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* What is project management?
* The routes into the job
* Challenges of the job and qualities needed
* How project management is used within other
industries
* An activity around project management
* Questions and Answers

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Project management is a methodical approach to planning
and guiding project processes from start to finish. According
to the Project Management Institute, the processes are
guided through five stages: initiation, planning, executing,
controlling, and closing

4. * * A typical route is to take
responsibility for project delivery,
then run bigger and multiple
projects or get a professional
qualification
* There are 82 first degree courses in
project management in the UK.
Once involved in project delivery,
however, some training and
certification does not go amiss. It’s
hard to prepare for something you
don’t know is going to happen– but
having a system of formal training
and informal networks can help you
deal with it.
* Prince2, the UK government’s PM
method, is ubiquitous in the
software world. It offers basic ‘how-
to’ building blocks plus it is very
delivery-focussed.

6. What is Prince2?
Prince2 is a process-driven method, which identifies 40 different activities divided into
seven processes. The processes are the following:
Start-up of a project
In this phase, an executive manager and a project manager are appointed together
with a project management team. A project brief is prepared, and the project
approach is defined.
Initiation
The project brief is upgraded to a business case, and controls are set up to monitor
the project.
Direction
In this process, guidelines are established for how the project board should control the
overall project.
Control over a stage
The project is broken down into stages, which are controlled by assessing their
progress, examining their status and reporting highlights.
Managing stage boundaries
When a stage is nearly finished, the next stage is planned and the overall project plan
is updated.
Managing product delivery
Prince2 divides projects into work packages, and the method prescribes how such a
package should be executed and delivered.
Closure
This process includes the decommissioning of the project, the identification of follow-
up actions and the evaluation of the project.

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* In pairs
* Describe the characteristics of project management
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* What are the skills required to manage a project?
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* List some challenges/solutions you or others have experienced when managing
projects or participating in projects
Challenges Solutions

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