How to Synthesize the Effects of Various Processes on Project Management
Demonstrate your ability to:
- Evaluate the effects of project management tools on productivity.
- Assess and predict trends in capacity and scheduling management, and finally.
- Interpret the importance of the planning function as it relates to long-term productivity gains.
The project approach enables an organization to focus attention and concentrate efforts on accomplishing a narrow set of performance objectives within a limited time and budget framework. This can produce significant benefits compared with other approaches that might be considered. Technology has been beneficial to project management. Among those benefits are the use of computer-aided design (CAD) to produce updated prototypes on construction and product-development projects; software such as Microsoft Project to keep team members who are in separate locations in close contact; and the ability for remote viewing of projects, allowing those in different locations a firsthand view of progress and problems.
As the newly appointed project manager of the Information Technology department
- Four project management software
- Analysis of Microsoft project management software on creating schedules, estimating costs, and tracking progress
- Advantages and disadvantages to using a project management software package