Project Management Project: PMBOK Processes and Black-Box Systems

This document presents a comprehensive solution to a project management assignment, addressing two key questions. The first question delves into the interrelated processes of the PMBOK (Project Management Body of Knowledge) guide, illustrating their dependencies and relationships through the example of developing a CRM system. The solution outlines the initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closure phases, detailing the activities within each phase. The second question explores the black-box method for modeling engineering systems, using an example of structural engineering. It explains how inputs and outputs are defined and related, emphasizing the function that connects them. The solution references key PMBOK concepts and provides clear explanations and examples to support understanding.

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Answer to question number 1
As per the PMBOK guide, the project management processes are mainly the set of
interrelated actions as well as activities that are generally performed for achieving the specified
results that are helpful in transforming an input into output by utilizing different types tools and
techniques which are helpful in driving the project from the initiation to the closure phase
(Hermano & Martín-Cruz, 2019). In addition to this, the processes of PMBOK helps in acting as
a roadmap in order to keep the entire going on the right processes which are mainly dependent
on the sound principles which are very much beneficial for the project success.
If the PMBOK based processes are mainly used for developing a CRM system then the
work or project activities needed to be executed in the phases which are listed below:
Initiating: It is found that for developing the CRM system, proper vision for the project
is developed which is further approved by the project sponsor. Additionally, the manager mainly
creates the business plan and undertakes proper feasibility study for assuring that the project is
quite feasible (Varajao, Colomo-Palacios & Silva, 2017). Moreover, the stakeholders who are
required for the development of CRM system are also hired within the project.
Planning: Planning is identified as one of the crucial elements that helps in establishing
the total scope of the project. As per the PMBOK, the activities which are undertaken for
developing the CRM system include development of project budget, schedule, risks as well as
project milestones which are required for proper management of project work.
Execution: The activities which the project manager undertakes include proper design of
the prototype, coding, code validation, database development, interface development as well as
testing. All these activities are undertaken for successfully developing the CRM system.

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Monitoring and controlling: While the other activities occur sequentially, the
controlling as well as monitoring of the various activities of the project that generally occur
within the entire project (Hermano & Martín-Cruz, 2019). As per the PMBOK, it is found that a
number of processes are mainly undertaken for undertaking, reviewing as well as regulating the
progress of the entire project.
Closure: Within the closure phase of the project, the entire project is reviewed and then
the sign off from the project stakeholders are collected. In addition to this, proper documentation
for the entire project is prepared.
Answer to question number 2
It is found that engineers generally built a number of analytical models for properly
representing both the natural as well as human made system that utilizes empirical tools in order
to observe the different attributes of interest for relating them with a number of controllable as
well as uncontrollable input-based variable (Henard et al., 2016). Which are measured by
creating a relationship
Example: If it is assumed that a proper structural engineer generally undertakes the
observation of deflection that is related with the bridge as an output of input including the load
within the middle of the span. It is necessary to vary the load intensity; it is found that different
types of changes are reflected that are known as deflection. Different types of empirical methods
generally vary for increasing the load at different directions by producing relationship that is
represented as y= f(x) where x is considered as input variable, y is considered as output variable
as well as f is considered as the function which is mainly related with input to output.

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In general, it is very much needed to develop proper input variable which can generally
be reflected as vector X and a number of output variables which are represented as vector Y. It is
found that a schematic representation is mainly viewed as one of the entities without proper
knowledge on how the entire input variables can be processed with the help of the system for
producing proper output variables (Emous, 2019). The various types of assumptions which is
created as per the model helps in reflecting the existence of the relationship which is present
between the input as well as output variable which is mainly defined by the function. It is further
accounted by various methodologies that helps in measuring the input and output variable.

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