Project Management

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PROJECT MANAGEMENT





TEACHER DR. JOHANNES LEHNER



REPORT OF READINGS



MARIA DEL CARMEN GUERRA TORRES







MAY, 2012-05-28







PROJECT MANAGEMENT IN SMALL TO MEDIUN-SIZE ENTERPRISES: MATCHING PROCESS TO NATURE OD THE FIRM.



Introduction



Project management can play a significant role in facilitating this contribution.Small to medium enterprises require less bureaucratic forms of project management than those used by larger. SME use project management both to manage operation operations, to deliver tailored or bespoke products to customers and manage innovation and growth. As a result of analysis to the case, I content that the project management required by SMEs will be very different the traditional formssuggested for larger projects.

TABLE 1. CARACTERISTICS OF ENTERPRISES

|MICRO/SMALL |MEDIUM/LARGE |RESULTS PROJECT MANAGEMENT PRACTICES |
|Strong sense of family |Formal and Structure |Strategic objectives |
|Low specialization|Project management specialized |Key performance indicators of their projects |
|People able to undertake a range of duties |People compliant and accepted control |Prefer more people focussed approaches to |
| | |project management |
|Don´t employspecialist PM( So project are |Greater specialization |With greater specialization there is greater |
|manage by people with other primary roles) | |need to coordinate the work of resources |


CONCLUSION



Project management is used to manage operation, manage growth and innovations. As result i fount that some firms applyproject management and some did not, all for different reason. As an example, the Rumanian education system does no teach engineers soft skills. They are led to believe that all problems can be solved by excellent engineering solution. US use project management, because they believe they need it to manage their commitment to their customers.

Small and medium enterprises look clouded by thelack of interest by CEO of project management. In medium size firms is much greater uses of specialist and formal coordination more authorization approaches to manage are supportive of this.

The medium and large enterprises has a common their culture and customs, these people are compliant and accepted control by others as part of the business model.

Finally i got a conclusion that differentcompanies require amount of project management methodology, but they share those point as fundamental part of project management and development.

✓ To define the client as an essential first step

✓ Milestones: to provide an overall vision of the project

✓ Work breakdown: Define activities required to do the work

✓ Responsibility assignment matrix: What work has to bedone and who will do it.









Based on what we saw in class is as follows:

In my opinion, the situation of small and medium enterprises in Mexico are very similar to those of Europe. SMEs in Mexico account for 99%, because the economic system has promoted low-income families do their business. It represents an opportunity for self employed and create new jobs. But the mainproblem in organizing them, since from the beginning did not have clear objectives, there is no vision of the company, do not know organized, among others, before any economic crisis disappear.


I am an entrepreneur, and in my experience I have received much support from the federal government to start my business and make it grow. I have received financial advice as well as also to increase my...