List of project management topics

This list of project management topics gives an overview of project management topics.

Project management activities

Project management is composed of several different types of activities such as:

• Analysis and design of objectives and events
• Planning the work according to the objectives
• Assessing and controlling risk (or risk management)
• Estimating resources
• Allocation of resources
• Organizing the work
• Acquiring human and material resources
• Assigning tasks
• Directing activities
• Controlling project execution
• Tracking and reporting progress (Management information system)
• Analyzing the results based on the facts achieved
• Defining the products of the project
• Forecasting future trends in the project
• Quality management
• Issues management
• Issue solving
• Defect prevention
• Identifying, managing & controlling changes
• Project closure (and project debrief)
• Communicating to stakeholders

Project management artifacts

The following documents serve to clarify objectives and deliverables and to align sponsors, clients, and project team's expectations.

• Project charter
• Preliminary scope statement / Statement of work
• Business case / Feasibility study
• Scope statement / Terms of reference
• Project management plan / Project initiation document
• Work breakdown structure
• Change control plan
• Risk management plan
• Risk breakdown structure
• Communications plan
• Governance model
• Risk register
• Issue log
• Action item list
• Resource management plan
• Project schedule
• Project status report
• Responsibility assignment (RACI) matrix
• Database of lessons learned
• Stakeholder analysis
• Document management

Project management tools

Project management tools include following:

Financial tools

• Earned value management

Risk management tools

• Cause-and-effect diagram
• Risk register
• SWOT analysis

General management tools

• Online tools to run a project health check (Ph-Check tool), take a baseline or checkpoint, or to generate highlight, or status reports.
• Project management software

Scheduling charts

• PERT charts
• Gantt charts
• Event chain diagram
• Time–distance diagram

Communication aids for teams

• Responsibility assignment (RACI) matrix
• Run charts
• Project cycle optimisation (PCO)
• Participatory impact pathways analysis (An approach for developing common understanding and consensus amongst project participants and stakeholders as to how the project will achieve its goal)
• Logical framework approach

Project management organisations

• Project Management Institute
• International Project Management Association

Related lists

• Glossary of project management
• List of management topics
• List of production topics
• List of project management software
• List of Theory of Constraints topics
• Timeline of project management
• List of mind mapping software

External links

• Wideman Comparative Glossary of Project Management Terms
• AACE International Cost Engineering Terminology
• Tenrox Glossary of Project Management Terms