what is a project management?

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what is a project management?..

Answer / hardik

Project management is the discipline of planning,
organizing and managing resources to bring about the
successful completion of specific project goals and
objectives.

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what is a project management?..

Answer / pramod pudur

Project Management is the application of knowledge, skills,
tools and techniques to project the activities to meet the
project requirements.
Project management is accomplished through the appropriate
application and integration of 42 logically grouped project
management processes comprising of 5 process groups
(Initiation, Planning, Execution, Monitoring and Control
and Closing)

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what is a project management?..

Answer / ganga reddy

Project management is planning & monitoring the task as
per the requriemts and make them complete on time and with
in budget to get desired results.it plays a major role in
organisation build.

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what is a project management?..

Answer / sanjay

In theory Project Management is all about initiating,
planning, monitoring, tracking and taking the project to
closure with a desired quality, within budget and in pre-
defined timeline.
In reality, it is all about negotiation, controlling scope
creeps, prioritising and ensuring clear communication
across various stake holders, thereby maintaining the
balance among 3 keys: quality, cost and time.

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what is a project management?..

Answer / harish

Project Management is a set of necessary activities
performed to ensure that all the project objectives are met
within the defined parameters of cost, quality and schedule.

It would include everything from starting to executing to
controlling to winding up of the project requiring the
project manager to take care of other parameters like
resource mix, profitability, stake holder communication,
knowledge build up and retention.

As a project manager you might enter a project at any of the
above mentioned phases and exit it at one of the above
stages, but the activities you would need to perform would
be more or less as defined in the above paras.

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what is a project management?..

Answer / narayanamurthy

In Simple words it is PDCA(Plan,Do,Check & Act) in the
areas of SSC(Scope,Schedule & Cost Management).

You can find sub-areas for SSC

Which in turn links to

1.Resource Management
2.Communication Management
3.Quality Management
4.Risk Management
5.Change Management
....

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what is a project management?..

Answer / nilesh shinde

Project Management can be accomplished by following
oraganisational accepted methodlogy (PMBOK / Prince2) to
deliver project in controlled manner (within set budget
time and quality).

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what is a project management?..

Answer / rekha

Project Management is the application of knowledge,skills,
tools and techniques to meet project objectives.

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what is a project management?..

Answer / jaikumar d

Project management is a methodical approach to planning and
guiding project processes from start to finish. According to
the Project Management Institute, the processes are guided
through five stages: initiation, planning, executing,
controlling, and closing.

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what is a project management?..

Answer / guest

Project management means to handle a project within that
duration with that estimated amount.

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