Overview of Project Management Knowledge Areas:
The project manager must have clear understanding of the process, activities and deliverables in managing project. It includes knowledge on how to use specific tools to bring about the expected product of each project management process. Here are the PMBoK and Prince2 definitions of the project management knowledge areas:
The PMBoK Definition :
1. Management of Integration
Describes the processes and activities that integrate the various elements of project management .
2. Management of Scope
Describes the processes involved in ascertaining that the project includes all the work required, and only the work required, to complete the project sucessfully.
3. Management of Time
Describes the processes concerning the timely completion of the project.
4. Management of Cost
Describes the processes involved in planning, estimating, budgeting, and controlling costs so that the project is completed within the approved budget.
5. Management of Quality
Describes the processes involved in assuring that the project will satisfy the objectives for which it was undertaken.
6. Management of Human Resource
Describes the processes that organize and manage the project team.
7. Management of Project Communications
Describes the processes concerning the timely and appropriate generation, collection, dissemination, storage and ultimate disposition of project information.
8. Management of Risk
Describes the processes concerned with conducting risk management on a project.
9. Management of Procurement Management
Describes the processes that purchase or acquire products, services or results, as well as contract management processes.
The Prince 2 Definition :
1. Business Case
The justification behind the project.
2. Organization
The way in which the personnel involved in the project are structured.
3. Plans
Documents describing what the project should accomplish, how the work should be carried out, when it should be carried out and by whom.
4. Control
The way in which the project manager and project board should exercise control over the project.
5. Management of Risk
The way in which the project should approach and manage risk. PRINCE2 defines a risk as uncertainty of outcome,
which may be either a positive opportunity or a negative threat. Once analyzed risks are managed where appropriate to remove, reduce the effect of a negative threat and to take advantage of positive opportunities.
6. Quality in a Project Environment
The way in which the project should ensure that a quality product is delivered.
7. Configuration Management
The way in which the project should ensure that a quality product is delivered.
8. Change Control
The way in which the project manages any changes to specification or scope of its products.
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