Project Management: The Short Version

Conduct a comprehensive research review of the significant principles of project management and how to use project management as a discipline to successfully achieve organizational objectives.

Integrate your research with reflections on professional experience where possible.

The following topics must be reviewed in order for the paper to be complete:

1. Project life-cycle management and the benefits of project management to an organization.
2. Project organizations and the importance of leadership and sponsorship
3. Project team building, including techniques of successful team building
4. Techniques for project scope definition and the importance of managing scope throughout a project.
5. Creation of a work breakdown structure, and how and project manager breaks down the overall project into packages.
6. Comment on the need for contingency planning and why it can help keep a project on schedule.
7. Concept of a phase review and why it is important to sponsors.
8. The need for PM software in large integrated programs and the benefits to the overall project management organization.