Project manager is responsible for making a project happen on time, within budget, with required scope, and quality. I see project management is 5 steps, Initiation, Planning, Executing, Controlling and Closure. The middle 3 steps are required for every phase of the project this could be Planning development, Executing development, Controlling development in any type of project from IT to construction.

If you follow the ’science’ of Project Management i.e. what you’re told you should do then it would really be very tedious and delivery on time to budget questionable. However, mastering the art of project management i.e. what you actually need to do can make life much simpler and ensure that you are really managing a project rather than paper pushing.

The following are simple tasks that are required for manage a project using the art of Project management.

  • Initiation - Initiation Document
  • Planning - Project Plan, Risk Management, Issue List, Change Request Management
  • Executing – Let the experts get on with the job in hand i.e. let the developers do the development
  • Controlling - Stakeholder Reviews, Progress UpdatesClosure - Close-out Meeting, Service Level Agreements, Training Plans

Hopefully, this will be covered in more detail in the future.

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