Constraints in Project Management

Constraints in Project Management

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July 26 , 2009

Constraints in Project Management

A project is a task or a set of tasks that have to be completed within a time and resource constraint . It has a definite time interval , a cost budget and a scope . To give an example of a project , it could be a multi-million dollar software being developed at Microsoft for managing emails or it could simply be redoing your room

What is Project Management then ? Project Management is planning and

organizing these resources to make a project successful . This gives rise to another question - what makes a project successful ? A project is successful when its outcome is what was desired or at the very least expected and that this project was completed within time and resource budgets

In this , we will study the different kind of constraints in project management . These include : defining the scope (and scope constraints , time- , cost- constraints , and quality of the project itself

As a project manager , constraints in project management time , cost and scope are essential to stay within to make a project a success Although , it should be noted that managing these budgets alone does not make a project successful

A scope is the range of something . In the context of project management a scope is what the project should and should not achieve . In other words , the scope decides what the final product is going to look like after having done the required work...