Project Management - Part II

Project integration management is the umbrella that covers all other project management knowledge areas. It knits together individual processes and tasks into one project with defined goals and deliverables.


Project Scope Management requires you to create a management plan that defines, validates, and controls scope. These processes will ensure you stay on task and that everyone, including the project requester, understands what tasks will be included in the project to prevent frustrating changes and unmet expectations.


Project time management will help you to manage the project within the deadlines and schedules originally set. With this, you’ll be better able to ensure the project moves smoothly to completion in a timely manner.

Project cost management is critical to make sure you remain within budget. Financial challenges that arise during a project can throw up unplanned surprises and affect profitability — project cost management can help avoid this.


Project Quality Management allows the project manager to assure the client that the project will meet all its quality requirements without exception adhering to both internal and external quality guidelines. 

One of the interesting concepts you deal with when designing and implementing a project is the trade-offs that exist between management areas.

For instance, 

• if you try to reduce the time of the project, it will cost you more and quality will suffer.  
• If try to improve the quality, it will cost more and take more time.
• If you try to reduce the cost, quality will suffer and time will possibly increase.

How do I know this?

1. Reducing costs typically comes from using less labor (time increases) and quality (decreases).  Reducing costs can also come from using cheaper materials (quality and time suffers).
2. Reducing time typically involves hiring more people (increasing costs) and the manpower used does not pay attention to quality just the speed of the project.
3. Reducing quality will definitely impact the consumer or the end user of the project and if there another company involved as the end user then this company may not do business with you again.