The And Current Project Management Approaches - 1643 Words

1. Introduction The purposes of managing projects are obtaining specific goals with proper planing, organizing, motivating and controlling of resources. Various methods and studies are being used for achieving the best possible outcomes of projects. However, the status quo shows the drawbacks of current projects management. LPDS is the method known as a excellent means that functions on saving resources, and minimuns the costs of projects. ‘Lean production ’ is named by a MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) research group for making the system firstly generated by the Toyota Motor Corporation more easily to accept in implementing projects (Mahsa, 2013). In this article, the comparisons between LPDS and current project management†¦show more content†¦This is the responsibility of the project manager and team to assign which particular areas will be handled by whom or who fits better for a particular activity. Project Management Processes The process follows the concept of PDCA which is the cycle of plan, do, check and act. The endpoint of this part of cycle becomes the starting point of the next part following the first part. Project Management Process Groups (Principles) There are five major independent groups which sequentially perform during the execution of the project. Base on the PMBOK, the scope of them will be listed below: ï  ¬Initiating Process Group: this group is responsible for defining and authorizing the plan of the project; ï  ¬Planning Process Group: this bunch of people set the objective and scope of the project hereby planning the series of activities to meet the set scope as well as the objective; ï  ¬Executive Process Group: this group focuses on assigning activities to the appropriate lot to carry out the project plan; ï  ¬Monitoring and Controlling Process Group: they monitoring from time to time the progress of the project execution and take necessary actions if needed to go as per the scheduled plan; ï  ¬Closing Process Group: it sequentially ends up the project authorizing the outcome of the project. Process Interaction A project can be phased or divided into phases, the group tends to interact within the phase or cross the phases. The output of one process group impacts the other processes.