Team PMP
Introduction
Project management is an important undertaking when it comes to the issue of implementing any projects may they be developmental, scientific or even technological. This is because in so far as the success of any project undertaking, there has to be a plan and a premeditated road map as the activities and measures that have to be taken into consideration when executing a project. Before delving into the full address of this essay, it is important to have some of the key words defined as they are used. Firstly, a project in general terms is a plan to design to promote the wellbeing of community. It is an undertaking by a person or a group of person with a view to address a certain challenge pertaining to the living condition of people in a given area.
A project can also be understood to mean a program initiated with a view to inform or educate society on certain issues pertaining to their livelihoods. In this case therefore, a project can be said to be an activity focused on the improvement of human and possibly non-human life. In more specific terms, a project can be a temporal or a long term activity desired to produce a peculiar result in a particular area of specialization(Rodney, 1999). On that note, a project is understood to be a temporal undertaking because of the fact that it is designed to be run within a specificity of time.
In other words, without setting time lines within which to actualize the goals and objectives of a project, it may become hard to run or even evaluate progress of the project. As well, in view of the idea of Implementation of the project, a certain amount of resources is considered for investment in the project. Now, these resources cannot be indefinite. There has to be a limit of the amount of resources that are to be invested in a given project. This is one of the aspects that exhibit the specificity of the timelines within which the project can run.
Critical roles and phases in IT projects One of the most
Project management is an important undertaking when it comes to the issue of implementing any projects may they be developmental, scientific or even technological. This is because in so far as the success of any project undertaking, there has to be a plan and a premeditated road map as the activities and measures that have to be taken into consideration when executing a project. Before delving into the full address of this essay, it is important to have some of the key words defined as they are used. Firstly, a project in general terms is a plan to design to promote the wellbeing of community. It is an undertaking by a person or a group of person with a view to address a certain challenge pertaining to the living condition of people in a given area.
A project can also be understood to mean a program initiated with a view to inform or educate society on certain issues pertaining to their livelihoods. In this case therefore, a project can be said to be an activity focused on the improvement of human and possibly non-human life. In more specific terms, a project can be a temporal or a long term activity desired to produce a peculiar result in a particular area of specialization(Rodney, 1999). On that note, a project is understood to be a temporal undertaking because of the fact that it is designed to be run within a specificity of time.
In other words, without setting time lines within which to actualize the goals and objectives of a project, it may become hard to run or even evaluate progress of the project. As well, in view of the idea of Implementation of the project, a certain amount of resources is considered for investment in the project. Now, these resources cannot be indefinite. There has to be a limit of the amount of resources that are to be invested in a given project. This is one of the aspects that exhibit the specificity of the timelines within which the project can run.
Critical roles and phases in IT projects One of the most
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