Project Management

Project management consists in the engineering supervision of a project to ensure compliance with its targets (SCOPE), the timing (TIME), costs and resources (COST) to reach the level of requested quality (QUALITY).

The project manager of CM Progetta is the person who, by applying the management criteria, supervises with analytical skills and management, the organization of activities that may affect the success of a project by limiting the risks of failure or customer dissatisfaction.

CM Progetta ensures the success of turnkey contract offering a project management services in the luxury furnishings sector, thanks to decades of accumulated experience in jobs carried out internationally.

CM Progetta can provide the PM which, assisted by experienced professionals in the sectors involved, is able to satisfy every request or can give important information to the customer about any anomalies that affect the feasibility of a project.

The specific experience on a single sector is no longer sufficient.

A lot of experience in a specific and unique industry branch hardly manage  to give a complete overview of the methods, costs, the risks, appropriate communication systems and software required to complete a contract, or a part of it.

To us, the main goal is to predict realistic costs in order to avoid surprises both for the customer and our organization.

 

CM Progetta PROJECT MANAGEMENT

The project management is the application of a working methodology which we define here in 5 stages. This are main  processes given by a set of interrelated actions and activities performed to achieve a particular product, service or result.

    1. Start

    2. Planning

    3. Execution

    4. Monitoring and Control

    5. Closing

By adopting the system of reference of the PMBOK®, CM Progetta uses these processes by applying them as part of orders in the furniture industry using some of the activities such as:

• analysis and goal setting

• work planning according to the targets whit timing expectation, costs and other indicators of the project;

• detection and control of risks (risk management);

• assessment and planning of the necessary resources;

• organization of work and human resources, task assignment with management and coordination of activities;

• definition and monitoring of corrective actions necessary to restore the structure in the project with the goals;

• quality management;

• management and problem solving.

Among the first tasks to be performed by a project manager there are the analysis and clear definition of the goals requested by the customer.

 

The client's goals are the results of the products and services (deliverables) to be implemented during the project lifecycle.

Subsequently, the project manager should prepare a work plan containing all of the activities and assigning tasks to team members with deadlines for completion of each activity.

In the plan, the project manager, must establish a budget that would cover all the expenses necessary to achieve the project goals and unforeseen contingencies, without allowing cost overruns agreed with the client.

At the end, he/she will have to look after the plan implementation, checking of the correct execution of the works up to their completion.

 

Principles and Restrictions of the PMBOK® project: the triangle of the triple restriction

In geometry we know that, given the values of the three sides, we can calculate the area of the triangle, or that, knowing the area and the value of the two sides, we can calculate the length of the third side because there is a precise link between these values.

In fact, every change on one of the sides of the triangle will have an effect on the other two and all together will produce a different qualitative configuration.

For example, you may decide to change the completion dates to respect the quality but this will inevitably lead to a review of the costs.

The resources involved in the project are considered a cost item. Therefore, if you change the resources to handle a higher or lower amount of work to reduce or accelerate the delivery of a project or deliverables, costs will increase or decrease proportionately.


In most projects at least one of the two sides is fixed and therefore you have to adjust the remaining two in order to respect the terms of reference. In other cases there are two fixed sides (time and cost), and the result will inevitably have an impact on the deliverables of the project and their quality.

The quality is at the centre of the triangle and influence all sides and in turn is influenced by variations on each side.

Quality is not one of the elements of the triangle but is the result of actions taken by the Project Manager with respect to time, cost and scope of the project (Scope).

 

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