While project management skills are obviously important for project managers, interestingly the methods and tools that project managers’ use can be helpful for everyone. Project management is the discipline of planning, organizing, securing, and managing resources to achieve specific goals. Any task that requires some preparation to achieve a successful outcome will probably be done better by using a few project maagement methods somewhere in the process. Project management includes developing a project plan, which includes defining and confirming the project goals and objectives, identifying tasks and how goals will be achieved, quantifying the resources needed, and determining budgets and timelines for completion. Projects can be various shapes and sizes, from the small and straightforward to extremely large and highly complex. So project Planning might also include specifying milestones or deliverables to be produced, and timelines for achieving the objectives and milestones. In organizations and businesses, project management can be concerned with anything, particularly introducing or changing things, in any area or function, for example:
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People, staffing and management
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Products and services
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Materials, manufacturing and production
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It and communications
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Plant, vehicles, equipment
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Storage, distribution, logistics
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Buildings and premise
In software development, this approach is often known as the waterfall model i.e., one series of tasks after another in linear sequence. This becomes especially true as software development is often the realization of a new or novel product. In projects where requirements have not been finalized and can change, requirements management is used to develop an accurate and complete definition of the behavior of software that can serve as te basis for software development. While the terms may differ from industry to industry, the actual stages typically follow common steps to problem solving—"defining the problem, weighing options, choosing a path, implementation and evaluation."
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People, staffing and management
•
Products and services
•
Materials, manufacturing and production
•
It and communications
•
Plant, vehicles, equipment
•
Storage, distribution, logistics
•
Buildings and premise
In software development, this approach is often known as the waterfall model i.e., one series of tasks after another in linear sequence. This becomes especially true as software development is often the realization of a new or novel product. In projects where requirements have not been finalized and can change, requirements management is used to develop an accurate and complete definition of the behavior of software that can serve as te basis for software development. While the terms may differ from industry to industry, the actual stages typically follow common steps to problem solving—"defining the problem, weighing options, choosing a path, implementation and evaluation."
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