Sunday, July 4, 2010

Project Management- Chapter 1 ideas

Project management is a discipline- a set of methods, therories and techniques that have evolved to manage the complexities of work that is unique and temporary. Even as the discipline continues to evolve, it can claim a proven track record. Millions of projets around the globe routinely rely on the concepts found in this and other project management books.
Project management techniques cover a range of topics:
1. communicating with team members and stakeholders from project conception trhough completion
2. estimating the effort, cost, and the time will take to deliver a project, and evaluating whether the beefits of the project will justify the forecasted costs
3.rapidly building cohesive project teams that are highly productive even though team members have not worked together before
4.coordinating the actions of a diverse workforce, assembled specifically for a project, to achieve the goal for the lease pollisble expense and in a resonable time frame.
5. accounting for progress and prodctivity to provide accurate forecasts of project completion dates and budget amounts.
6. managing the varying staffing needs that result from constantly running multiple projects concurrently, all of which share a common pool of personnel.

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