2. Project Management Institute
www.pmi.org
Building Professionalism in Project Management
Project Management Institute
Not for Profit Professional Association
Established in 1969 by 5 volunteers
Global Organization headquartered in Pennsylvania, USA
With more than 700,000 members worldwide
251 Charted Chapters
Local Chapter - Arabian Gulf Chapter
www.pmi-agc.com
3. A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge
The Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) Guide
provides and promotes a common lexicon for discussing, writing,
and applying project management.
The PMBOK Guide is developed by PMI, and uses this document as a
foundational project management reference for its professional
development programs.
June 30, 2009 Fourth Edition of PMBOK Guide based exam starts
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4. What is the project?
• A project is “a temporary endeavor
undertaken to accomplish a unique product
or service” (PMBOK® Guide)
• Attributes of projects:
– unique purpose
– temporary
– require resources, often from various
areas
– should have a primary sponsor and/or
customer
– involve uncertainty
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5. You Can Apply Project Management to
Many Areas
• Project management applies to work as well
as personal projects.
• Project management applies to many
different disciplines (IT, construction,
finance, sports, event planning, etc.)
• Project management skills can help in
everyday life
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8. What is Project Management?
Project management is “the application of
knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques
to project activities in order to meet
project requirements” (PMI*, Project
Management Body of Knowledge
(PMBOK® Guide)
• On Time ON Budget To Specs
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9. Project Management
Process Groups
The PMBOK® Guide divides the generally
recognized good project management practices
into 42 processes that fall into 5 process groups.
You haven’t learned the names of the process
groups or knowledge areas yet... but you can
probably guess from their names how they fit
together!
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10. Project Management
Process Groups
Monitoring & Closing Initiating Executing Planning
Controlling
Here’s This is This is This means Here’s where
where you where you where tracking you fill
figure out figure out the the out all of your
what your how you work work, looking final
project’s gets for problems paperwork and
will do all of
high-level and fixing get
the work. done.
goals are. those paid for the
problems work
you’ve
before
completed.
they derail 10
your project.
11. Project Management
Process Groups
Monitoring & Closing
Initiating Planning Executing
Controlling
Here’s This is This is This means Here’s where
where you where you where tracking you fill
figure out figure out the the out all of your
what your how you work work, looking final
project’s gets for problems paperwork and
will do all of
high-level and fixing get
the work. done.
goals are. those paid for the
problems work
you’ve
before
completed.
they derail 11
your project.
18. Project Management 9 Knowledge Areas
• Knowledge areas describe the key competencies
that project managers must develop
– 4 core knowledge areas lead to specific project
objectives (scope, time, cost, and quality)
– 4 facilitating knowledge areas are the means
through which the project objectives are achieved
(human resources, communication, risk, and
procurement management)
– 1 knowledge area (project integration
management) affects and is affected by all of the
other knowledge areas
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21. Managing project constraints
Your project Your project will You need to manage
will need to always have to the scope of work
stay within a you do for the
get done on
budget. project.
schedule.
Time Cost Scope
You have to Unexpected
If your product
have obstacles can
doesn’t do what
the people and wreck your
it’s supposed to
materials to get project if you
do,
the work done. don’t deal with
you wont succeed.
this one.
Resources Quality Risk
22. Managing project constraints
Cost Resources
Time Scope Quality
Risk
Any time your project changes, you’ll need to know
how that change affects all of the constraints.
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25. Project Manager’s Tool Bag
• Communication Skills
• Organizational Skills
• Budgeting
• Problem solving
• Negotiation and influencing
• Leading
• Team building
26. Project Stakeholders
A stakeholder is anyone who is affected either
positively or negatively by the cost, time, scope,
resources, quality, or risks of your project.
28. Project Stakeholders
• Stakeholders are the people involved in or
affected by project activities
• Stakeholders include
– the project sponsor and project team
– support staff
– customers
– users
– suppliers
– opponents to the project
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29. What we do with the Stakeholders ?
• Identify ALL of them
• Determine ALL of their requirements
• Determine their expectations
• Communicate with them
• Manage their influence
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31. You Have to Know:
The sponsor of a project is responsible for
creating the project charter.
The sponsor of a project pays for the project.
The PM manages the project.
When you’re taking the exam , be careful
when you see a question that asks you
about the customer or client.
the customer or client is also the sponsor.
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32. You Have to Know
Portfolio Program Project
A portfolio is a group of A program is a group of A project is any work
projects or programs that projects that are closely that
are linked together by a linked, to the point where produces a specific
business goal. managing them together result and is
If an architecture firm was provides some benefit. temporary. Projects
venturing into remodeling The always have
existing buildings as well firm knows from a beginning and an
as designing new experience end. Building
ones, they might split their that creating huge a house is a classic
firm’s efforts into separate skyscrapers example of
New Construction and is dramatically different a project. Projects
Remodeling portfolios than can be part
since the goals for each building residential of programs or
are quite different. homes, so portfolios, but
A program is a group of residential home portfolios and
projects that are
construction programs can’t be
would be its own separate part of a project.
managed together program.
because of a shared 32
benefit.
33. Notice that:
… what a project is NOT
• Projects are NOT: always strategic or critical
• Projects are NOT: ongoing operations (or processes)
• Projects are NOT: always successful
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34. Ethics in Project Management
• Ethics is an important part of all
professions
• Project managers often face ethical
dilemmas
• In order to earn PMP certification,
applicants must agree to the PMP
code of professional conduct
