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Unit 9: Collaborating on Project Management

3. Enhanced Effectiveness in Delivering Services: The same strategies that allowed you to Notes
successfully complete one project will serve you many times over.

4. Improved Growth and Development within your Team: Positive results not only command
respect but more often than not inspire your team to continue to look for ways to perform
more efficiently.

5. Greater Standing and Competitive Edge: This is not only a good benefit of project
management within the workplace but outside of it as well; word travels fast and there is
nothing like superior performance to secure your place in the marketplace.
6. Opportunities to expand your Services: A by-product of greater standing. Great
performance leads to more opportunities to succeed.
7. Better Flexibility: Perhaps one of the greatest benefits of project management is that it
allows for flexibility. Sure project management allows you to map out the strategy you
want to take see your project completed. But the beauty of such organization is that if you
discover a smarter direction to take, you can take it. For many small-to-midsize companies,
this alone is worth the price of admission.
8. Increased Risk Assessment: When all the players are lined up and your strategy is in place
potential risks will jump out and slap you in the face. And that’s the way it should be.

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Caution Project management provides a red flag at the right time: before you start working
on project completion.
9. Increase in Quality: Goes hand-in-hand with enhanced effectiveness

10. Increase in Quantity: I saved the best for last> and increase in quality is often the result of
better efficiency, a simple reminder regarding the benefits of project management.

Self Assessment

Fill in the blanks:

15. Project management provides a ……………….. that is easily followed and leads to project
completion.
16. Great performance leads to more …………………… to succeed.

Case Study Project and Resource Management Cloud Computing

loud computing is one of the latest buzzwords that our industry is so famous for
generating. Gartner broadly defines cloud computing as a style of computing
Cwhere IT-related capabilities are provided 'as a service,' allowing users to access
technology-enabled services from the Internet ("in the cloud") without knowledge of,
expertise with, or control over the technology infrastructure that supports them. Cloud
computing goes beyond using the Internet as a means of communication, but allows IT
vendors to provide services to consumers and businesses through hosted and virtualized
systems.

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