1. What is Project Management?
Project : A group of milestones or phases,
activities or tasks that support an effort to
accomplish something
Management : is the process of Planning,
Organizing, Controlling and Measuring
2. Project...
A collection of linked activities, carried
out in an organised manner,with a
clearly defined START POINT and END
POINT to achieve some specific results
desired to satisfy the needs of the
organisation at the current time
3. Project Management
A dynamic process that utilises the
appropriate resources of the
organisation in a controlled and
structured manner, to achieve some
clearly defined objectives identified as
needs.
It is always conducted within a defined
set of constraints
4. What does Project
Management Entail?
Planning: is the most critical and gets the least
amount of our time
Beginning with the End in mind-Stephen Covey
Organizing: Orderly fashion
(Contingent/Prerequisites)
Controlling: is critical if we are to use our
limited resources wisely
Measuring: To determine if we
accomplished the goal or met the target?
5. Measuring…….
Are we efficient?
Are we productive?
Are we doing a good job?
What is the outcome?
Is it what we wanted to be?
If you can’t plan it, You can’t do it
If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it
6. Who uses Project Management?
Nearly Everyone to some degree
People plan their Days, their Weeks, their
Vacations and their Budgets and keep a
simple project management form known
as ‘’To Do’’ list
Any Process or Means used to track tasks
or efforts towards accomplishing a goal
could be considered Project Management
7. Why is Project Management
used?
It is necessary to Track or Measure the
progress we have achieved towards a
Goal we wish to accomplish
We use Project Management to Aid us in
Maximizing and Optimizing our
resources to accomplish our goals
8. How much time does
Project Management take?
Not much. Probably more time is wasted
as a consequence of lack of Project
Management tool than is spent to Plan
adequately, Organize, Control effectively
and Measure appropriately
How long: As long as there are things to
do
9. Why is Project Management
Important?
Enables us to map out a course of
action or work plan
Helps us to think systematically and
thoroughly
Unique Task
Specific Objective
Variety of Resources
Time bound
10. Advantages
In built Monitoring/ Sequencing
Easy and Early identification of Bottlenecks
Activity based costing
Identification and Addition of missing and new
activities
Preempting unnecessary activity/expenditure
Timely Completion
Assigning tasks
Reporting
11. Road to Better Project Management
Find a Project plan that fits your style of
project management needs
It may be as simple as creating templates,
forms and spreadsheets to track tasks
Formation of a Project Management
committee
Listing out all the tasks and sub-tasks to
accomplish a goal
Jot down the time period and person
responsible against each task/sub-task
12. Identify a Project Manager
Identify Task Managers
Sequence the activities in relation
to time period
Present to the PMC
Finalize by reaching an agreement
and start work…...
Road to Better Project Management
