A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge

“Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of the men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.” General George S. Patton. Cavalry Journal. September, 1933. The above words have given me the motivation to wake up every morning and to make the world a better place. I awaken I know that America’s warfighters have a constant need for new and improved equipment and training so they have a fighting edge against all enemies both foreign and domestic. Every day I continually try to improve my expertise in one subject or another since knowledge and wisdom are what sets leaders apart from followers. The more I learn the better leader I will become. There have been several points in my life where I have been a leader while serving in the military. Warfighters depended on me to make sure they were returned to their families without loss of life or limb. These soldiers depended on me to train them on the equipment and weapons they were going to use in a wartime environment. This duty of training and looking after these warfighters was an honor and I still keep in touch with those warfighters. I wanted to continue to assist the warfighters one way or another…

Enterprise resources management (ERM) system. A system that contains all of the processes of human resource management, decision support applications, distribution, maintenance support, quality and regulatory control, and health and safety compliance into a single system (Wallace, 1985). Information technology (IT). A term that relates to the use of hardware and software for purposes of transmitting and receiving information (Wideman, 2002). Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK). An…

Reflective Writing 1. The Relative Importance of Knowledge Areas In project management, usually nine knowledge areas are considered to be crucial to project success. These areas are time, scope, integration, human resources, cost, communications, risk, procurement and quality. It has been observed that influence of each of these knowledge areas on project success vary greatly among industries. In class, we analysed and discussed several specific case studies handpicked from a list of case…

Q1. Ans Project methodology is a method used in the project for the successfully completion of project by the proper utilization of money, time and resources. According to Jason Charvat, A collection of methods, procedures, and standards that define a synthesis of engineering and management approaches designed to deliver a product, service, or solution for project completion is project methodology. A methodology is a set of guidelines or principles that can be tailored and applied to a…

Fulfilling this Knowledge Area ensures that the project manager has an understanding of all the work or tasks the project entails. It can be further refined by having other opinions of the task lists from a quantifiable description of the project. Knowing most of the tasks at an early stage usually highlights and triggers changes that would need to be made before resources are wasted on them. One of the downfalls of the project is the Top Down approach when considering workloads. The DPA’s IT…

PERSONALITY ATTRIBUTES AND MANAGING PROJECTS Project managers in modern organizations are both leaders and followers, operating in a culture where both formal and informal networking relationship. They have three fundamental roles: an interpersonal role, which includes figurehead; an informational role, which entails disseminating information and acting as a spokesperson and a decision-maker role, to ensure that these traits are all in one, “project managers have come under study to help ensure…

1. Role of project manager on construction projects A project manager is someone who capable of managing the project professionally. Project manager has various responsibilities in a project such as time managing, organizing, planning etc. The role of project manager in a construction project doesn’t confined to a single task, he have different role at the same time. For example he is the one who plan and execute the whole work as per the project requirement in accordance with client’s…

SYNOPSIS ON “STUDY OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT LIFE CYCLE AND ROLE OF PROJECT MANAGER” (A CASE STUDY OF DELOITTE, GURGAON) UNDER SUPERVISION OF: ……………………….. SUBMITTED BY SANDEEP GUPTA ENROLLMENT NO : …………. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for qualifying MBA In IT INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY CENTRE FOR DISTANCE LEARNING GHAZIABAD 2016 1. TITLE OF THE PROJECT “STUDY OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT LIFE CYCLE AND ROLE OF PROJECT MANAGER” (A…

Q1 GOVERNANCE Evaluate project governance guidelines (such as AS8016 and 6Q Governance™) to determine whether they have more potential to overcome the problem of IT project failure than project management methodologies (such as PMBOK and PRINCE2). Over the last three decades, coping with large information technology(IT) projects has been a difficult and important problem for both practitioners and academic researchers(Ika 2009, Toomey,2009:Weill & Ross,2004:Bekker & Steyn 2009). Research…

deals with AIS’s impacts related to ecology and biodiversity, with many more recent research endeavors focused on the anthropocentric impacts such as property damage and the creation of barriers to use. As the amount of significantly harmful invasions increases, potentially due to various global changes, a need research and management focused on the control invasive species has increased significantly (Pysek, 2010). The state of Florida is dealing with one particularly impactful AIS known as…