Module 2 POM
Module 2 POM
Module 2 POM
Project integration management is the umbrella that covers all other project management
knowledge areas. It knits together individual processes and tasks into one project with
defined goals and deliverables.
Project integration management helps by coordinating all the various parts of a project,
ensuring different team members follow one overall plan. It helps to keep the project
running smoothly and efficiently.
How many times have you started a project just to have extraneous tasks slipped in, making
your completion times creep up? This is why project scope must be well-defined and
defended throughout the process.
Project scope management helps you to stay on top of extra tasks that might be added
during the course of the project. Therefore, it makes dealing with any expected or
unexpected increases in costs or workflow much more manageable.
Project time management will help you to manage the project within the deadlines and
schedules originally set. With this, you’ll be better able to ensure the project moves
smoothly to completion in a timely manner.
With or without a budget, your project will cost money. Keeping costs low, or at least at an
expected or reasonable level, is a fundamental part of showing ROI on a project. After all, if
you can’t definitively lay out how much a project will cost, how will you be able to quantify if
you’ve made any money?
Project cost management is critical to make sure you remain within budget. Financial
challenges that arise during a project can throw up unplanned surprises and affect
profitability — project cost management can help avoid this.
In project management, quality isn’t the same as perfection. It’s not practical to spend the
time and resources to take a project to perfection — and in many cases, that’s not even
attainable. The goal of project quality management is to achieve consistency across your
projects.
Completing a project on time is one thing — but completing it to a high standard of work is
arguably more important. Project quality management allows you to make sure what you
deliver meets with client approval.
Working with people is part of the reason you signed up for project management, right? One
of the most rewarding parts of this process is creating teams that click and helping individual
team members grow and learn new tasks. That’s why this project management knowledge
area is more than just setting schedules and assigning tasks.
Project resource management is a benefit for knowing who, and what, you need in place for
the project to be a success. You can check that you have enough people, the right people,
and project team — and look for extra resource if there are any gaps.
How many times have you heard the phrase: “Keep me in the loop?” And yet, when changes
happen, maybe important stakeholders were left out?
There is a fine line between under and over communication. Your communications
management plan is crucial to help identify who needs to know what and when before your
project start
The truth is that no project goes off without a hitch. And it’s unrealistic to look at a project
and assume everything will go smoothly.
If you can manage your firefighting by identifying major project risks and the mitigation
plans associated with them, your team and project requesters will be prepared and more
forgiving when issues in a project come up. As an added bonus, you’ll have the benefits of
time and energy upfront, rather than trying to troubleshoot at the eleventh hour when your
team is stressed and up against a deadline.
It’s rare that a project doesn’t come up against a stumbling block or two. Project risk
management can flag upcoming problems and equip you with the means to work around
and through them, rather than causing major complications.