Regular project meetings are an essential communication tool for keeping everyone motivated and focused on the project’s objectives. Early detection of potential quality, schedule or cost issues are imperative to keeping the project on track and steadily moving it towards a successful completion. … [Read more...]
4. CONTROLLING
The primary goal of every project is a successful conclusion. If not controlled, the iterative nature of projects can lead to a false sense of progress and ever increasing levels of unnecessary detail. Project control must be imposed to ensure that the project is completed as planned and scheduled.
4.2 Analysing variances
Projects don’t always go exactly to plan, so it's important to constantly monitor the degree to which the agreed plan is being followed and to take appropriate action if the project looks like it’s going to slip significantly from the plan. Variance thresholds for time, cost, resource and … [Read more...]
4.3 Managing risks & issues
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Risk and issue management is undertaken to ensure that any event within the project environment, which has the potential to adversely affect the ability of the project to achieve its agreed objectives, is identified and documented, and mitigated or escalated as appropriate. Risks and issues should … [Read more...]
4.4 Managing changes to scope
Scope change management is concerned with identifying a potential scope change, influencing the factors that create scope changes to ensure they are beneficial to the project, and managing actual changes if and when they occur. New Scope Change Requests, which can be raised by any project … [Read more...]
4.5 Reporting project progress
It's important that the project management team encourages open and honest reporting of the project’s performance against current targets. The project may be lined up to succeed through good planning, but successful outcomes could be jeopardized if the team is afraid to report risks and issues. … [Read more...]