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The Corporate Angle

Mr. Sumeet Rajan Program Management Executive at Flex, PRICE2 Agile.

Managing people in Project management

Introduction

What is a Project - According to PMI’s PMBOK a project is defined as a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service, or result?

What is project management - Project management is the application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements. So, what so important about managing people in project management? It's people who carry out the activities. The importance of budget, time, and quality to the success of projects means that they are often managed as technical systems rather than behavioral systems. Yet mismanagement of the ‘people’ aspects of projects is as likely to contribute to their failure as neglect of the ‘hard’ dimensions of project management. This is because the successful implementation of any kind of project requires the effective deployment of human as well as material resources. Indeed, without people, no project could exist in the first place. A project manager must manage, communicate with, and connect with lots of people during the entire project duration and get them involved in completing project activities and moving the project forward. The success of the project lies in the hands of these people, how they execute/carry out their respective project activities and how they interact with each other and the stakeholders on the project.

Project management institute’s PMP (Project management professional) certification is one most well-recognized certification in project management has recently revised their exam to include 42% of their questions with people management which shows that emphases are more on people management than any other domains.

To conclude, People are the key components of project management and they are often neglected.

Concept

Bruce Tuckman’s The Five Stages of Team Development. Every team goes through the five