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Project Management

Summary

The project management is an important discipline that takes into account different steps taken by the mangers in completing their everyday projects. The project management explains different perspectives of the management that enhance the efficiency of the managers and makes them more effective at their work. The paper is focused on the book titled “Assessment of the Project Management in a week” by the author Mark Brown. The author has defined different concepts of the project management and has taken into account various perspective that help the readers in understand the critical areas of the management. The topics that have been covered within the book are based on various aspects. The literature on the project management practice is rich and controversial in term of the project constraints and best practices. The triple constraints principle in project management, presented in the previous section, is still valid today. The main objectives of any project are improvements in time, cost, and quality.

Introduction

The project management is an important discipline that takes into account different steps taken by the mangers in completing their everyday projects. The project management explains different perspectives of the management that enhance the efficiency of the managers and makes them more effective at their work. The paper is focused on the book titled “Assessment of the Project Management in a week” by the author Mark Brown. The author has defined different concepts of the project management and has taken into account various perspective that help the readers in understand the critical areas of the management. The topics that have been covered within the book are the nature of the projects on the various projects.

Discussion

There are different aspects of the project management that has been proved to be very useful for the managers for performing their daily functions of the management at their work.

Nature of the Projects

According to (Snyder & Parth, 2006) project management practices started to emerge in the 1950s. The United States Department of Defense was the first to use the project evaluation and review technique (PERT) in implementing one of its missiles projects. Around the same time the critical path method (CPM) was used in the construction industry to manage major projects such as building bridges and tunnels.

Both methods, PERT and CPM, were used to schedule tasks and resources in complex projects that deal with uncertainty in the project environments. Lechler, Ronen, and Stohr

(2005) found that both techniques focused on scheduling activities in a single project in a way that minimized the lead time. The ultimate goal of project management was implementing projects in the optimal timeframe, while considering the triple constraints of time, cost, and project scope.

Initiation of Project Management

The literature on the project management practice is rich and controversial in term of the project constraints and best practices. The triple constraints principle in project management, presented in the previous section, is still valid today. The main objective of any project is the improvements in time, cost, and quality (Angelides, 1999, ...