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Ans:
(a) Project management is the discipline of planning,
organizing, and managing resources to bring about the
successful completion of specific project goals and
objectives. It is sometimes conflated with program
management, however technically a program is actually
a higher level construct: a group of related and somehow
interdependent projects.
• Time Management
• Cost Management
• Risk Management
• Contract Management
• Communication Management
• Scope Management
• Quality Management
Ans:
a) A Management Skill in all business areas and
human organization activity is the act of getting people
together to accomplish desired goals and objectives.
Management comprises planning, organizing, staffing,
leading or directing, and controlling an organization (a
group of one or more people or entities) or effort for the
purpose of accomplishing a goal. Resourcing
encompasses the deployment and manipulation of
human resources, financial resources, technological
resources, and natural resources.
the land before you start sharing ideas that affect the
organization’s structure, processes and systems. Even if
you do know better, you’ll still need the support of
people around you to make things happen.
Be Courteous
Don’t underestimate the effect of a simple “please”,
“thank you” or “good job” can have on your employees.
Whether they’ve spent the last three days archiving files
or churning out a top-notch client presentation,
acknowledging their efforts goes a long way toward
communicating the value they bring to your team.
Avoid Burnout
a lot of new managers get caught up in the excitement
and enthusiasm of their new positions and for all the
right reasons: they want to learn as much as they can
as quickly as possible and start getting things done in
order to demonstrate their commitment to the
company. As a result, first-time managers often wind up
working excessive hours and when you’re working that
hard, for that long, not all of those hours can be
productive.
b) Time Management
Cost Management:
Organizational management
Personnel administration
Manpower management
Industrial management
Risk Management
Contract Management
Communication Management
Scope Management
Quality Management
Commitment:
Shared responsibility:
Flexibility:
Task-orientedness
Team-orientedness:
Open-mindedness:
what is best for the team and not look for individual
kudos.
project team.
3. Conflict over administrative procedures:
4. A number of managerial and administrative
oriented conflicts may develop over how the project
is managed. The definition of project manager’s
reporting relationships, definition of responsibilities,
interface relationships, project operational
requirements, plan of execution, negotiated work
agreements with other groups and procedures for
administrative support.
5. Conflict over technical opinions and performance
trade-off:
6. In technology-oriented projects, disagreements may
arise over technical issues. Performance
specifications, technical trade-offs and the means
to achieve performance.
7. Conflict over manpower resources:
8. Conflicts may arise around the planning of the
project team with personnel from other functional
and support areas or from the desire to use another
department’s personnel for project support even
though the personnel remain under the authority of
their functional or staff superiors.
9. Conflict over cost:
effects.
3. Another strategy is handling conflict head-on. It is
nothing but standing firm and taking the role of a
dictator and rejecting the views and beliefs of the
other party or standing between the warring
factions and ordering to cease the conflict.
4. The success of resolving conflicts depends on the
mutual cooperation and creativity of the parties.
5. To successfully resolve a conflict, we must
understand both sides of the issues, discus how the
conflict affects people’s performance. Focus should be on
facts and behavior and not on feelings or
personalities/egos.