Characteristics of project management?

Project management is a complicated work. Project management is generally composed of multiple parts, the work spans multiple organizations, and it needs to use the knowledge of multiple disciplines to solve problems; There are usually many unknown factors in the implementation of project work, and each factor is often uncertain; It is also necessary to organize people with different experiences and from different organizations in a temporary organization to achieve the project objectives under strict constraints such as technical performance, cost and schedule. All these factors determine that project management is a very complicated work, and its complexity is very different from that of general production management.

(2) The project management is creative. Because of the one-off characteristics of the project, it needs to take risks and creativity. This is also the main difference from general repetitive management. The creativity of the project depends on the development and support of science and technology. The development of modern science and technology has two obvious characteristics:

First, inheritance is cumulative, that is, human beings can imitate the experience of predecessors and inherit their knowledge, experience and achievements. On this basis, move forward;

The second is comprehensiveness, that is, to solve complex projects, it is often necessary to rely on and synthesize the achievements of various disciplines and combine various technologies to achieve a leap or faster development of science and technology.

(3) The project has its life cycle. The essence of project management is to plan and control one-off work and achieve the predetermined goal within the specified time limit. Once the goal is achieved, the project loses its meaning of existence and disintegrates. Therefore, the project has a predictable life cycle.

(4) Project management has a special organizational structure. Project management requires centralized leadership and the establishment of a special project organization. The complexity of a project varies greatly with its scope. The bigger and more complex the project, the more disciplines and technologies it contains or involves. Most problems that may occur during the project run through various organizations and departments, and they need these different departments to make quick, interrelated and interdependent responses. However, the traditional linear functional organizations cannot meet a large number of horizontal coordination needs as soon as possible, and it is necessary to establish decision-making mechanisms and corresponding specialized organizations around specific tasks. Such an organization is not bound by any existing organization, and is composed of professionals from different professions and departments. Therefore, complex projects involving multiple disciplines often adopt matrix organization mode, which is an organization mode that pays attention to obtaining the benefits of both project organization form and functional organization form.

It can be seen that project management is especially suitable for those one-off tasks with heavy responsibilities, complex relationships, tight time and limited resources.