Project Management Processes and Tools: A Practical Application

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PROJECT MANAGEMENT

INTRODUCTION
• Brief discussion of personal life
experiences for managing
projects.
• Detailed analysis of project
management process.
• Benefits of using project
management process while
executing the tasks.
• Various project management tools
for increasing the performance
while performing project-related
activities.
• Drawing appropriate conclusions.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT PROCESSES
Following are the core management processes:
 Initiation: Evaluating the issues and identifying solution
 Project planning: Project Initiation Document and Work
Breakdown Structure
 Execution: Creating a project design by using Flowcharts and
diagram
 Closure: Analysing final deliverables and success rate of
project activities (Silvius, 2017).

PERSONAL LIFE
EXPERIENCES
Organising Sports Activity at School
• Preparing process flow and workflow diagrams for determining key
deliverables.
• Accurate estimation of costs involved for conducting sports activities.
• Developing alternative plans for ensuring smooth functioning of the
activities
• Developing effective communication channel for avoiding conflicts.
• Preparing Gantt chart and work breakdown structure (Pivec, 2019).

PERSONAL LIFE EXPERIENCES - Continued..
Celebrating New Year’s Eve at
home
 Organising New Year’s eve
party involves proper planning
and execution of tasks.
 Appropriate planning and
execution functions have to be
determined.
 Identifying all the available
resources before purchasing.
 Identifying suitable store for
purchasing beverages enables to
minimise the expenses.
 Monitoring the activities ensure
completing all the activities on
time (Andersen, 2018).

Conclusion
• Project management processes and tools enables to
complete all the activities.
• Planning is an important function since project objectives
are determined.
• Project initiation document should contain the details
regarding the activities of each team member.
• Developing an effective communication channel ensures
evaluating the actual progress of the activities.

Reference
• Silvius, Gilbert 2017, ‘Sustainability as a new school of
thought in project management’, Journal of Cleaner
Production, vol. 166, pp. 1479–1493.
• Pivec, Maja & Maček, Anita 2019, ‘Employment
background influence on social media usage in
the field of European project management and
communication’, Journal of Business Research,
vol. 94, pp. 280–289.
• Andersen, Erling S. & Grude, Kristoffer V. 2018, ‘Our tribute
to Rodney – And the importance of Goal Directed Project
Management’, International Journal of Project Management,
vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 227–230.