Attendance at a local seminar (report) - Essay Example

ITM 419 Local Seminar Report April 23 SEMINAR ON PROJECT MANAGEMENT Keeping the aspect of growing need of project managers, a local seminar was conducted by the Project Management Institute on March, 17th, 2010 on the topic “Fundamentals of Project Management.” Jeff Walters, the Vice-President of Strategic Projects was the guest speaker on the occasion. The major focus of the seminar was on creating awareness and imparting knowledge about what is project management and moreover, the role of project managers in companies.

The seminar started with Walters giving a brief description about its company. Then he went on to explain the concept of Project Management. “Project management is a carefully planned and organized effort to accomplish a successful project,” (Lonergan, K) Walters explained, stressing on the dire need of project managers in the industry.Walters further informed the students about different factors which influence the success of a project. They were Project team, sponsor, customer, programme manager, operations and the sellers.

He mentioned that there were three crucial points related to project management also known as “triple constraint.” They are known as time, cost and scope.Walter mentioned the Work-Braeakdown-Structure where he described the project management tools, including, common sense, eyes, ears and all the other senses. He clearly noted that “trust but verify.”Dear Client, I have written what all I could understand from the pdf’s. If you think I am missing on some points do let me know. Apart from that, if you think I can pick up matter from the internet, I would do that.

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