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The document provides an overview of project management, defining a project as a temporary endeavor aimed at creating a unique product or service. It outlines the roles of project managers, the importance of stakeholders, and the five project management process groups, along with ten essential knowledge areas. Additionally, it discusses factors contributing to project success and failure.

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The document provides an overview of project management, defining a project as a temporary endeavor aimed at creating a unique product or service. It outlines the roles of project managers, the importance of stakeholders, and the five project management process groups, along with ten essential knowledge areas. Additionally, it discusses factors contributing to project success and failure.

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‫ميحرلا نمحرلا هللا مسب‬

Project Management

Introduction
Tarig Ali ALmubarak Ali
Dept. of Surveying Eng.
Faculty of Eng.
Omdurman Islamic University

[email protected]
History
Introduction
WHAT IS A PROJECT?
To discuss project management, it is important to understand the concept of a
project. A project is “a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique
product, service, or result.”6 Operations, on the other hand, is work done in
organizations to sustain the business. Projects are different from operations in
that they end when their objectives have been reached or the project has been
terminated.
Examples of Projects
• Projects can be large or small and involve one person or thousands of people.
They can be done in one day or take years to complete. Examples of projects
include the following:
• A young couple hires a firm to design and build them a new house
• A retail store manager works with employees to display a new clothing line
• A college campus upgrades its technology infrastructure to provide wireless
Internet access
• A medical technology firm develops a device that connects to smart phone.
• A school implements new government standards for tracking student
achievement
• A group of musicians starts a company to help children develop their musical
talents
Examples of Projects
• A pharmaceutical company launches a new drug
• A television network develops a system to allow viewers to vote for contestants
and provide other feedback on programs
• The automobile industry develops standards for electric cars
• A government group develops a program to track child immunizations
Typical project constraints
WHAT IS PROJECT MANAGEMENT?

Project management is “the application of knowledge, skills, tools


and techniques to project activities to meet the project
requirements.”7 Project managers must not only strive to meet
specific scope, time, cost, and quality requirements of projects, they
must also facilitate the entire process to meet the needs and
expectations of the people involved in or affected by project
activities.
Project management framework
Project Stakeholders

Stakeholders are the people involved in or affected by


project activities and include the project sponsor, project
team, support staff, customers, users, suppliers, and even
opponents to the project. These stakeholders often have
very different needs and expectations. For example, there
are several stakeholders involved in a home construction
project.
Project Management Process Groups and
Knowledge Areas
The five project management process groups include initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing
activities. Chapter 3 provides more information on the process groups and how they relate to the ten project management
knowledge areas. Project management knowledge areas describe the key competencies that project managers must develop.
The center of Figure 1-3 shows the ten knowledge areas of project management. Project managers must have knowledge and
skills in all ten of these areas, briefly described as follows:
• Project integration management is an overarching function that coordinates the work of all other knowledge areas. It affects and is
affected by all of the other knowledge areas.
• Project scope management involves working with all appropriate stakeholders to define, gain written agreement for, and manage all the
work required to complete the project successfully.
• Project time management includes estimating how long it will take to complete the work, developing an acceptable project schedule given
cost-effective use of available resources, and ensuring timely completion of the project.
• Project cost management consists of preparing and managing the budget for the project.
• Project quality management ensures that the project will satisfy the stated or implied needs for which it was undertaken.
• Project human resource management is concerned with making effective use of the people involved with the project.
• Project communications management involves generating, collecting, disseminating, and storing project information.
• Project risk management includes identifying, analyzing, and responding to risks related to the project.
• Project procurement management involves acquiring or procuring goods and services for a project from outside the performing
organization.
Project Management Dimensions:-
• Technical
• Transactional
• Transformational
Life Cycle of a Failed Project
Why do Projects Fail?
Why do Project Manager Fail?
Project Success
Role of Project Manager (PM)
End Lecture (1)

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