George LewisProgram/Project Manager| DXC Technology CompanyHeredia, Costa Rica
Which is/was the most difficult PMBOK knowledge area for you to study?
1.Project Integration Management : the processes and activities needed to identify, define, combine, unify, and coordinate the various processes and project management activities within the project management process groups.
2.Project Scope management : the processes required to ensure that the project includes all the work required, and only the work required, to complete the project successfully.
3.Project Time Management : the processes required to manage the timely completion of the project.
4.Project Cost Management : the processes involved in planning, estimating, budgeting, financing, funding, managing, and controlling costs so that the project can be completed within the approved budget.
5.Project Quality Management : the processes and activities of the performing organization that determine quality policies, objectives, and responsibilities so that the project will satisfy the needs for which it was undertaken.
6.Project Human Resource Management : the processes that organize, manage, and lead the project team.
7.Project Communications Management : the processes that are required to ensure timely and appropriate planning, collection, creation, distribution, storage, retrieval, management, control, monitoring, and the ultimate disposition of project information.
8.Project Risk Management : the processes of conducting risk management planning, identification, analysis, response planning, and controlling risk on a project.
9.Project Procurement Management : the processes necessary to purchase or acquire products, services, or results needed from outside the project team. Processes in this area include Procurement Planning, Solicitation Planning, Solicitation, Source Selection, Contract Administration, and Contract Closeout.
10.Project Stakeholders Management : the processes required to identify all people or organizations impacted by the project, analyzing stakeholder expectations and impact on the project, and developing appropriate management strategies for effectively engaging stakeholders in project decisions and execution. Saving Changes...
What i feel is that, cost management is most difficult one as PM needs to give better rate of return on cost parameters to the requesting organization.Here the calculation parts are difficult & different based on tangible & In-Tangible benefits that we get from PROJECT success. Saving Changes...
Johan HattinghProject Manager| My HomeBenoni, Gauteng, South Africa
Hi, Integration management has processes occurring in all process groups, throughout project management. Saving Changes...
PAWAN RASTOGIManager| AccentureBangalore, Karanataka, India
for certification perspective, none, practically - depends on case to case of applying the knowledge gain. As still some time faces issue in selecting BEST Answer among possible options for a situation. Saving Changes...
Sheahien MalikkulamOperations Manager| Future Gas ServicesRas Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates
Peter PellenaarsPM Consultant| Emerson Process ManagementArnhem, Netherlands
For me, it was Quality Management. I continued to struggle with the differences between Perform Quality Assurance and Control Quality.
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1 reply by Farid Alsakkaf
Oct 20, 2016 3:59 AM
Farid Alsakkaf
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without reference to how it is described in the text books I could say Control Quality is when you "steer" the work to be in the right track for quality while Quality Assurance is when you want to 'check" or verify if the work done is to the governing quality standards or not. In fact there is overlap between the two in way that when you control quality you will need to verify if the control done has resulted in getting the quality required so this is a kind of assurance by itself, however, it is normally referred to Quality Assurance when a party other than the work doer makes the verification.
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Farid AlsakkafShips Projects Manager| ADNOCAbu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Oct 20, 2016 2:20 AM
Replying to Peter Pellenaars
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For me, it was Quality Management. I continued to struggle with the differences between Perform Quality Assurance and Control Quality.
without reference to how it is described in the text books I could say Control Quality is when you "steer" the work to be in the right track for quality while Quality Assurance is when you want to 'check" or verify if the work done is to the governing quality standards or not. In fact there is overlap between the two in way that when you control quality you will need to verify if the control done has resulted in getting the quality required so this is a kind of assurance by itself, however, it is normally referred to Quality Assurance when a party other than the work doer makes the verification. Saving Changes...
Abdul BariProject Manager| House of Consulting OfficeJeddah, Saudi Arabia
It might be surprising to some, but the most difficult chapter for me was Stakeholder management. Risk Management was a bit tricky too. Saving Changes...
