Question

What are the Project Management Knowledge areas? Explain the various types of knowledge areas that project managers should develop for effective and efficient management of their projects.

Answer 1

The different Project Management Knowledge Areas are as follows:

• Project integration

  • In the Project integration, monitoring and controlling phase has a lot of importance with the monitoring and controlling team looking to make the best of the work completed along with the implementation of any change management if required in the due course of the ongoing project.
    Finally, the Integration management ends with the closure and handover of the project to the customer with thorough checks and signoffs from concerned teams.

• Project scope management

  • The scope here defines collecting the requirements of the project, defining the goals and missions that will complete the project diagram and making the right work breakdown structure that will help the team to go ahead with the schedule management plan for its implementation in the planning stage.

• Project time management

  • Schedule Management starts with planning with the inputs of the Work Breakdown structure, defining the activities that will make the project execution smoother, sequencing the activities in order to help the executor and keep the schedule in order.

• Project cost management

  • Project Cost is another important factor that will determine the credibility and effectiveness of the company in the execution of the project in the accepted invoice amount.

• Project quality management

  • Quality Management comes into play in planning, execution and manage & control phases; proper planning will be the key to a great quality that is maintained across all the phases with inputs from cost management and people behind the project who manage & execute for the customer as per their requirements.

• Project Human Resource Management

  • The tasks under this knowledge category are spread across planning, Executing and Managing & Control Phases. The work starts with planning the resources from the inputs of cost, quality and schedule management keeping in mind the project scope with special focus on the deliverables.

• Project Communication Management

  • managing the communications is the key for good relationship management among the team members, monitoring them is also necessary for regular intervals to ensure ironing of all issues is done in time.

• Project Risk Management

  • It is a process to identify the potential risks that will affect your project, analyze them to see how it is going to make an impact for the pace of implementing the project over the planned schedule.

• Project Procurement Management

  • Procurement refers to the vendor’s management and here it is purely referred to the supplies that will be affecting the deliverables of the project.

• Project Stakeholder Management

  • Project Stakeholder Management starts with the identification of possible stakeholders to be part of the project and they are classified as internal and external, the people nominated to be represented in the project can be from the customer side and executor side.