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Course Contents
- Objectives and standards of Project Management (PM).
- Project management framework and the PM Body of Knowledge of the Project Management Institute (PMI) and other bodies.
- Scheduling, scope and human resources techniques applied to development projects.
- Communication and risk analysis techniques in development projects.
Objectives
- Training professionals in concepts, methodologies, techniques and tools
relating to Project Management internationally.
- Setting a common terminology about Project Management which allows a better
understanding of its stages.
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Learning Unit Summary
In this module we intend to provide general knowledge about Project
Management and to cover professionals’ needs for training in order to
achieve a higher level of internalization in projects.
A project presents the following key issues:
- It has one group of objectives and the project finishes once the
objectives are achieved.
- It is well limited in time.
- A manager or a project leader (Project Manager) is essential.
- It has its own material and budgetary means.
- It includes efforts of every company sector involved in the project.
After the analysis and study of the project, we have to study Project
Management issues in depth. According to PMBOK:
“Application of knowledge, methodologies, techniques and tools for project
activities, directed to satisfying your needs and expectations”. This
includes balancing the following:
- Scope, time, cost, risk and quality demands.
- Needs and expectations of the people involved in the project.
- Identified and unidentified needs.
Project Management presents the following Areas of knowledge according to
the PMBOK:
1. Integration.
2. Scope.
3. Time.
4. Costs.
5. Quality.
6. Human Resources.
7. Communications.
8. Risks.
9. Procurement.
There usually is a Strategic Plan, strategic management (or portfolio
management) and a programme (or policy), before you implementing the
procedures and processes of Project Management. The following scheme
describes the different stages in Strategic Project Management:
Roles must be correctly assigned and every team member must know which
his/her corresponding role is. For this purpose we normally use the
Responsibilities Assignation Matrix.
Project Management Processes can be grouped in five groups with
one or more processes included in each group. It relates to the common
techniques of Project Management Processes:
1. Initiation: approval of the project or a stage of it.
2. Planning: objectives and ongoing courses.
3. Execution: coordinating staff and other resources
4. Control & Monitoring: monitoring and corrective actions.
5. Closing: accepting and organizing an ordered final.
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