The process of making sure that appropriate project related information is generated, collected, stored, retrieved and distributed. It is an important link between people, ideas and information necessary for project progress. Major processes include communication planning, information distribution, performance reporting and administrative closure.

Human resource management includes processes required to make most effective use of the people involved with the project. It includes all the project stakeholders – sponsors, customers, individual contributors, partner and others. Major processes in HR management are organizational planning, staff acquisition and team development.

Agile software development methods provide a novel way of approaching software engineering problems. Learn here in this session, about the agile methodologies and valued benefits they bring to an organization

Integration management includes the processes and activities needed to identify, define, combine, unify and coordinate various processes of project management and its process groups. Any change required to any other knowledge area has to be approved and integrated with other activities. It entails making choices about resource allocation, making trade-offs among competing objectives and alternatives and managing interdependencies among knowledge areas.

Includes the processes required to acquire goods and services, to attain project scope, from outside project organization. Major processes are Procurement planning – determine when and what to acquire.

Project scope management includes processes required to ensure that project includes all the work and only the work required to complete the project successfully. Scope defines the work that has to be completed to deliver product / service with specified features and functions.

objective is to acquire a thorough understanding the subject of project management and its core area. Project management is application of knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements.

This topic provides insight on the concept of Grid Computing. Important aspects of grid are discussed. Certain interesting statistics of the grid would be particularly interesting for the students.