what is a project management?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Answer / guest
Project management means to handle a project within that
duration with that estimated amount.
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What are the tools and techniques used in the Initiation process? A. Project selection criteria, historical information, expert judgment B. Project selection methods, historical information, expert judgment C. Project selection criteria, expert judgment D. Project selection methods, expert judgment
Which of the following is true regarding product descriptions? A. The product description is an output of the Initiation process. It describes the characteristics of the product or service. B. The product description is an output of the Initiation process. It describes the characteristics of the product or service and less detail in the early phases of the project. C. The product description is an input of the Initiation process. It describes the characteristics of the product or service and contains a lot of detail in the early phases of the project. D. The product description is an input of the Initiation process. It describes the characteristics of the product or service.
All of the following are true regarding the tools and techniques of Activity Sequencing except: A. GERT uses analogous methods. B. GERT allows for loops. C. GERT is a conditional diagramming method. D. GERT allows for conditional branches.
Why do you want to switch over from IT to management?
Which of the following is true regarding IRR? A. IRR assumes reinvestment at the cost of capital. B. IRR is the discount rate when NPV is greater than zero. C. IRR is a constrained optimization method. D. IRR is the discount rate when NPV is equal to zero. ?
You are the project manager for a web development project. You hold regular project status meetings and publish status reports on a timely basis. You know that communication is one of your most important functions. As such, all of the following are true except: A. Senders are responsible for sending clear, concise, complete messages. B. Receivers are responsible for understanding the message. C. Communication can be vertical or horizontal or both. D. Effective communication techniques include making eye contact, nodding, and asking clarifying questions.
Which of the following processes negotiates the sequence of award by rank ordering the proposals? A. Source Selection B. Solicitation C. Contract Administration D. Procurement
You are the project manager for a cable service provider. Your team members are amiable with each other and are careful to make project decisions jointly. Which of the following is true? A. They are in the smoothing stage of Team Development. B. They are in the norming stage of Team Development. C. They are in the forming stage of Team Development. D. They are in the forcing stage of Team Development.
You have been assigned to a project in which the objectives are to expand three miles of the north-south highway through your city by two lanes in each direction. You are in charge of the demolition phase of this project, and you report to the project manager in charge of this project. You have been hired on contract and will be released at the completion of the demolition phase. What type of organizational structure does this represent? A. Functional organization B. Weak matrix organization C. Projectized organization D. Balanced matrix organization
Intellectual property includes all of the following except: A. Software B. Patents C. Hardware D. Business processes
You are a project manager for Snow Fun, a chain of retail shops specializing in winter sports gear and clothing. You’ve been working on contract with Snow Fun and are ready to move on to your next assignment. The customer has signed off on the project, formal acceptance notices have been distributed, and project closure procedures have been performed. What type of project ending is this? A. Extinction B. Starvation C. Integration D. Addition
You are the project manager for an upcoming outdoor concert event. You're working on the procurement plan for the computer software program that will control the lighting and screen projections during the concert. You're comparing the cost of purchasing a software product to the cost of your company programmers writing a custom software program. You are engaged in which of the following? A. Procurement planning B. Sensitivity analysis C. Transference of risk D. Make or buy analysis