what is the meaning of project management?
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Project management is the function or job of managing a project, its a skill require in handling a project, from the idea, brain storming, to scheduling and task allocation, to actual delegation of work, overseeing entire work to final closing of a project.
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Quality involves what a final project looks like. That is to say is it properly completed. This means both visible and invisible aspects. High quality means that every aspect has been thought through and works. Low quality means that few aspects have been considered.\n\nQuality has many impacts on project management. If a project manager strives for a high quality product or service, more time and testing may have to be put in to the effort. For lower quality output much less time will be put in.\n\nDecisions have to be made as to whether a product meets the quality standards that the project requires.\n\nA great example is completing road work. If the ground settles under a newly paved road, the road will sink and crack. This is the type of work that requires high quality and much more time to make sure that it is completed properly.\n\nLower quality products include plastic items. Many of the plastic toys from Hong Kong used to be poorly cut and quite rough. This low quality made them possibly dangerous to children.\n\nTake care,\nTroy
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Job done, from a project management point of view.
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Management \nA course dealing with planned project execution and management in organizations; ... Course content arranged with faculty. MGT 499. Directed Individual ...www.cnuas.edu/Programs/DegreePrograms/CourseDesc/Management.asp - 27k - Cached - More from this site \nCourse Technology -Management of Information Security (0619215151) \n... covered in this text is often part of a capstone course in an ... Readings and Cases in the Management of Information Security. Learn about the. MIS Series ...www.course.com/catalog/product.cfm?isbn=0-619-21515-1 - 24k - Cached - More from this site \nCourse Technology - Catalog \nProject Management. 27 titles found in 5 subcategories. • Microsoft Project 2003 ... The Apprentice has given to the importance of good project management...www.course.com/catalog/subcategory.cfm?category=Project+Management - 31k - Cached - More from this site \nCOURSE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS (PDF) \nSimply because content is placed online in a course management system does ... a Good Start – Restricting access to copyrighted content in course management ...www.copyright.com/media/pdfs/Using-Course-Management-Systems.pdf
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For the "beginner" project manager I recommend Project Management for Dummies.  It's inexpensive, easy to read, and contains step-by-step instructions.\n\nFor a more advanced read there's always Kerzner's Project Management -  A Systems Approach.  This is an industry standard - more expensive, and aimed more at project management in medium/large organizations.\n\nFor best practices you may want to review PMI's Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) but this is not a how-to book.  More a list of things that you should be doing.
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Management can be loosely defined as the methodologies and myriad of systems used to "manage" or "control" a business, organisation or a project/task.\n\nThere are many differing styles and philosophies of management, some of which can be contradictory. For example, many businesses/companies use a traditional "hierarchical" style of management that focuses on managing the business "from the top down" without giving much power over decision-making and direction to employees lower in the company. There are other businesses/companies that take a more open or "democratic" approach to management that tends to value input from lower levels of the company and often incorporates such input when making important decisions about company direction or strategy. Creative businesses such as games developers or design companies often adopt the latter style of management.\n\nManagement covers a very wide range of issues/factors that are relevant in achieving "good" management and include areas such as Ethics & Leadership, Human Resource Management, Finance & Accounting, Marketing & Public and/or Internal Relations, Operations Management, etc.\n\nAs you can see, Accounting is just one part of Management and deals with the recording and reporting of financial data in relation to the business, organisation or project. Accounting is important because it is needed for tax purposes and for other legal obligations but also because it is through good accounting that the managers of an entity can see and understand where their business is currently at and where it might be headed. Accounting is one of the more "objective" methods of evaluating or analysing a business and its weak and strong points and depending on how good or bad the accounting is, can be an important factor (but certainly not the only factor) in the success or failure of a company or project.
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RUP is a standardized software development process.  It had its origins in the unified modeling language.  Rational Corp. took the UML and developed a standardized process for implementing projects in a series of iterations based on its UML tools.  IBM bought Rational and continued RUP development.  IBM recently donated part of its RUP intellectual property to the open source community.  See link in sources for more info.\n\nThe second part of your question is a little harder.  How RUP relates to project managment is that RUP is a process.  It defines the steps to be taken to produce a product and it defines the deliverables to be produced at each phase.  So, the relationship between RUP and project management is RUP defines the artifacts to be produced and PM strives to manage the cost and schedule associated with producing those artifacts.
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I'm not aware of any formal definition of the term in project management, but generally I would interrupt it to mean the high-level project scope and assumptions.\n\neg. To build a widget in less than six months with five people for less than $100,000, that will work underwater for five hours within having to be recharged.  It must also be made from plastic, and be black in color.
