- List of project management topics
-
This list of project management topics gives an overview of project management topics.
Contents
Project management activities
Project management is composed of several different types of activities such as:
- Analysis and design of objectives and events
- Planning the work according to the objectives
- Assessing and controlling risk (or risk management)
- Estimating resources
- Allocation of resources
- Organizing the work
- Acquiring human and material resources
- Assigning tasks
- Directing activities
- Controlling project execution
- Tracking and reporting progress (Management information system)
- Analyzing the results based on the facts achieved
- Defining the products of the project
- Forecasting future trends in the project
- Quality management
- Issues management
- Issue solving
- Defect prevention
- Identifying, managing & controlling changes
- Project closure (and project debrief)
- Communicating to stakeholders
Project management artifacts
The following documents serve to clarify objectives and deliverables and to align sponsors, clients, and project team's expectations.
- Project charter
- Preliminary scope statement / Statement of work
- Business case / Feasibility study
- Scope statement / Terms of reference
- Project management plan / Project initiation document
- Work breakdown structure
- Change control plan
- Risk management plan
- Risk breakdown structure
- Communications plan
- Governance model
- Risk register
- Issue log
- Action item list
- Resource management plan
- Project schedule
- Project status report
- Responsibility assignment (RACI) matrix
- Database of lessons learned
- Stakeholder analysis
- Document management
Project management tools
Project management tools include following:
Financial tools
Risk management tools
- Cause-and-effect diagram
- Risk register
- SWOT analysis
General management tools
- Online tools to run a project health check (Ph-Check tool), take a baseline or checkpoint, or to generate highlight, or status reports.
- Project management software
Scheduling charts
- PERT charts
- Gantt charts
- Event chain diagram
- Time–distance diagram
Communication aids for teams
- Responsibility assignment (RACI) matrix
- Run charts
- Project cycle optimisation (PCO)
- Participatory impact pathways analysis (An approach for developing common understanding and consensus amongst project participants and stakeholders as to how the project will achieve its goal)
- Logical framework approach
Related lists
- Glossary of project management
- List of management topics
- List of production topics
- List of project management software
- List of Theory of Constraints topics
- Timeline of project management
- List of mind mapping software
References
External links
Categories:- Project management
- Business lists
- Outlines
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
