Project management involves using skills, tools, and techniques to deliver value and achieve goals. It has eight key elements: goal, timeline, budget, scope, team skills, motivation, chemistry, and leadership. The project management process includes planning, execution, and controlling projects over time and within budget using resources like funds, time, and people to achieve the desired goal. Construction project management involves five major stakeholders - the client, user, designers, executors, and public authorities - who must work together for successful project completion.

1. PROJECT MANAGEMENT: Introduction
Project management is the use of specific knowledge, skills, tools
and techniques to achieve/ deliver something of value to the goal of
the project.
Value can be optimization of funds used, time spent, labour involved
etc.
8 Elements of Management:
1. Goal
2. Project timeline
3. Project budget
4. Project Scope
5. Team Skill set
6. Team motivation
7. Team chemistry
8. Leadership

2. PROJECT MANAGEMENT: Introduction
Goal
Project Management
Planning
Execution
Controlling
Funds
Time
Human resource
Technical Resource
Goal Achieved
Management Elements

3. PROJECT MANAGEMENT: Introduction
Elements of Management
Project Goal: This element is the ‘initiator’ of the project. A
carefully considered project goal will finally deliver for the desired
objective. It can be very helpful to use the SMART goal framework
to set your goals. SMART stands
for Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Timely. The
goals of your project will help you determine the quality standards
of the completed work.
Project Timeline: This is an important element of management and
generally will have to be managed judiciously. There are number of
tools developed for this purpose like CPM and PERT. The entire
activity on timeline can be divided into smaller segments by
introducing micro goals or milestones to be achieved.

4. PROJECT MANAGEMENT: Introduction
Elements of Management
Project Budjet: This element is related to the objective of achieving
the goal. It affects all other elements of management like time,
human and technical resources etc. i.e. You employ more budjet
through human and technical resources to reduce the project
timeline.
Project Scope: project scope includes a list of all of the tasks,
deliverables, deadlines and resources required to hit your goal.
Managing your scope and understanding what deliverables fall in
and out of the allocated scope of the project is critical to ensuring
that work gets completed on time and to the required
specifications.

5. PROJECT MANAGEMENT: Introduction
Elements of Management
Team Skill set: This element is related to management of human
resources. Building a team with the requisite skill set to deliver the
work on time and on budget is crucial to arrive at the desired goal.
Team Motivation: This element is also related to human resource
management. People work better with appropriate motivation in
form of rewards and penalty in form of sense of achievement,
establishment of position in an hierarchal structure of the
organization , recognition etc.
Team Chemistry: People work better if they understand
/compliment / support each other. Management tools can be
employed to generate a team spirit which imporves the Team
Chemistry

6. PROJECT MANAGEMENT: Introduction
Elements of Management
Leadership: Finally, there has to be a continuous assessment of the
process of management through, firstly a ‘bird’s eye view’ of the
process and secondly by appropriate action taken to keep the
process on pre-decided track with a flexibility of incorporating
changes to gain from timely opportunities in the process or avoid
risks and threats.

7. PROJECT MANAGEMENT: Introduction
Managerial Cycle
Planning : 1.Set objectives
2. Secure resources
3. Form Strategy
Executing: 1. Organize
2. allocate resources
3. Guide execution
4. Co-ordinate effects
Controlling: 1. evaluate achievements
2. resolve problems
3. Make reports for
further planning

8. PROJECT MANAGEMENT: Introduction
Construction Project Management
The above structure can have some variations depending on the nature of project or
desired organizational setup.

9. PROJECT MANAGEMENT: Introduction
Construction Project Management: Participants
Five Major Participants/stakeholders in construction project are:
1. Client/Owner: Initiator of the Project
2. User: User of the end product
3. Designers: Architect and other consultants
4. Executors: Contractors, specialized construction agencies
5. Public Authorities, Agencies: Local Governments, Development
Authorities etc.

10. PROJECT MANAGEMENT: Introduction
Construction Project Management: Participants
Client: client can be an individual, organization or a government department or a corporate
body. The relation of a client with the rest of the participants depends on type of client i.e.
government department as a client will have other participant as other government
organizations While private organizations will have more freedom of selecting/employing
other participants.
Users: users are the most important participant since he will be using and maintaining the
final product of the project but very often this participant is most neglected in terms of their
opinion at the time of decision making on various aspect of the project, especially when the
user is not the client but a third party. i.e. Health ministry is the client for project of
government hospitals but the users are the doctors and other supporting staff which more
often do not have a say in decision making during designing or execution of the project.

11. PROJECT MANAGEMENT: Introduction
Construction Project Management: Participants
Designers: This participant is responsible for translating/interpreting the client’s
requirements into actual facilities to be constructed. In building projects, architect is a
designer who will require to involve other specialists like RCC consultants, services consultants
and supporting subordinates like draftsman, Quantity surveyors etc.
Executors: this participant is responsible for actual physical construction of the project.
They are more often a private organization engaged by the client by contractual agreements
through a process of engagement which may involve tender document. When client
(government deparment) have in-house team then it is said to be done by ‘Direct Labour’. Also
client may place order for specialized item or equipment directly to the suppliers. These items
are necessary for the completion of the project i.e. installation of elevators or escalators, then
these suppliers are also termed as executors.