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...
Farid AlsakkafShips Projects Manager| ADNOCAbu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Thanks George,
I know your question was on the individual finding for which knowledge area is difficult while my answer was related to the practice, however, I believe that all knowledge areas are not complicated to understand. a PM should believe that success depends on the right integrated team. Saving Changes...
HENDRY CHARLES.AAdditional Chief Engineer| BANGALORE METRO RAIL CORPORATION LTDThillai Nagar,Managiri, Tamil Nadu, India
Risk and cost management Saving Changes...
Raj Shekhar BidikaMaintenance Engineer| Reliance Industries LimitedJamnagar, Gujarat, India
George,
It depends on an individual's experience and work culture. As per my experience, I was well equipped in risk, procurement and stakeholder management but I found difficult in studying Cost, Schedule management & EVM. Saving Changes...
I would say Project Time Management was not necessaryly the most difficult to study but for transferring that knowledge from the PMBOK into the PMO.
Ensuring properly managing resources and avoiding scheduling conflicts, cost over runs when a missed scheduling window occurs that have knock on effects is a difficult PMBOK knowledge area to master.
