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Week1 - Lesson1 - What Is Project Management, Is Project Management An Art or Science

This document provides an introduction and context for a course on project planning and control. It introduces the instructor, Koshy Varghese, and discusses the topics that will be covered in the first week, including an overview of what project management is and whether it is considered an art or a science. Key points made are that project management involves planning, organizing, securing and managing resources to successfully complete unique temporary projects, and that it has elements of both an art through personal skills and a science through structured and repeatable processes.

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Week1 - Lesson1 - What Is Project Management, Is Project Management An Art or Science

This document provides an introduction and context for a course on project planning and control. It introduces the instructor, Koshy Varghese, and discusses the topics that will be covered in the first week, including an overview of what project management is and whether it is considered an art or a science. Key points made are that project management involves planning, organizing, securing and managing resources to successfully complete unique temporary projects, and that it has elements of both an art through personal skills and a science through structured and repeatable processes.

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Project Planning & Control

Introduction, Course Context,


Construction Project Management
Week 1
Koshy Varghese, Ph.D.
Professor
Building Technology & Construction Management
Department of Civil Engineering
I.I.T. Madras

Project Planning & Control


Lesson 1
What is Project Management?, Is
Project Management an Art/ Science?
Koshy Varghese, Ph.D.
Professor
Building Technology & Construction Management
Department of Civil Engineering
I.I.T. Madras

Course Context Setting


What is Project Management ?

Management & Project Management


Management ?
"To manage is to forecast and to plan, to organize, to command, to coordinate and to control. Henri Fayol- Industrial and General Administration.
Project ?
Its a temporary group activity designed to produce a unique product,
service or result. Project Management Institute - PMI
Project management is the discipline of planning, organizing, securing
and managing resources to bring about the successful completion
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project management

Project management, is the application of knowledge, skills and


techniques to execute projects effectively and efficiently
Project Management Institute - PMI

Process & Project Management


Process - repetitive

Projects- unique

Course Context Setting


What is Project Management ?

Is Management an Art or Science ?

Art vs. Science


Person Dependent

System Dependent
Repeatable Results
Quantification

Ref: Harold Schroeder Assessing the Art and Science of Project Management: PM World Today November 2009 (Vol XI, Issue XI)

Management - relatively new science

Compared with
Engineering
Medicine
Physics/Chemistry
Architecture (?)

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