Understanding the Project Basics

Project Planning and Management Outline

1)    Understanding the basics

2)    Identifying projects

·        Analysis phase

·        Planning phase

3)    Project  report writing and Presentation

4)    Defining the Why and What.

5)    Create your project plan

 

6)    Manage delivery/ Project implementation

7)    Completing your project

8)    Project Monitoring and Evaluation

Understanding the Basics

Project management is full of jargon and concepts, many of which are unnecessary except for the largest and most complex of projects. However, there are some basic terminologies and some simple project concepts are helpful to understand aiding you to fulfill your obligation as a project manager.

There are some pieces of jargon that are easy to understand, none of which is complex, but by understanding them, you will have completed your first step in becoming a project manager.

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What is a project?

·         Essentially, a project is a task with a known end-point. Example: Building a house is a project, the end-point being when the house is built.

·         Usually, the term is applied to tasks with some dream of complexity. You may argue that preparing pizza is a project, the endpoint being pizza on the table. However the term is not applied to such simple activities, which do not need to be managed with the rigour of a recognized project.

·         Projects fulfill some clear pre-determined objectives, in a planned time and to a planned cost. Once the project is complete, something will have changed for example, you have a new house.

 

Summary

Characteristics of a project

a)      It is time-bound.

b)      Must have targets to achieve.

c)      Must have a budget.

 

What is project planning?

It is deciding what needs to happen in future and generating plans for action.

Project Management

Management operates through various functions often classified as planning, organizing, leading/ motivating and controlling.

Organizing Implementation 

Making optimum use of resources required to enable the successful carrying out of plans.

Staffing

Job analysis, recruitment and hiring individuals for appropriate jobs.

Leadership

Exhibiting skills in these areas for getting others to play an effective part in achieving plans i.e. to make individuals work willingly.

Controlling/Monitoring

Checking progress against plans which may need qualification based on feedback.

 

        Therefore, what is project management and your role?

Project management is a formal discipline for managing projects. Project management has been developed over the past decades as it has been packed apparent that without escorted approach, peoples are not good at completing projects successfully.

The aim of project management is to ensure that projects are completed and that the end-point is achieved.

More than this, project management is about reaching that endpoint predictably, which usually means to a given cost and within a planned amount of time.

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