What are the benefits of developing Project Management Skills? Why?

Individual Submission-1

For Residency Project #1 you will be working to answer the following questions on Project Management. The final deliverable (paper) should include the following:

QUESTIONS

  1. What is Project Management? Why is it important?
  2. What are the benefits of developing Project Management Skills? Why?
  3. Below is a list of project management approaches? Pick 3 to compare and contrast. Make sure to provide an overview of each of the 3 approaches, as well.
  • Agile Project Management
  • Waterfall Project Management
  • Process-Based Management
  • Benefits Realization Management
  • Critical Chain Project Management
  • Extreme Project Management
  • Lean Project Management
  • Earned Value Management
  1. What phases in a project’s lifecycle are recognized by PMI (Project Management Institute) and what is the PM’s responsibility in each phase?
  2. What is Stakeholder Management? How can poor stakeholder management impact a project?
  3. What is Risk? How can risk impact a project? Is risk always negative?
  4. What is the “3-legged stool” in project management? Explain.
  5. Why do projects fail? Provide examples of the type of reasons for project failure.
  6. When a project fails who should take responsibility? What about when a project is a success?