A Project Management Knowledge Structure for the 21st Century
 

Notes:

The four divisions shown are based on the premise that, for the project to be successful and achieve its highest potential, the WORK required in the Execution Phases needs to be managed differently according to the nature of the resulting PRODUCT.

These divisions are referred to as 'Areas of Project Management Application' (APMA). The APMA may apply to the whole project, if the project is relatively simple, or it may refer to the different major elements of a more complex project.

Alternatively, whole projects may be characterized by the work content of the major element, or elements that are required to produce the project's output or 'product' (i.e. the major work packages that represent the project's primary emphasis.)

Introduction | Endeavour | What Basis | Models | Concept Mapping
Theme | Objectives | Assumptions | Exclusion | Starting Point | Conclusions
Appendix A
| Appendix B

Appendix B
Knowledge Structure - Areas of Project Management Application

AREAS OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT APPLICATION (APMA) [Peer: Affects Client Environment; Determines Project Integration] & [Has sub-types...]

Tangible-Craft [Peer: Projects whose products are tangible and the result of craft work] & [Has as examples...]

Building, Engineering Works, Infrastructure Works, Construction generally [Has sub-parts...]

Impacts, limitations and risks of this technology

Regulatory and safety requirements, etc.

Industry-specific life-cycle phases [Has sub-parts...]

Project-specific stages

Tangible-Intellect [Peer: Projects whose products are tangible and the result of intellect work. The product is tangible but the main effort is intellectual] & [Has as examples...]

Development of new products in manufacturing [Has sub-parts...]

Impacts, limitations and risks of this technology

Economics, safety, competition

Industry-specific life-cycle phases [Has sub-parts...]

Project-specific stages

Intangible-Craft [Peer: Projects whose products are intangible and the result of craft work. The main value of the product is intangible but the effort to accomplish it is effectively routine 'craft' work] & [Has as examples...]

Plant maintenance shutdown, Updating of a procedures manual [Has sub-parts...]

Impacts, limitations and risks of this technology

Urgency, safety

Industry-specific life-cycle phases [Has sub-parts...]

Project-specific stages

Intangible-Intellect [Peer: Projects whose products are intangible and the result of intellect work. The main value of the product is in its intangible content and which is the result of intensive intellectual work] & [Has as examples...]

Research work, Developing a new theory, Writing new software, Writing a book [Has sub-parts...]

Impacts, limitations and risks of this technology

Opportunity, competition and copyright

Industry-specific life-cycle phases [Has sub-parts...]

Project-specific stages

  Appendix A

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