Project Management

The tasks to be handled by a project manager to successfully manage a project include:

• Scope Management - This includes planning, defining and managing the scope of the project.
• Integration Management - This is developing and managing the direction of the project
• Time and Cost Management - This covers developing a schedule, allocating resources and managing funds for the project.
• Quality Management - This involves taking care of the quality of the process in question such that it meets or even exceeds various quality parameters set earlier.
• Human Resource Management - A manager needs to take care of his team, encourage and motivate them and make sure the team moves in the right direction.
• Communication Management - The manager needs to prepare a communication plan and make sure that there is a healthy communication, both horizontally and vertically.
• Risk Management - Various risks involved in a project should be identified and a mitigation and contingency plan needs to be developed to ensure that the project is not derailed at any point.
• Procurement Management - Various materials needed during the project need to be procured and managed with the vendors and suppliers for successful completion of the project.

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