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:

  1. 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.)
  2. According to the PMBOK Guide, a project manager’s primary role is that of a project integrator. Do you agree or disagree? Why?
  3. 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.