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...
Personally, I felt Risk management is the problematic area.
Because Risk management covers all other knowledge areas from top to bottom and also most of the situation based questions are in this concept.
Other knowledge areas you can quickly point out what is what but in this area(Risk management), it is difficult to ascertain. Saving Changes...
Janarthanan BalasubramanianSenior Business Analyst| Standard Chartered Global Business ServicesBangalore, Karnataka, India
I would add my comment as the question directs to 'study' and not 'application' of the knowledge areas. I am prepping for CAPM and involved in Capital Projects Portfolio status reporting, not directly in projects. So with regards to challenging areas of study, for me it would be: Cost and Schedule Management. Specific topics would be EVM and CPM that are giving me a bit of challenge. Saving Changes...
The reality is that, for many stakeholders, we require a degree in pyschology to adequately manage their expectations. Tools and techniques can only go so far. Saving Changes...
Anish AbrahamPrivacy Program Manager| University of WashingtonAuburn, Wa, United States
