A project is an independent one-time or long-term indefinite work task carried out by people through their efforts, using various methods, organizing resources such as manpower, materials, and finances, and carrying out the work task in accordance with the relevant planning arrangements of the business model with a view to achieving the goals limited by quantitative and qualitative indicators.
Project parameters include project scope, quality, cost, time, and resources. The U.S. Project Management Institute (projectManagementInstitute, PMI) in its publication "Project Management Body of Knowledge Guide" (ProjectManagementBodyofKnowledge, PMBOK) for the project is defined as follows: the project is for the creation of a unique product, service, or outcome of the Systematized work. The following activities can be called a project:
1.Developing or operating a product;
2.Planning to hold a large-scale event (such as planning and organizing weddings, large-scale international conferences, etc.);
3.Planning a driving tour;
4.ERP consulting, development, implementation, and training;
5.Establishing and operating a sub-brand. brand.
Projects usually have some of the following basic characteristics
1. Projects are developed to achieve a specific goal or set of goals;
2. Projects have to be integrated with the integration of the ten major knowledge areas of scope, time, cost, quality, resources, communication, risk, procurement and related parties;
3. The complexity and disposability;
4. Projects are customer-centric;
5. Projects are a systematic integration of elements.
Concepts
Project management (projectmanagementpm) is the name of the United States of America's earliest beginning with the Manhattan Project. After the introduction of China by Professor Hua Luogeng in the 1950s (due to historical reasons called the integrated method and the preferred method). Taiwan Province called the project special program.
Project management is a branch of the discipline of "management science and engineering", is between the natural sciences and social sciences, a fringe discipline.
Definition of project management: Project management is a set of techniques or methods based on accepted management principles that are used to plan, evaluate, and control work activities in order to achieve a desired end result on time, on budget, and according to specifications.
The main components of project management are: scope management, time management, cost management, quality management, human resource management, risk management, communication management, procurement and contract management, and general management.
The main objectives of project management:
1. to meet the requirements and expectations of the project;
2. to meet the different requirements and expectations of the project stakeholders;
3. to meet the identified requirements and expectations of the project;
4. to meet the unidentified requirements and expectations of the project.