March 30, 2009
“What are the steps in the Project Life Cycle?”
The Project Life Cycle (otherwise known as the Project Management Life Cycle) is a process that you go through, to deliver a project from end to end. The steps taken to complete a project are as follows:
1) Initiate the Project by completing a Business Case, Feasibility Study and Project Charter. Then hire your team and appoint the contractors.
2) Plan the project by setting out all of the tasks that need to be undertaken to complete the project.
3) Execute the project by undertaking the tasks listed in your project plan.
4) Close your project by documenting the results, releasing staff, contractors and suppliers.
These generic steps apply to all types and sizes of projects, in all industries.
March 26, 2009
“What is a Project Methodology and why do I need one?
A Project Methodology is a series of documented steps that are undertaken to complete a project from end to end. It’s also known as a Project Life Cycle or Project Roadmap. The methodology steps you through what it is as a Project Manager that needs to be done, by whom and when. You need one if you want to standardize on the way you manage projects, to gain a greater level of efficiency. In other words, if you tackle projects in the same way every time, then soon enough you get extremely good at managing them and before you know it, the risk you incur with every new project reduces and you enjoy a greater level of project success from it.
March 23, 2009
“How would your Project Methodology benefit our Project Management Office?”
If you’re looking for a toolset to set up and run a Project Management Office, then this Project Methodology toolset would be perfect for you. In almost every Project Management Office, you need to promote a common set of standards and processes across the organization. We have included all of the methods and processes you need within our Project Methodology toolkit already, out of the box. You can also import any existing processes and add them to the processes contained, so that you can generate a suite of super-methodologies for your project organization.
March 19, 2009
“What is the difference between your solution and Project Management Software ?”
Good question. While you can download and install our Project Management Methodology on your PC, and while it functions as software, you wouldn’t really call it traditional Project Management Software. It’s more of a project methodology framework that allows you to create project management methodologies for your project teams. Whereas traditional Project Management Software actually tracks your projects and tells you whether they are on time or late. It helps you report on progress and it helps you manage risks issues and changes as they arise.
March 16, 2009
“Can you recommend Online Project Management Software for our business? We are a 100 person company, and we undertake projects internally, as well as for our clients.”
The best online project management software currently on the market is available from www.ProjectManager.com
The reason why it’s the best Project Management Software on the market is that it has a complete Project Scheduler which allows you to schedule tasks from start to finish. The scheduler provides a complete online Gantt chart that helps you enter tasks and then schedule their order, priority and end date. The software also helps you manage risks, issues, changes and resources. And it has a full document management system as well.
March 12, 2009
“I am a Project Management Consultant . How do I practically use your Project Management Methodology for managing my projects?”
As a Project Management Consultant, you will want to show your clients that you are managing their projects in a best practice fashion. The easiest way to do this is to create a customized methodology for each type of project you undertake. Add your clients branding to the methodology and change the terminology to suit their project base environment. Your customers will then be able to relate to the processes and methods you have created, and they gain a high degree of confidence in your project delivery capability.
March 5, 2009
“How do your Project Management Examples help me with projects?”
As a Project Manager, you never want to have to start from scratch. Most experienced Project Managers take what they have done before, and tweak it for their latest projects. However this takes a lot of time, because their last project and their new project are never the same. That’s where the Project Management Examples and templates come in handy. They have been written to suit all project types. And they step you through the process of completing every step in the Project Life Cycle, so that you know what you have to do, when and how. In short, they save you time creating project deliverables.
March 1, 2009
Q: How do I use Project Methodologies for life projects?
A: Usually, most large organizations have a small team of people within a “Project Management Office” who are responsible for managing the methodologies within the organization. These people are commonly referred to as the “Methodology Managers”. The are responsible for creating customized version of methodologies for use by live project teams. They export their methodologies from our toolset, into their intranet so that their teams of projects can use them real-time.
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