In the implementation of projects appear to questions such as:
- What effects do various tasks to date delayed the entire project?
- Which and how many employees are needed?
- standing at all times enough staff available?
What does it cost?
answer these and other questions at short notice to, those responsible must have at any time an overview of the project. This is achieved in complex projects with hundreds of sub-tasks to only using project management.
Project Management covers all management tasks and tools for planning, management and control of a project.
project management is nothing exceptionally new. If you intend for example to build on its own a home, you operate in project management. They put up a schedule so that approximately known, when you can move. They consider the costs of individual trades in order to plan for the financing. Also, you set out to find reliable tradesmen. And of course you also need to know what equipment is to have the house. During the house construction to control the work of craftsmen check how many costs are already incurred and see if the timetable can be adhered to. In order to operate
classical project management. If one were to tell you that they were project managers, would probably shake his head in bewilderment and say, "No, I build just a house!"
project management is not an invention of modern times. The ancient Egyptians had to manage the project "Construction of a pyramid." The modern project management has its origin in the large space projects by NASA in the 60s. In Germany, the Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm GmbH, a subsidiary of Deutsche Aerospace AG, an early intensively used the findings of the project management in the development of military weapons systems.
project management does not include the activities to be solved Problem itself concerning, in particular, the technical input for problem solving, but the management of the problem solving process. Project Management shall:
Project Management determines the "WHO" of a project, eg:
- an appropriate organizational structure for the project
- the project team and the project manager
- the necessary committees for the project
project management determines the "WHAT" of a project, eg:
- the project tasks
- the project aims
- human and financial resources
project management considers "how" of project implementation, including:
- the procedure
- the deployed Planning and control techniques
