Project Management for the 21st Century, Third Edition
A modern, proven approach to project management that has the potential to supply structure, focus, and control to drive work to success.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Project Management for the 21st Century, Third Edition
Part II: Getting the Project Started Right
- Chapter 4: Project Definition
- Chapter 5: Setting Up a Project Plan
- Chapter 6: Being a Winning Project Leader
- Chapter 7: The Project Team
- Chapter 8: Using the Web and Intranets
In this chapter we shall focus on the what of the project how to establish the project. The next chapter will focus on the how. Chapters 6 and 7 address the who (the project manager and the project team). Later chapters address how.
A STEP-BY-STEP APPROACH FOR DEVELOPING THE PLAN
Technically, a project is composed of milestones and tasks or activities. Tasks and activities are units of work that lead to a milestone. A milestone is a tangible end product resulting from the task. Managerially, a project is a way to attain a short-term objective outside of the current functional or line organization. Using this second definition we would focus on the relationship between the management of the project and the management of functional areas. Merging these two definitions, a project is a set of interrelated tasks leading to the achievement of an overall objective or milestone. This achievement marks the end or completion of the project.
In defining a project we have to pay attention to both the management and technical facets. The method we will present here for defining the project reflects this. We will define the project as a series of 12 steps. Overall, these are shown in Table 4.1. At each step in the process, we have to go back and review the previous steps...
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