Project Institute Management

The Project Management Institute , founded in 1969, is an professional association with nonlucrative goal which proposes methods of Project management. Its seat is with Philadelphia in Pennsylvania (the United States), it counts more than 200.000 members divided in 125 countries. It publishes standards relating to the project management and is in load of the Certification processes of project management.

SME

One usually uses term SME to define the methodology of project management defended by Project Management Institute.

Methodology

Its bases rest on 9 fields of knowledge:

integration
the contents
the deadlines
the costs
quality
human resources
the communication
the risks
the provisioning

methodology SME proposes 44 processes distributed in the various fields of knowledge.

The project is cut out in 5 phases:

initialization
planning
the execution
control and the follow-up
the fence

the 44 processes can be then to be placed in the form of matrix in the fields of knowledge for each phase of the project.

Like any process, one can associate data input and output data to him. the processes are thus connected throughout the project.

Principal the deliverable associated ones are:

the statement of the preliminary contents
the statement of detailed contents
the plan of management of the project (it is the regrouping of the 7 plans of management resulting from each field of knowledge)
the plan of quality assurance
the register of the modifications
…

Price

Each year the Institute decrees prices in the field of the project management, SME Project off the Year Award , since 1974; SME Fellow Award , since 1982; SME Flax Stuckenbruck Persson off the Year , since 1976; SME Distinguished Contribution Award , since 1980; SME David I. Cleland Project Management Literature Award , since 1999; SME Research Achievement Award , since 2003; SME Professional Development Provider off the Year Award , since 2004 and SME Professional Development Product off the Year Award , since 2004.

Among the member elects of these prices one can quote the following projects the Winter Olympics of 2002, Mars Pathfinder, the Advantix system of Kodak, the extension of the Terminal of Delta Airlines to LAX, etc

Some publications

The Implementation off Project Management: The Professional' S Handbook ; HarperCollins Publishers; 1981; ISBN 978-0201072600
Q&A (Boxes in Project and Program Management Series) ; 1997; ISBN 978-1880410219
PMBOK has off Guide to the Project Management Body Knowledge ; 2000; ISBN 978-1880410233
Combined Standards Glossary ; 2005; ISBN 978-1930699496
Standard For Program Management ; 2006; ISBN 978-1930699540

External bonds

Project Institute Management (PMI)

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