Project Management Theory and Practice!
Hasan Yahya, Ph.D
In this part we explain Project Management
. As a more productive model of management in theory and practice than other leadership models. We are familiar with the saying: “Situation control needs effective measures”. Without measures no one can control anything. Measures, however needs mental skills , depends on logical reasoning and critical thinking to map out goals or objectives for the measures to help achieving goals. To deal with continuous feedbacks to change management styles. Such control may be applied to Program Management (PM) which I believe is more applicable these days than any other theory. Because it uses technology as well as management expertise.
Project Management (PM) is the discipline of planning, organizing and managing resources [human professional skills and natural] to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives. Certain elements are needed to have for the PM team to abide with three elements: Time, space, and technology.
Time is necessary for a project which is a finite endeavor where specific start and completion dates are needed to be assigned to a project undertaken to create a unique product or service which brings about beneficial change or added value. This finite characteristic of projects stands in contrast to processes, however, or operations, which are permanent or semi-permanent functional work to repetitively produce the same product or service.
Space: it might be actual or virtual space, In case of actual space, it follows the steps of other management theories.
The Technology, is the use the PM by designing on an internet, giving possible models of output for goals. And depends on changing hypotheses in terms what if? Then what?
In practice, the management of these three elements or may be described as systems is often found to be quite different, and as such requires the development of distinct technical skills and the adoption of separate management theories (described in part two).
Challenges may face PM, to achieve all of the project goals and objectives while honoring the project rules constraints. Typical constraints are volume, time, and budget limitations Another challenge but more ambitious is to maximize the allocation and integration of inputs necessary to meet planned Goals and objectives. Historically, PM as a discipline, was developed from different fields of application including engineering, construction and defense. The two forefathers of project management known in the USA were Henry Gantt, the father of planning and control techniques, who is famously known for his use of the Gantt Chart as a project management tool, the other was Henry Fayol for his creation of the 5 management functions, which form the basis for the body of knowledge associated with project and program management. [PEMC] design stands for stages of Planning, Execution, Monitoring and Controlling systems.
Theories of management were developed through the years. Contemporary theories of management tend to account for and help interpret the rapidly changing nature of today’s organizational environments. If you have the knowledge of these theories, you may apply them to other sciences as well. The assumptions usually are different, but the same logic controls each theory. [Next: What are the Management Theories?] (552 words)
Hasan Yahya is an American Arab personality, a professor of sociology, and a columnist at wfol.tv, Malaysia, and TINA International News Agency, Michigan, USA. www.hasanyahya.com
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