Once the Human Resource manager for a client, a construction company, asked me “Mounir, I thought project management is only for construction but my friend is an HR manager in a jewelry company and she just attended the class your company did for them.”
The world of project management is quite wide these days. There are projects in different types of organizations, from a variety of industries, and are of varying size or classification. Should we manage them all the same way?
Over the last twenty years, the PMBOK® Guide has been evolving with the growth of project management. The guide grew from nine knowledge areas to ten, from thirty-seven processes to forty-seven and from less than 200 pages to more than 600 pages.
We all know about project management plan. Those who study PMBOK(r) Guide know about the management plans (project or stage) consists of subsidiary plans for scope, cost, quality and all other topics.
Are most projects single phase or multiple phases? We ask this question because we often hear: “I am working on an IT project” or “I am working on a construction project”. Is there such thing?
Now that we have been debating the questions on: Do the PMBOK® Guide process groups repeat or are they project phases? And How many charters are there on a project? What do you think about the following? How many management plans are there on a project?
Is there one charter on a project or more? Is there one management plan or more? What are the process groups and how are they different from project phases. Many questions related to the PMBOK® Guide. Now – how many charters are there on a project?
What is the future of project management? What is the best way to gain project management knowledge and competence? Are there opportunities for PM skills in business? These and other questions are the subject of this post.
In this post, we will keep it brief and focus on asking a few questions.
In the last article, we discussed an important topic that is close to my heart. The topic is: What is the best way of teaching youth project management skills?
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