PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Project management

Project management - training department

Introduction

Project management has been identified as one of the hottest fields for the future. Expansion of the project discipline - and increases in the number of industries recruiting people with these skills Project management skills are becoming a required core competency for growth and quality oriented organizations.

Project management is defined by PMBOK as ' the application of knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to project activities in order to meet stockholder's needs and expectations from a project'

Discussion

Project management is a carefully planned and organized effort to accomplish a specific (and usually) one-time effort, for example, construct a building or implement a new computer system. Project management includes developing a project plan, which includes defining project goals and objectives, specifying tasks or how goals will be achieved, what resources are need, and associating budgets and timelines for completion. It also includes implementing the project plan, along with careful controls to stay on the "critical path", that is, to ensure the plan is being managed according to plan. Project management usually follows major phases (with various titles for these phases), including feasibility study, project planning, implementation, evaluation and support/maintenance. (Program planning is usually of a broader scope than project planning, but not always.)

Project Planning and control

One of the most common sets of activities in the management is planning. Very simply put, planning is setting the direction for something and then working to ensure the system follows that direction. Systems have inputs, processes, outputs and outcomes.

Whether the system is an organization, department, business, project, etc., the process of planning includes planners working backwards through the system. They start from the results (outcomes and outputs) they prefer and work backwards through the system to identify the processes needed to produce the results. Then they identify what inputs (or resources) are needed to carry out the processes.

So a planning process is not only establishing what to be done but also give a highlight of how to do it. At our case in T&CD the mean purpose of the team was planning the project in a way the contractor later can do the right job, then track and control the project to meet the present objective.

So this planning went into steps that involve the entire team member The team evaluates the situation at PPD. The team discussed all the requirement needed for transferring all activities to the new ...