UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY
DEPARTMENT OF STRUCTURAL AND CONSTRUCTION
ENGINEERING
SC 430: GENERAL ENGINEERING PROCEDURES AND ETHICS
ASSIGNMENT 01
QN 2.2: A DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF EACH PROJECT MANAGEMENT
KNOWLEDGE AREA ACCORDING TO PMI, 2004.
COMPANY NAME: ERADYN ENGINEERING PROJECT MANAGEMENT COMPANY
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Mr. E.E Moshi
DATE OF SUBMISSION: 19th June, 2020
COMPANY MEMBERS
S/ NAME Reg. Number DEGREE PROGRAM
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01 NDOMA, ONESMO JOHN 2016-04-01761 BSc. in Mining Eng.
02 NKOKEGWA, ERASTO Z 2015-04-02241 BSc. in Metallurgy & Mineral Proc. Eng.
03 MATO, EGLON SABATH 2016-04-01664 BSc. in Chemical and Process Eng.
04 SINGU, REVOCATUS 2016-04-03667 BSc. in Petroleum Eng.
05 MABUGA, SIMONI 2016-04-08818 BSc. in Industrial Eng.
06 FUKKU, SHIJA 2016-04-02253 BSc. in Electrical Eng.
Project Management Knowledge Areas according to PMI, 2004
1. Project Integration Management
This knowledge area involves activities and processes to identify, define, combine, unify,
and coordinate the various processes and activities within project management process
groups. The integration project management processes include development of project
charter, development of preliminary project scope statement, development of project
management plan, directing and managing project execution., monitoring and controlling
project work, integrated change control and closing the project.
2. Project Scope Management
Project scope management is primarily concerned with defining and controlling what is
and is not to be included in the project. It includes all processes required to ensure that
the project encompasses all the work required, and only the work required to complete
the project successfully. In project scope management the scope is planned, defined,
work breakdown structure (WBS) is created, scope is verified and then controlled.
3. Project Time Management
All processes involved in ensuring timely completion of the project are under project
time management knowledge area. In this area activity is well defined, sequenced,
activity resource estimation, activity duration estimation, schedule is developed and then
controlled.
4. Project Cost Management
In this knowledge area, cost is planned, estimated, budgeted, and controlled to ensure that
project within the approved budget. Cost estimation involves developing an
approximation of the cost of the resources needed to complete the project. Budgeting
involves aggregating the estimated costs of individual activities or work packages to
establish a cost baseline. In control, factors that induce cost variances are monitored and
any other changes in the project budget are controlled.
5. Project Quality Management
This project management knowledge area includes the activities of the performing
organisation that determine quality policies, objectives, and responsibilities so that the
project will satisfy the need that it was intended to deliver. Quality planning, assurance
and control are the key steps undertaken in quality management. In quality planning
quality standards are established. Quality assurance dictates what activities to be done in
meeting the standards established. At the end of each project result, checking is done for
compliance of the specific results to the established standards, and ways to eliminate
causes of deviations from standards are put forward.
6. Project Human Resource Management
This area includes processes that organise, and manage the project team. The team is
made up of people with well-defined and assigned responsibilities towards project
completion. Project human resource management includes human resource planning,
acquiring project team, developing project team, managing project team.
7. Project Communications Management
This project area employs the processes required to ensure timely and appropriate
generation, collection, distribution, storage, retrieval, and ultimate disposition of project
information. It starts with communication planning, then distribution of information to
project stakeholders, performance reporting and managing stakeholders.
8. Project Risk Management
i. Risk Management Planning.
ii. Risk Identification.
iii. Qualitative Risk Analysis.
iv. Quantitative Risk Analysis.
v. Risk Response Planning.
vi. Risk Monitoring and Controlling.
9. Project Procurement Management
i. Planning Purchases and Acquisition.
ii. Plan Contracting.
iii. Request Seller Responses.
iv. Selecting Sellers.
v. Contract Administration.
vi. Contract Closure.
