What is Project Management?
8-10 minutes
What is PMO in Project Management? Project management is the discipline of initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing the work of a team to achieve specific goals and meet specific success criteria.” – Wikipedia
Modern and effective project management techniques require skills that allow the seamless integration of best practice tools with good leadership and team management within an organisation for improving the likelihood of success of time-limited initiatives. These practices include establishing clear accountabilities, defining objectives and outcomes, establishing the scope, planning, monitoring, and reporting controls for project activities.
PMBOK in Project Management
Project Management has always been practiced informally, but began to emerge as a distinct profession in the mid-20th century. PMI published a manual entitled ” A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK ® Guide) ” is to identify the recurring elements for project management process. The complete Project Management Body of Knowledge includes proven traditional practices that are widely applied, as well as innovative emerging practices for the profession with widespread consensus as to their value and usefulness.
What is a Project in Project Management?
“Planned set of interrelated tasks to be executed over a fixed period and within certain cost and other limitations” – Business Dictionary.com
PMI describes: in Manual “A project is temporary in that it has a defined beginning and end in time, and therefore defined scope and resources. And a project is unique in that it is not a routine operation, but a specific set of operations designed to accomplish a singular goal. So a project team often includes people who don’t usually work together -sometimes from different organizations and across multiple geographies.”
The PRINCE2 manual describes “A management environment that is created for the purpose of delivering one or more business products according to a specified Business Case”, and additionally “A temporary organization that is needed to produce a unique and predefined outcome or result at a pre-specified time using predetermined resources”.
What is PMP?
Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is an industry recognized credential for project managers. PMP demonstrates the experience, education, skill and competency required to lead and direct projects.
Role of Project Manager
Project Manager is basically a person who handles, manages and ensures the timely delivery of the project. The role of a Project managers is served as the glue that helps keep projects and people to work together. They are responsible for planning, organizing, managing and executing projects from beginning to end. The project scope can vary from single pieces of collateral to multifaceted, multichannel marketing campaigns. Thus, the project manager’s role in a nutshell is the overall responsibility for the successful planning, execution, monitoring, control and closure of a project.