Project Management

Main roles

Provide project management expertise to accompany, guide and support the various project stakeholders.

Apply best project management practices and methodologies.

Implement the best processes and tools to deliver a project within scope, budget and allocated resources, schedule and expected quality, while ensuring risk management.

Ensure good communication with the various internal and external stakeholders and monitor progress on a daily basis in order to achieve objectives.

Provide progress reports and ensure compliance with project management plans.

Work closely with management and provide recommendations related to the mandate.

Establish and clearly define project requirements (deliverables), detailed schedule and scope.

Determine resource and budget requirements.

Identify and plan to prevent risks and establish project governance.

Participate in identifying action plans to manage change when there are modifications or delays impacting scope of work, budgets, content, schedule or quality of deliverable.

Implement means to foster communication between team members and their mobilization.

Communicate with management, organizational executives, suppliers and other stakeholders.

Participate, lead and hold start-up, follow-up and post-mortem meetings with the project team.

Ensure and facilitate handover to operations.

Facilitate and complete post-mortems and other relevant project documentation.

the 5 Project Management Processes groups

I- Initiating Process

III- Executing Process

I- Initiating Process

Develop a project charter
Identify stakeholders

II- Planning Process

III- Executing Process

I- Initiating Process

Develop a project management plan
Collect requirements
Define scope
Create project work breakdown structure (WBS)
Define activities
Sequence activities
Estimate activities resources
Estimate activity duration
Develop schedule
Estimate costs
Determine budget
Plan quality
Develop human resources plan
Plan communications
Plan risk management
Identify risks
Perform qualitative risk analysis
Perform quantitative risk analysis
Plan risk responses
Plan procurements

III- Executing Process

III- Executing Process

IV- Monitoting and Controling Process

Direct and manage project execution
Perform quality assurance
Acquire project team
Develop project team
Manage project team
Distribute information
Manage stakeholder expectations
Conduct procurements

IV- Monitoting and Controling Process

IV- Monitoting and Controling Process

IV- Monitoting and Controling Process

Monitor and control project work
Perform integrated change control
Verify scope
Control scope
Control schedule
Control costs
Perform quality control
Report on performance
Monitor and control risks
Administer supplies

V-Closing Process

IV- Monitoting and Controling Process

V-Closing Process

Close project or phase
Close procurement

9 Knowledge Areas

The Processes listed above are divided into the following 9 knowledge areas:

Project integration management
Project scope management
Project time management
Project cost management
Project quality management
Project human resources management
Project communications management
Project risk management
Project procurement management

Ref: 2008 Project Management Institute. A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide) Fourth Edition, Chapter 3