Project Management activity is the core of successful completion of a software project. Mis-managed projects are the primary reason for failure of many software projects world over. A well managed project results in completing a project "on-time and within budget"leading to a satisfied cutomer and growth in business.

An organization's management is concerned about the planned execution of the software projects and need timely information on the performance of the projects. A well defined project management practices would relieve the management of the surprises and risks and at the same time enabling the project teams to work at a high productivity levels. In addition, it results into a consistent delivery of a quality products and services to the clients.

QPI Global has built into its Project Management training modules, several key factors that include:
 

• Definition of a Project Management

• Roles & Responsibilities of a Project Manager
   

• Project scope management
   

• Estimation of project size, efforts, schedule etc
   

• Resource estimation (human, hardware & software etc)
   

• Project Team management, task allocation etc
   

• Project planning, scheduling, monitoring and control
   

• Process tailoring and process adherence
   

• Project communication & stakeholder involvement
   

• Configuration management
   

• Project Risk identification and management
   

• Project Issue management
   

• On–time and in–budget completion
   

• Managing the customer, Customer satisfaction survey
   

• Defect management
   

• Effective reviews
   

• Metrics program management
   

• Project Management reviews
   

• Process Improvement
   

• Project status reporting