Principles of Project Management

1) Performance: One has to ask themselves during a project if you have met the objectives of the project. Performance can be measured by evaluating the processes such as scope verification, quality planning, quality assurance, and quality control. The initial performance goals should be outlined in the initial Scope of Work.

Scope creep can be caused by changes that are external to the company, such as new safety legislations, changes in regulatory and certification, market, or even change in technology being utilized. As these external changes occur, new project estimates must be planned and since these changes can affect multiple aspects of a project, the project scope changes. However, these changes may occur at any time during the project life cycle and it may be possible that the relevant team responsible for estimation are no longer with the project. Project Managers must ensure to plan for this risk, and must have the necessary data and expertise available at all times to create the new control estimate.

b) What phase is the Project Scope produced? What are some of the items contained in this document?

In Business, project management is used regularly to accomplish unique outcomes with limited resources under critical time constraints. There has been a rapid increase in the number of firms that use project management methodologies as the preferred way of accomplishing almost every business undertaking. There are a number of approaches to managing project activities and in project management these approaches are referred to as methodologies. This paper attempts to explore the many different methodologies in project management and allow the reader to determine the best approach for their organization.

Whatever the reasons, scope creep affects one or more of the 3 project objectives –Time, Cost and Quality. Therefore scope creep and its impact to the project objectives need to be managed i.e assessed, risks evaluated and the change formally approved by the appropriate stakeholders. Changes to the projects are, at many a time inevitable, therefore rather than preventing changes the project manager need to manage the change effectively by proper change management process.

There are many project management tools available to you. Choose five from the following list and describe the pros and cons of each of the five:

There is a triple constraint basically demonstrates in pictorial fashion, the key attributes that must be handled effectively for successful completion and closure of any project. For thoroughness, the key attributes of the Triple Constraint are itemized as follows:

At the strategic level the project needs to be closely integrated with the clients business and the project objectives set accordingly.

1.a. Explain the principles of project management. Do you think these principles were followed in the given project?

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Uncontrolled scope changes are known as scope creep, which mostly occurs during project execution, which often result in rework, cost overrun and failure to deliver projects on time (Jordan, 2010).

This guide has been produced to offer assistance to those responsible for, or involved in, educational projects related to language education. It is hoped that it will be of help specifically to participants in ECML workshops and other activities, but also on a much wider scale to those undertaking projects in other contexts. It is the result of a preparatory study and a workshop in Graz on “innovatory approaches to language education” held in November 1999 and two regional workshops held in Budapest and Liechtenstein in 2000. Many of the ideas in it come from the facilitators and participants in these workshops. Frank Heyworth

1) Providing specification of actions at various stages of the process and for various functions.

There are several argument that the failure of project may be caused by the lack of project management while other belief that it is because “an organization did not focus sufficiently on the people aspects of the project” (Change first, 2009). In fact, the project management is the application of processes, methods, knowledge, skills and experience to achieve the project objectives (APM), coupled with the definition by MSP, “the programme management provides a framework that integrates and reconciles competing demands for resources, providing a context and control framework for the project of the program” and “can help organizations avoid the pitfalls and achieve their goals”. However, the other research examined that although the project management provides a means to bridge gap between project delivery and organizational strategy, it is facing some concerns , and lead to the demand of changing business management (Lycett et al., 2004). The APM confirmed that disciplined delivery methods are necessary to managing benefits of project, it is not sufficient to ensure benefits realization. This requires the effective planning for changing, the engagement of stakeholders throughout the business change, the change in behaviour and the ability to maintain a business change. So, the change management is significant important to the overcome the project failure by adopt some standards approach. By analysing the model of Kotter process, the role of change

We will beat the competition because I have unique skills in that I am both an excellent project manager and an excellent teacher. (I have the awards to prove it!) In addition, I recognize that most people who want to obtain this certification do not have time to sit through a 35 hour class nor want to sit through 35 hours of video instruction. Therefore, I break the concepts down into microlearning bites that are interactive and entertaining and add gamification learning to the process.