What is project management?

The role of management is to plan, organize and integrate resources with task to achieve the goals.

The activities can be classified in 5 sections:

• Organizing purpose

Its purpose is to manage a system of tasks.

The evolution:

The last 40 years we have witnessed amazing evolution in management thanks to the computers and the new technologies developed, thanks to this technologies managing a project is easier and faster.

Project administrations is applied in almost everything yo want.

When to use P.M:

Different from ordinary routine.

• Magnitude of effort:

When a job requires substantially more resources.

• Changing environment:

Industries such as computers.

• Reputation of the organization:

• Forms of Management

• System management

• Task force management

• Matrix management

• Basic project management

Pure project: a complete self-contained organization is created.

Matrix: the project is created from resources borrowed from the functional units. The projects must share its resources with other concurrent projects.

• New venture management:

A tem is created to find new products or services that fits an organization special skills, capabilities and resource. Once the product is defined they proceed to develop it.

• Product management:

Refers to a single person responsible for overseeing all aspects of a product’s production.

• Projects environment:

Commercial for profit project management

Government and nonprofit management

Military project management

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