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The term "management" characterizes the process of and/or the personnel leading and directing all or part of an organization (often a business) through the deployment and manipulation of resources (human, financial, material, intellectual or intangible).\n\nHenri Fayol considers management consisting of five functions[1]:\n\nplanning \norganizing \nleading \nco-ordinating \ncontrolling. \nSome people, however, find this definition, while useful, far too narrow. The phrase "management is what managers do" occurs widely, suggesting the difficulty of defining management, the shifting nature of definitions, and the connection of managerial practices with the existence of a managerial cadre or class.\n\nOne habit of thought regards management as equivalent to "business administration", although this then excludes management in places outside commerce, as for example in charities and in the public sector. Nonetheless, university departments which teach management usually get called "business schools".\n\nSpeakers of English may also use the term "management" or "the management" as a collective word describing the managers of an organization, for example of a corporation.\n\nFrom the systemic perspective, in the TOGA (Top-down Object-based Goal-oriented Approach) meta-theory, [2], management consists of high-level mental and communication activity (by tasks emission), of the indirect goal-oriented control of the domain of interest using autonomous execution and information entities/agents/units. Management has as its main generic missions:\n\nconfrontation of objectives with the possibilities \nplanning \nleading of autonomous human units towards achieving an intended goal \nEvery such managerial situation requires on-going decision-making.
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As a previous answer suggested, an online PM course may not be the best way to go.  There are plenty of them - and of course if they are online then it doesn't normally matter where in the world they are coming from.\n\nThe issue is that project management is a very participatory discipline, and it's difficult to get a true sense of it sitting at a computer.  At least you'll want to get one with live sessions and interaction.
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This question can have different answers depending on the kind of agency (traditional marketing? web-only shop? ad sales? startup?). \n\nIn general, a project manager is responsible for taking "ownership" of  a product or initiative and making sure it moves forward. Sometimes this means hiring the team to make it happen, but usually you're just herding a team already in place. You help set deadlines, navigate obstacles, track the budget and timeline, facilitate communication and write reports about the progress. You often have to give presentations or interact regularly with both upper management and middle/lower management and worker bees so it helps if you can talk intelligently about such wide-ranging topics as HR, technical specs and art/design.\n\nEssentially, you have to keep things moving in all areas, because if your project grinds to a halt or goes down in flames - it's your fault.\n\nOn the flip side, you get a little credit when it goes flawlessly.
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Regardless of topic or size, one of the first steps to a successful project is breaking down the work to be done into manageable chunks.  Official terminology calls this decomposing the project.  It involves taking the scope, resources and time, putting them into a work breakdown structure (WBS) and creating a project plan.\n\nThere are tons of resources on the topic of project management on the web.  A few great starting points are the links below.  Of course, a search engine, can help you with specific problems.
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The difference in the subject treated but not in the methodology they all follow the Body of Knowledge: The "Project Management Body of Knowledge" (PMBOK®) is an inclusive term that describes the sum of knowledge within the profession of project management. This full body of knowledge includes knowledge of proven, traditional practices, which are widely applied, as well as knowledge of innovative and advanced practices, which may have seen more limited use. The full body of knowledge concerning project management is that which resides with the practitioners and academics that apply and advance it.
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Answer the following three questions as briefly and to the point as possible. 1) What the project is, expressed as an end result, 2) Why the project is important to the organization, ie, does is make money, save money, or provide tools for the organization to be more effective, 3) How will you know when the project is complete? (have you ever known a project that NEVER ends?!!!)
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Project Manager      == First vip in Project\nSystem Analyst       == Second/Third vip in project\n\nProject manager      == He/She will keep contacts with client\nSA                   == He/She Never contacts with client/most\n\nPM                   == He keeps architect the project.\nSA                   == He keeps impliment the project.\n\nPM                   == Issues maily comes from SA not from other team mates regarding project.\nSA                   == He/she keeps issues in project.\n\nPM                   == Tension free job.\nSA                   == Peak Tension\n\nPM                   == Will get more salary\nSA                   == Will get less salary\n\nPM                   == Wont get busy schedule.\nSA                   == Will be always busy.\n\nPM                   == Can enjoy @ any time.\nSA                   == Has to work.. work... work..\n\nPM                   == I dont want now.\nSA                   == I want to be a Good SA
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the achievement of something desired, planned, or attempted. \n\nEach individual person decides on what basis they are going to measure how successful they are.
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When developing a project schedule using a project management package such as MS Project, you can set up different calendars for different people.  \n\nEach calendar represents when that person (or type of person) is available to work.  This might be certain days of the week and/or include holidays and vacations.  In might even reflect that some people start at 7:00, others at 9:00, depending on how accurate you need to be.  \n\nThis way as you schedule a task the tool can check all the calendars to make sure that the required people are in fact available.