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Volume-7, Issue-1, January-February 2017
International Journal of Engineering and Management Research
Page Number: 251-255
Review of Project Management as a Tool for Project Success
Dr. Amit Bijon Dutta
AGM Civil and Structural’s, Mecgale Pneumatics Pvt. Ltd., N65, Nagpur, INDIA
ABSTRACT
The majority of the projects we hear of in media
are either more thanthe budget, late or are simply not good
enough and still different group of people claim that those
projects have been successful. Nor the practitioners nor the
academicians appear to agree on what constitutes project
accomplishment. In spite of all that is acknowledged about
project management most excellent practices, they are time
and again absent from typical construction projects. This
has motivated in developing a tool to assess construction
project management practices, focusing on the assessment
and evaluation of individual project practices. Project
Management is used as a tool in all resources and discipline
in project to accomplish the goal of the project.
Keywords:Project, Project Management, Planning,
Assessment, Time, Cost, Quality
I. INTRODUCTION
As the big businesses have shifted from
restrictedlocal environment to global environment, the
competition is more concentrated and complex. Each and
every company needs to get better and build up its system
in order to be in commandand be able to compete with its
competitors. Project management is applied to smooth the
progress of the organization to ensure that the project has
completed within budget, on time and meet customer
expectation. Project manager needs to think about and
consider the risks that happen in a project, duration of the
project, and the factor that can bring success to the
project. Project management (PM) is a very
importantpowerfully built discipline within the
construction business. Yet, our experience is so weak that
PM practices continue to be humdrum, particularly among
project owner and organizations.
Contributing factors to poor PM practices or
failure are:
1) Project organizations are ignorant of scope
description, classification and their PM practices
compared to the best prevailing practices,
2) Project organizations are unaware and sceptical
about the significance offered by various PM practices
and also lack in communication, and
3) Be deficient in of suitable project management
competencies.
II. UNDERSTANDING OF A PROJECT
AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Understanding the conception of a project has
developed significantly in the most recent decades. For a
extensive time, projects were considered as unique tasks
.It was then realized in the mid 90s that projects are
temporary organization that has a specific budget and time
frame. Cleland (1994) stated that projects are building
blocks of planned implementation, i.e. projects produce
the beneficial changes essential for organisations. At the
present time, projects are only one of its kind tasks,
transitory organizations and strategic building blocks at
the one time.
The task of project manager has developed in
accordance with the perceptive of conception of project
success.Previously, when projects were defined as
exceptional tasks, project managers were believed to
focus on the process of the project, thus managing the
operational process considering the project results, and the
time and cost constraints. At the same time, as the
understanding of the conception of a project widened, the
role of the project manager also got highly developed. The
management of stakeholders and the delivery of the
beneficial change became part of his/her responsibility.
Now a day, the most significant roles are as follows:
planning the projects, implementing the plan, managing
stakeholders and delivering the beneficial. Thus project
management can be well thoughtout as an application of
knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project
activities to meet up the project needs (Project
Management Association 2006: 24).