Friday, 31 August 2012

Planets Vs PMI Knowledge Areas

We have 9 PMI Knowledge areas. They are,

1. Scope Management - Deals with work and work related area
2. Schedule Management - Definition of task, mapping of resources, creating Work Breakdown Structures
3. Cost Management - Deals with all aspect of financials of the project. Analyse amount of work achieved Vs amount of money spent. Are we into the planned budget are not?
4. Quality Management - Are we following as per process defined at the organisation, account, project level?
5. HR Management - Are we have correct people at correct positions? Did we assign correct roles and responsibilities?
6. Communication Management - How offen & frequent we are engaging with our stakeholders? Are we providing correct & enough information? For a public limited company, even publishing quarterly reports to government and shareholders, is also part of this knowledge area.
7. Risk Management - How are we anticipating risks to execute project? Did we have enough preventive / corrective action planned?
8. Vendor Management - In case if we outsource any of our project work to external vendors, how do we manage them to have deliverables as per our expectations.
9. Integration Management - How are integrating all the above mentioned aspects with reference to the objectives? In case of any deviation at any level, how do balance and achieve final objective.

From Astrology perspective we have 7 planets and 2 shadow planets. They are,

1. Sun - Administrative, Disciplined
2. Moon - Fast moving planet
3. Mars - Strong, firm, and vibrant
4. Mercury - Calculative and statistical, mathematical
5. Jupiter - Financial oriented
6. Venus - Charismatics, Attractive
7. Saturn - Slow moving, hard to understand
8. Rahu - Break the boundaries
9. Kethu - Expect the unexpected

Based on exposure of above mentioned topics, I just started mapping both these disciplines like this.

1. Sun - Integration Management
2. Moon - Schedule Management
3. Mars - Communication Management
4. Mercury - Quality Management
5. Jupiter - Cost Management
6. Venus - HR Management
7. Saturn - Scope Management
8. Rahu - Vendor Management
9. Kethu - Risk Management

1 to 7 - reflections of Sunday to Saturday, rest of them are additional.

This is one of the technique adopted in my training for upcoming project managers, to remember all the knowledge areas of project management.

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