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is a formal or informal approach to discover information from stakeholders by talking to them directly. It is typically done by asking prepared or spontaneous questions and recording the responses.
Interview
Responsible for developing a definition of the project; ensures that the project is delivered on time, to budget and to the required quality standard; ensures the project is effectively resourced and manager relationships with a wide range of groups; maintains a cooperative, motivated and successful team.
Project Manager
The person who commissions others to deliver the project and champions the cause throughout the project; typically, a senior member of staff with a relevant area of responsibility that will be affected by the outcome of the project;
Project Sponsor
This refers to what the project manager knows about project management.
Knowledge
This refers to how the project manager behaves when performing the project or related activity.
Personal
Tuckman’s Ladder of Group Development:
-personal relations are characterized by dependence. The group members rely on safe, patterned behavior and look to the group leader for guidance and direction. During this stage, the team becomes oriented to the task and goals are defined. Behaviors between group members are typically polite and non-threatening. To move to the next stage, group members must relinquish the comfort of non-threatening topics and risk the possibility of conflict.
Forming
The staff who actively work on the project, at some stage, during the lifetime of the project; some may have a specific role
Project Team Members
Judgment or expertise should be sought from groups or individuals with specialized training or knowledge on the subject matter
Expert Judgement
Skills used by a person to interact with others properly. In the business domain, the term generally refers to an employee's ability to get along with others while getting the job done.
Interpersonal
in this stage, interpersonal skills are characterized by competition and conflict. As group member attempt to organize for the task, conflicts occur. Individuals are forced to mold their feelings, ideas, attitudes, and beliefs to suit the group organization. Cliques are formed. Questions arise to roles, responsibilities, rules, rewards and evaluation. During this stage leadership is often challenged. In order to progress to the next stage, group member must move from testing and challenging beliefs to a problem-solving mentality. Communication, particularly the ability to listen, must be stressed to team members.
Storming
In this stage, people work independently, in subgroups, or as a total unity with equal facility. Their roles and authority adjusts to meet the changing needs of the group. At this stage, the group is the most productive. Group members are both highly task oriented and people oriented. The overall goal is productivity through problem solving and work.
Performing
a collection of projects or programs and other work that are grouped together to facilitate effective management of that work to meet strategic business objectives.
Portfolio Management
a group of related projects managed in a coordinate way to obtain benefits and control not available from managing them individually.
Program Management
is a modern business model that is based on the belief that people who work effectively in teams can accomplish more than individuals can accomplish working alone.
team concept
technique of systematically gathering and analyzing quantitative and qualitative information to determine whose interests should be taken into account throughout the project.
Stakeholder analysis
is an enterprise environmental factor which can affect the availability of resources and influence how projects are conducted.
Organizational Structure
are an organizational function performing the ongoing execution of activities that produce the same product or provide a repetitive service.
Operations Management
This final stage involves the disengagement of relationships between team members and a short period of recognition for the team’s achievements. Sometimes, concluding the operations of a team is disturbing for members, especially if they have worked together for long periods of time creating a brief time of mourning.
Adjourning
Group members are engaged in active acknowledgement of all members’ contributions, community building and solving of group issues. Leadership is now shared and cliques are dissolved. Team members would as a whole to share feelings and ideas, solicit and give feedback to one another, and explore actions related to the task. Creativity is at its highest. The focus of the group is on the task and not on individual personalities; however, the group may be resistant to change as they now function as a unit.
Norming
is the standard for managing most projects most of the time across many types of industries. This standard describe the project management process, tools, and techniques used to manage a project toward a successful outcome.
Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK)
is an organizational body or entity assigned various responsibilities related to the centralized and coordinated management of those projects under its domain.
Project Management Office (PMO)