Four periods in the development of modern project management.

[1] Prior to 1958: Craft system to human relations. During this time, the evolution of technology, such as, automobiles and telecommunications shortened the project schedule. For instance, automobiles allowed effective resource allocation and mobility, whilst the telecommunication system increased the speed of communication. Read the rest of this entry »

Project management as the name suggests is the task of setting and achieving targets while optimizing the use of different resources such as time, money, people, materials, energy, space etc. over the course of a project.With the growing popularity and use of Internet the world of project management has witnessed a revolution. Today with the aid of Internet project management has become a relatively quite simple and time saving task. Project management through internet, known as web based project management creates a real time visibility for project managers and management with the help of which they can anytime and anywhere monitor their company’s functioning. While initially the project manager or team leader had to leave his place to inquire about the various team members for follow-ups, now with web based project management and its real-time updates this time can be effectively saved. Read the rest of this entry »

Project managers are often assigned as proposal managers and asked to plan and put an estimate to arrive at an acceptable proposal during the project proposal stage; and upon winning the project to manage the projects with little or no authority, dictated time frames and deliverable, and essentially told to just get the project done! Read the rest of this entry »