Exploring Project Management: Techniques and Standards

Introduction

For more than 25 years, The Little Black Book of Project Management has been introducing project managers to the incredibly effective and logical project management skill and methods to help them achieve their goal. This book has been flooded with very nee project management techniques as well as the latest standards of the Project management body of Knowledge (PMBOK) .accepted by PMI (Project Management Institute).
The book contains the most effective methods of completing a project within its budget, schedule, and the resource constraints. It briefly explains all the stage process of every major project goes through. From creating the plan to monitoring and evaluation, there is a lot for project managers and supervisors to learn.

In chapter 9, Michael C.Thomsett describes the procedure of conducting the project review. He said, “The role of the manager is to keep your team working toward the final deadline, within the budget, and in the line with the goals of the project and on a broader field to produce the result of the highest possible quality and accuracy.”
Project monitoring and controlling activities go along with Project Execution Process group so that while the project being done the status of the project and be controlled by the appropriate level of oversight and corrective action.
Scheduling control is another main topic Thomsett wrote about in the book. This topic especially focuses the time management section of a project. The more effort put into developing the initial schedule, the higher chances for meeting deadlines, both for phases and the final project. Michael C.Thomsett summarized 7 basic steps to create a project schedule. These are followings:- o Identify phases o Plan start dates, o Estimates

Conclusion
When you are a project manager of a major project, one thing is certain, when the project is over, your reputation in your organization will either be better or worse depends on the how the project works out. This book is designed to help all project managers take charge of any major project and its individual responsibility. Michael Thomsett covers all the stages for a project to succeed. He stuffs a massive and impressive amount of words into 205 pages, although few times the text reads as if it is also the product of flow chart. Thomsett views on project management as more science than art, for example, that project managers should not build a “fudge factor” or “float into their budgets”. If you already are an accomplished project manager this book will seem basic to you. However if you recently started on this part or share the basics with your team member, you will find it quite helpful and