to deliver a product, service, or

result with the specified features and functions.” – PMBOK® Guide