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What Are The Main Objectives of Project Management

Project management involves planning, organizing, motivating, and controlling resources to achieve project goals while considering scope, time, quality, and cost. The main objectives of project management are to complete projects on time and on budget with high quality while meeting client needs and requirements. Project management methodologies include Prince2, Agile, Six Sigma, Scrum, Kanban, Lean, and Waterfall.

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What Are The Main Objectives of Project Management

Project management involves planning, organizing, motivating, and controlling resources to achieve project goals while considering scope, time, quality, and cost. The main objectives of project management are to complete projects on time and on budget with high quality while meeting client needs and requirements. Project management methodologies include Prince2, Agile, Six Sigma, Scrum, Kanban, Lean, and Waterfall.

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What are the Main Objectives of Project

Management?
Before we learn Project Management, let's understand:

What is a Project?
A project is a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product,
service or result. A project is defined as temporary because it has a defined
beginning and end time, and it is unique because it has a particular set of
operations designed to accomplish a goal

The primary characteristics of a project are:

 It has a definite start and end point


 Once the end point is reached, the project is over
 It is attempting to achieve something new
 Project must meet the customer or stakeholder requirements

In this Project Management tutorial, we will learn:

 What is Project Management?


 Objectives of Project Management
 Project Management Methodologies

What is Project Management?


Project Management is a discipline to plan, organize, motivate, and control
the resources to achieve specific project goals. The main objective of project
management is to achieve project goals and targets while keeping in mind the
project scope, time, quality, and cost. It facilitates the project workflow with
team collaboration on a single project.

Project management actually began in the early 1950s. The need for project
management arose after observing the benefits of organizing work within the
project and the critical need to coordinate across different departments and
professionals.

Project management mainly deals with these ten areas


 Integration
 Cost
 Human resources
 Stakeholder management
 Scope
 Quality
 Communications
 Time
 Procurement
 Risk Management

Objectives of Project Management


While preparing a project, you should look into these perspectives, which
helps to give a much better understanding of the whole process.

Following are the main Software Project Management Objectives:

 How does the project fit into the organization?


 How will the project evolve over time?
 What skills are required to manage the project successfully?
 Development and Implementation of procedures
 Efficient communication, collaboration, and productive guidelines
 Achieve project goals within the estimated time with high quality
 Allocate and optimize necessary resources to meet project goals
 Meet the exclusive needs and requirements of the client

Project Management Methodologies


Here are the various methodologies available for Project Management:

1. Prince2
2. Agile
3. Six Sigma
4. Scrum
5. Kanban
6. Lean
7. Waterfall
We will look each of this into in a later part of the tutorial. Various tools are
available to track project tasks and measure accomplishments during the
project. These includes Gantt charts, PERT charts and Work down structures.

Summary
 Project management is the discipline of planning, organizing, motivating
and controlling resources to achieve specific goals.
 Project management deals with various aspect of projects like
o Cost
o Human resources
o Stakeholder management
o Scope
o Quality
o Communications
o Time

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