The Learning Sections Within Project Management
The popular PMI (Project Management Institute) arranges the management into 9 specific
Learning areas that are distributed over the project cycle in five process groups. Let us have a summarized view of them. You can see the more of this in the Project Management Body of Knowledge or PMBOK.
First is the Project Integration Management. It is the only learning section that contains processes in every group of projects. This helps all learning sections come into balance, for it makes all of them gather and each of them will contribute to the success of the project. Examples in this section are Develop Project Charter and Direct and Manage Project Execution.
Second is the Scope Management. It focuses on the scope of the project. This is how the scope is described and managed. It overlooks on the details which is needed and not needed in the project. By the time the scope is found, it is needed to arrange it from the most useful items for the current project to the ones, even though it can be a part of the project, can be delayed for a moment. Everytime the scope changes, the time and budget also changes. They always go together. But, this is also the source why projects fail or the schedule and budget over-runs, if you keep changing the scope, it delays everything. Define Scope and Collect Requirements are some of its processes.
Third is Time Management. Now this points on time and schedule. Some of its processes are Sequence Activities, Estimate Activity Resources and Control Schedule. Let us take the Estimate Activity Resources process job. It determines the number of people should be appointed for the project, appoint them which are primary and secondary resources, how quickly the duties given will be completed and how much it will cost.
Next is Cost Management. Based on the name of the process itself, this has to do with money and budgeting. Estimate Costs, Determine Budget and Control Costs are found in this section. This helps on fixing the particular costs for the project and examining where the project takes place in relation to cost and budgeting. But, it would be better if it will only cost less.
For the fifth: Project Quality Management. It assures that the project results a very productive output and keeps the quality that is declared in the project plan for quality. Some processes in this are Plan Quality and Perform Quality Assurance.
Sixth is the Project Human Resource Management. This section has these processes: Develop Human Resource Plan, Acquire Project Team, Develop Project Team and Manage Project Team. This process is quite focusing in the relationship between the project manager and his project team. This is important so that the project manager could easily designate tasks and fulfilling their goals with happiness and satisfaction.
Seventh is Project Communications Management. This process does keeping individuals updated about the projects whereabouts, place them to specific divisions and handle the anticipation of everyone involved within the project.
Eighth is the Project Risk Management. This process is essential and an important job of a project manager. He should be able, with the help of risk experts, to find those risks within the project to be able to solve it as soon as possible. Plan Risk Management and Identify Risks are two of them.
And lastly is Project Procurement Management. Procurements should be handled with complete care and planning. Process within this section is Plan Procurements, Conduct Procurements, Administer Procurements, and Close Procurements.
More detailed information about these processes is found in the PMBOK. You should be able to remember and memorize it. You could write them down in a paper before the exam so you won't be rumbling them over the other.
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by: John Reiling
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