Change drives projects.
From a business perspective, the purpose of the project is to move an organization from one state to another, to achieve a certain goal.
The project takes the organization from the current state to the future state using unique and structured methodology.
Internal and external conditions affect the initiation of the project and the project team, the conditions that are under the control of the organization or outside of its control.
For example: market/customer requirements, changing socioeconomic conditions, improvement/streamlining of the organization, identification of opportunities/threatening risk in the market.
A project can be seen as a set of processes and activities carried out to achieve the project's goals' and is managed by the project manager whose main task is to plan and build a strategy adapted to the organization's goal and perform integration of the processes, areas of knowledge and activities throughout the project lifecycle to achieve the goal in the most efficient and effective way.
There are ten knowledge areas in project management:
INTEGRATION MANAGEMRNT mainly aims to control all processes and cohesive execution of the project in accordance with all project management processes.
SCOPE MANAGEMENT - mainly aims to define the boundaries of the work that will be delivered in the project and helps to protect this scope until the end of the project.
SCHEDULE MANAGEMENT - mainly aims to complete the project on time.
COST MANAGEMENT - targets to deliver the agreed scope based on the planned budget.
QUALITY MANAGEMENT - helps to ensure that the project meets its quality requirements.
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT - mainly aims to manage people and other resources of a project. conflict resolution, staff planning etc. However, there will be other tools, equipment and vehicles that will be used to complete the project.
COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT - ensures effective and efficient communication in the project.
Each stakeholder in the project requires a different set of information.
RISK MANAGEMENT - ensures to keep the up to date status of risks and their response strategies if those risks occur. Its main objective is being prepared for unexpected situations during the project.
PROCUREMENT MANAGEMENT - projects require purchasing or leasing of tools, equipment, resources or people.
STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT - aims to treat each stakeholder accordingly to meet the balance of stakeholder requirements in the project. Stakeholders are people, groups or institutions that might be effected positively or negatively from the outcome of the project are stakeholders.
Here are some of the the main leading methodologies:
Throughout our program, you’ll explore various enrichment activities for maximum skills-development.
The waterfall methodology is a linear project management approach, where stakeholder and customer requirements are gathered at the beginning of the project, and then a sequential project plan is created to accommodate those requirements. The waterfall model is so named because each phase of the project cascades into the next, following steadily down like a waterfall.
It’s a thorough, structured methodology and one that’s been around for a long time.
Disciplined Agile is a toolkit that focuses on the decisions you need to consider, the options available to you, and the trade-offs associated with these options.
It shows you how to effectively combine strategies from many other approaches in a tailorable and scalable manner.
Organizations that adopt Disciplined Agile go to market sooner, deliver value faster and make their customers happier.
Scrum is a framework for developing, delivering, and sustaining products in a complex environment, with an initial emphasis on software development, although it has been used in other fields including research, sales, marketing and advanced technologies.
Lean thinking is a transformational framework that aims to provide a new way to think about how to organize human activities to deliver more benefits to society and value to individuals while eliminating waste.
Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is a process used by the software industry to design, develop and test high quality software. The SDLC aims to produce a high-quality software that meets or exceeds customer expectations, reaches completion within times and cost estimates.
ITIL methodology is closely linked to the concept off IT Governance , determining access hierarchy, decision-making, and responsibilities, coupled with the greatest possible user and customer satisfaction, to achieve the organization's objectives.
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