Project management in the modern sense began in the early 1960’s, the need for project management was developed by businesses who released the benefits of managing work. So project management is not a new fad, it is a professional task that has wide acceptance in industries from government to technology. management of construction projects include a three steps process that require the involvement of all parties on work site, Each step requires the commitment and dedication of all project team members, all are essential to the successful outcome of a construction project, and to long term success of a construction firm.
1. Definitions:
1.1 Definition of project:
A project is a temporary with starting time activity which has specific goals and conditions, defined responsibilities, a budgeted, a planning, a fixed end date and multiple parties involved.
1.2 Definition of project management:
Project management is the discipline of managing all the project resources and aspects in a manner leads to deliver all the outputs which is required to complete the project within a defined time, scope, cost and efforts.
We have three major project management tasks for the project manager:
1. Setting goals: to determine the goals of the project and what is the project is aim to.
2. Creating a project management system.
We have to focus on these three elements:
· Time; to insure the work is done in the correct order. For any project there should be a start and finish time.
· Cost; the work must be performed efficiently. Cost estimation for the project should be performed and studying the final benefits of this project.
· Resources; determine when and how much of resources. The availability of these resources and its influence in total cost and time duration of the project.
· Finances; financial control means accurately predicting the amount of each needed to support work done on the job.