Each project deals with the following elements:
- Overall project objective & goal
- A project leader / manager
- Individual tasks to be completed
- Timing of each task (time lines/dead lines)
- Process describing the tasks (how) and time dependencies
- Resource requirements (People, time, equipment, materials, supplies, cash)
- Overall budget
- Who is doing what, when and how?
- Who is receiveing the output of each task?
- The key objective of successful project management is to keep everything "on track" until the project is successfully completed.
- Every project team member and the management need at any time during the project to know the answer to the following questions:
- Who is doing What, When, How, resource requirements and expected end date for each task.
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- Project initiation & scoping (Face to face meeting, video conference or tele-conference between client and us)
- Identification and assignment of project team members including project manager
- Agreement on communication process and tools (face to face meetings, video conferencing, Skype, web-ex, tele-conferencing, e-mail or a combination of communication tools)
- Initial budget and overall time line
- Project manager and team memers develope high level project plan
- Project manager works out detailed task plan with individual project team memebers
- Detailed project plan communicated and agreed upon
- Start of project
- Continuous communication among all project team members
- Resolve conflicts, problems ASAP
- Completion of project
- Communication of final results to management and all project team members
- Post mortem ananlysis (what went right, what went wrong, how can we improve next time?
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