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Planning and Managing IT Infrastructure

Notes  Schedule Control – controlling changes to the project schedule.
 Cost Control – controlling changes to the project budget.
 Quality Control – monitoring specific project results to determine if they comply with
relevant quality standards and identifying ways to eliminate causes of unsatisfactory
performance.
 Performance Reporting – collecting and disseminating performance information. This
includes status reporting, progress measurement, and forecasting.

 Risk Monitoring and Control – keeping track of identified risks, monitoring residual
risks and identifying new risks, ensuring the execution of risk plans, and evaluating their
effectiveness in reducing risk.
Closing Processes

The following components make the closing process.
 Contract Closeout – completion and settlement of the contract, including resolution of
any open items.

 Administrative Closure – generating, gathering, and disseminating information to
formalise phase or project completion, including evaluating the project and compiling
lessons learned for use in planning future projects or phases.

Task Make distinction between initiating processes and planning processes.

Self Assessment
Fill in the blanks:
8. IT project management is an area of project management that has an emphasis on
................................. technology.
9. Project management processes and ................................. processes overlap and interact
throughout the project.

10. ................................. processes formalises acceptance of the project or phase and brings it to
an orderly end.
11. ................................. measures the probability and impact of risks and estimates their
implications for project objectives.
12. ................................. refers to the documents or documentable items that are a result of the
process.

3.4 Project Management Knowledge Areas

Project management knowledge areas include all the aspects of the project management that are
required for the successful completion of a project on time with the best output. The project
management knowledge areas are defined in the Project Management Body of Knowledge
(PMBOK), which is a collection of all the process, procedures and knowledge areas that has been
accepted as the best and the most effective practices for project management.
As an internationally recognised standard (IEEE Std 1490-2003) has provided the fundamentals
of a project management applicable for all the types of projects whether it be construction,
software, engineering, automotive it provides the fundamentals of project management,
irrespective of the type of project be it construction, software, engineering or automotive.

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