Project Management Processes, Methodologies, and Knowledge Areas

This presentation provides an overview of project management principles, methodologies, and knowledge areas, with a specific focus on IT project management. It outlines the essential project management processes, including initiation, planning, execution, control and validation, and closeout and evaluation. The presentation also explores various project management methodologies such as Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, Kanban, Lean, Six Sigma, and PMI/PMBOK. Furthermore, it delves into project management knowledge areas, including stakeholder identification and management. The presentation emphasizes the relationship between project management and project success, highlighting factors such as project completion, results, and development success. It also addresses the consequences of inadequate project management practices, such as software misuse and lack of data updates. The presentation references key literature on project management to support its claims.

PRINCIPLES OF PROJECT
MANAGEMENT
IT Project

• Popular businesses across the world have been embracing project
management to manage the development of results and results. Similar
to every project managers, the IT ones also require to be aware of quality
assurance, project scheduling, project management tools with reporting.
This is to successfully manage IT projects for meeting the goals
(Olechowski et al., 2016).

APPLICATION OF ESSENTIAL PROJECT
MANAGEMENT PROCESSES:
Project management is a
process with responsibility.
It connects every project
activities altogether and
generates harmony
between projects.
• Initiation.
• Planning.
• Execution
• Control and Validation
• Closeout and Evaluation.

APPLICATION OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT
METHODOLOGIES:
Point of selection is to maximize usage of time and resources. Nonetheless,
there would never be just one methodology perfect for using all single project.
The projects vary in terms of requirements and scopes, indicating proper
methods that must be deployed should be changing (Kavishe & Chileshe,
2018). The various type of methodologies is as follows.
• Agile
• Scrum
• Waterfall
• Kanban
• Lean
• Six Sigma
• PMI/PMBOK

APPLICATION OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT
KNOWLEDGE AREAS:
This comprises of the
following processes.
• Identification of
stakeholders
• Making the plan for
stakeholder
management
• Managing of stakeholder
management
• Controlling of
stakeholder
management

HOW PROJECT MANAGEMENT RELATES TO THE
SUCCESS OF THE PROJECT:
While initiating any plan, it is vital
to define success around the
following levels:
• Project completion success
• Results success
• Development success

HOW PROJECT MANAGEMENT RELATES
TO THE FAILURE OF THE PROJECT:
• Focusing on business value and never technical details.
• Establishing a clear level of accountability for the results measured.
• Having a constituent process to manage unambiguous checkpoints.
• Consequences as project management practices are not adequately
deployed:
• Software successfully implemented degrades to misuse in a short time.
• The databases are never or seldom updated since none take the liability of
keeping data current.
• The operational responsibility for any system falls to IT departments since
none take the system’s ownership resulting to rise in head count (Carvalho &
Rabechini Jr, 2017).

REFERENCES:
• Carvalho, M. M., & Rabechini Jr, R. (2017). Can project sustainability
management impact project success? An empirical study applying a
contingent approach. International Journal of Project Management, 35(6),
1120-1132.
• Kavishe, N., & Chileshe, N. (2018). Identifying Project Management
Practices and Principles for Public–Private Partnerships in Housing
Projects: The Case of Tanzania. Sustainability, 10(12), 4609.
• Olechowski, A., Oehmen, J., Seering, W., & Ben-Daya, M. (2016). The
professionalization of risk management: What role can the ISO 31000 risk
management principles play?. International Journal of Project
Management, 34(8), 1568-1578.