Challenges Of Managing Project Knowledge

What is the pressing need to have project management in IT projects? Two out of the three IT projects fail to make the final cut. [1] This article not only elucidates the need for an appropriate project management team but also puts forth what can go wrong if the organization is oblivious to the project management processes. About 88% of the classic mistakes are categorized as either people or process mistakes. Some common mistakes being poor estimation and scheduling, ineffective stakeholder management, and insufficient risk management. [2] The article also highlights the meta-retrospective of 99 IT projects and their analysis for project management making it clear how such aggregation of retrospective findings point out most common mistakes and help adopt best practices for effective project management.

Over my career, I’ve been involved in a many projects such as the acceptance of new electric rail cars to the development of a computerize maintenance management system. These projects involved dozens people, crossed department lines and spanned many months from their conception to their implementation. While most of what I learned was acquired during the project, I attended a project management course that was offered by my company’s training and development department. Whether serving as a team member or project leader, I’ve gained many insights into the process of project management.

Projects can harness the energy of different thought processes to propel innovation and change in an organization (Leonard and Straus, 1997). According to Hammer

A Methodology is a model which the managers employ in the design, implementation and achievement of their project objectives. It contains the guidelines required for managing a project.

Learning is a never-ending process, be it learning new skills or learning more about a new business domain. Gradually, you will gain more knowledge about the business and as and when you are assigned to projects, you can always get more details and discover the specific business needs driving the initiative and key objectives to be delivered by the project.

Project Management Institute. (2000). _A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (4th ed.)._

applying the body of knowledge to large-scale projects gives the project manager the necessary skills to cope

In this paper, I, a student of University of Phoenix will explain and discuss project management. I will address three main points. I will first answer what is a project. Secondly, I will discuss what are the basic phases of the project lifecycle and their purpose. Finally, I will explain why it 's important for organizations to use project management to accomplish tasks.

6) notes that uncertainty and change are usually involved in projects. The reason for using projects as a work approach is often the ability coping with uncertainty, related to novel factors within the processes or context of the company or the goals that need to be reached. Kuura et al. (2014, p. 518) note that projects are connected to innovation and have always been used to create or deal with change, even though not all projects and SMEs are entrepreneurial. Projects have been promoted as a powerful, widely usable vehicle for integrating diverse functions, enabling the efficient, timely and effective accomplishment of goals, by using flexible, independent and knowledgeable people in temporary teams (Lindgren & Packendorff, 2011, p. 52). Projects are used to cope with risks and it has been stated that if a company does not fail in any projects, it is not taking enough business risks (Cooke-Davies in Morris & Pinto, 2007, p. 227). Maylor (2010, p. 6) also adds that projects are usually also social constructs with parts that are integrated within the project to create a system of

This briefing paper will address the question of how current project teams within the organization can work more collaboratively and effectively. Due to the number of recent failed projects, the organization is currently looking into how project teams are set up and managed. The issue, given the circumstances, revolves around how to equip managers, team leaders, and members with the skills and support to progress from project teams to high performing project teams in order to deliver the much-needed results in their respective units. This is an interesting issue in light of the fact several departments already have teams set up to carry out special projects without any formal process or best practice in place. This brief

This paper is designed to analyze some of the Lessons Learned and documented at project closeout phase. These analysis are based on the post implementation review and final review at completion of the project. Whether we are managing the upgrading or installations of a very small information technology (IT) system, or supervising a very large and complex construction project, there will definitely be some important lessons that we can all learn from these projects, even some projects that seems to be the most successful and trouble free have lessons from which we can all learn from. An effective Project Manager documents all the lessons learned from his project, analyzes them and applies all outcome of the lessons to future projects throughout the entire organization, this is because ability to review your project in addition to the outcome of Lessons Learned provides a very insightful and meaningful input to the success of future projects.

It has been proven through industry research that successful IS project implementation and deployment consists of measurable project performance factors that have wide-spread impact on an organizations business goals and IS investment objectives. Taking a holistic approach to the application of effective and proven project management principles can ensure success to entirety and not just from a fragmented perspective.

Within the Army organizations of today knowledge management plays a huge role in the dissemination of information to the unit and it’s soldiers. This is no different for the aviation unit in which I operate. This information can be found in FM 6-01.1, Knowledge Management Operations. It defines knowledge management as the process of enabling knowledge flow to enhance shared understanding, learning, and decision-making. But when the unit was surveyed about their understanding of knowledge management the results were surprising.

The purpose of this paper is to recommend that Project Management is a concept that focuses on the dynamic characteristics of a multi-facetted organization. In such a changing situation, effective communication is a characteristic that should be stressed and becomes the most important tool for the project manager and team members.

This study discuss factors influence project context and progress in environment and also highlighted that, communication is an important issues when conducted projects in a environment with different work culture, a multiple players that has large scale project having their own smaller size, but full scale project covers wider particular area, involves organisational finances and capabilities that is beyond the capacity of one organisation which are called project of projects. Therefore the beginning of development and implementation of such project are not appropriately considered and communicated to the stakeholders, in one hand this can carry on host of developing change in the