Project Management is both an art and a science that deals with the successful completion of projects.
Project management is the discipline of organizing and managing resources (e.g. people) in such a way that the project is completed within defined scope, quality, time and cost constraints. A project is a temporary and one-time endeavor undertaken to create a unique product or service, which brings about beneficial change or added value. This property of being a temporary and one-time undertaking contrasts with processes, or operations, which are permanent or semi-permanent ongoing functional work to create the same product or service over and over again. The management of these two systems is often very different and requires varying technical skills and philosophy, hence requiring the development of project management.
The first challenge of project management is to make sure that a project is delivered within defined constraints. The second, more ambitious challenge is the optimized allocation and integration of inputs needed to meet pre-defined objectives. A project is a carefully defined set of activities that use resources (money, people, materials, energy, space, provisions, communication, etc.) to meet the pre-defined objectives
In addition to the obvious, project management also requires communication skills that can help set and manage the expectations of all the people that will have any form of contact with the subject project.
The staff of Diamond Group are well established in the world of project management, having provided project management services for the likes of AT&T, MasterCard, NCR, Express Scripts, A.G. Edwards, Deutsche Bank, and many smaller local organizations. One of our projects earned for its sponsor, AT&T, the Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award.
Diamond Group is prepared to deliver project management services on behalf of either a vendor or a customer in the process of accomplishing a joint set of goals.