Description
Topic: Managing Project Work
- Managing Project Work
- Directing & Managing Project Execution
- Monitor and Control Project Work
- Integrated Change Control
- Project Oversight
- Outputs if Managing Project Work
Book:
Title: A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) Sixth Edition
Author: Project Management Institute
Publisher: Project Management Institute
Year Published: 2017 Edition: 6th
Readings:
- PMBOK® Guide (6th edition): Part 1 Chapter 4; Part 2 Sections 4.1-2, 5.1-5.2
- Project Management Article/Case Study 2 Managing Project Quality – Select one of the Manage Quality tools and techniques including those shared by the control Quality Processes. Locate a journal article(s) describing your selected tool or technique.
Assignment:
For your initial response, write and post a summary of the Streun (2006) article titled “Project Management Integration in Practice,” you located for the Week 1 Reading assignment on Project Management Integration. Then prepare and post a topic in this forum responding to the following:
- Provide a brief summary and evaluation of the article. Your summary should include APA 6.0 compliant in-text citations and references. (If you are new to APA style, please see the APA style references located from Citation Styles Link under the eCourse Porta page.)
- According to the PMBOK Guide, a project manager’s primary role is that of a project integrator. Do you agree or disagree? Why?
- Compare and contrast the project management integration processes of an organization for which you are familiar to those discussed in Streun (2006).
Article Reference:
Streun, G. (2006). CHAPTER 7: Project management integration in practice. In, AMA Handbook of Project Management (pp. 69-73). Ipswich, MA: American Management Association International.
