Project Management Processes - from Rita Mulachy
Initiating Process
Planning Process
Executing process
- Select Project Manager
- Determine Company culture and existing systems
- Collect processes, procedures and historical info
- Divide large projects into phases
- Understand the business case
- Uncover initial requirements, assumptions and risks
- Assess project and product feasibility within the given constraints
- Create measurable objectives
- Develop project charter
- Identify stake holders
- Develop stake holder management strategy
Planning Process
- Determine how to do planning
- Determine detailed requirements
- Create project scope statement
- Assess what to purchase
- Determine team
- Create WBS & WBS dictionary
- Create activity list
- Create network diagram
- Estimate resource requirements
- Estimate time and cost
- Determine critical path
- Develop schedule
- Develop budget
- Determine quality standards, processes and metrics
- Create process improvement plan
- Determine all roles and responsibilities
- Plan communications
- Perform risk identification, qualitative and quantitative risk analysis, and risk response planning
- Go back iterations
- Prepare procurement documents
- Create change management plan
- Finalize the "how to execute and control" parts of all management plan
- Develop realistic and final PM pan & performance measurement baseline
- Gain forma approval of the plan
- Hold kick off meeting
Executing process
- Execute the work according to the Project Management plan
- Produce product deliverables (product scope)
- Request changes
- Implement only approved changes
- Continuously improve
- Follow Process
- Perform quality assurance
- Perform quality audits
- Acquire final team
- Manage people
- Evaluate team and project performance
- Hold team-building activities
- Give recognition and rewards
- Use Issue logs
- Facilitate conflict resolution
- Release resources as work is completed
- Send and receive info
- Hold meetings
- Select sellers
Monitoring and Controlling process
- Take action to control the project
- Measure performance against the performance measurement baseline
- Measure performance against other metrics
- Determine variances and if they want a corrective action or change request
- Influence the factors that cause changes
- Request changes
- Perform Integrated change control
- Approve or reject changes
- Inform Stakeholder of the result of change requests
- Update the Project Management plan and project documents
- Manage Configuration
- Create forecasts
- Gain acceptance of interim deliverable from customer
- Perform quality control
- Report on project performance and solicit feedback
- Perform risk assessments and audits
- Manage reserves
- Administer procurement
Closing process
- Confirm work is done to requirements
- Complete procurement closure
- Gain final acceptance of the product
- Complete final closure
- Hand off completed product
- Solicit feedback from the customers about the project
- Completing final performance report
- Index and Archive records
- Update lessons learned knowledge base
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